'This is a shocking revelation': Amazon accused of deploying 'Orwellian' AI-powered union activity surveillance system at sites in Canada, the UK, and around the world
- Amazon has reportedly been using an AI-powered algorithm to monitor union activity at sites around the world
- The system records data from on-site and through external forums such as Reddit
- Two sites in the UK were recorded at the highest risk level for union activity, raising questions over the legality of the AI algorithm
Amazon has been embroiled in a legal dispute over unionization at a warehouse just outside of Vancouver, and while that may not sound particularly significant, it has forced the company to turn over documentation to the British Columbia Labour Board and Unifor.
These documents have revealed that Amazon has deployed an AI-powered union activity detection algorithm to assess whether its workers at warehouses around the world are at risk of unionizing.
This AI algorithm - named Atlas within the documentation - uses hundreds of data points to place warehouses on a unionization risk scale. These data...
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