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A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices

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Re: A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices

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post #7

Should domestic workers not be surveilled while doing their job? I get the threat of pervasive AI but this hardly seems like it.

Forget domestic workers, shouldn't you be surveilled whenever you're alone and unattended?

When the panopticon is flipped inwards, everyone scrapes together an excuse for why their solitude is more important than others.

Re: A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices

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post #7

Should domestic workers not be surveilled while doing their job? I get the threat of pervasive AI but this hardly seems like it.

Somehow we've made it the vast majority of human history without it. Or at least surveillance that is generally not great. I would wager real money that there is going to be psychological effects of 100% accurate at all times complete surveillance of a person everywhere outside of their own homes (for now, I'm sure the time is coming for that as well)

Re: A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure that's a particularly difficult insight.

Eh, millions of households have a smart speaker that's constantly recording and I doubt that the majority of people that use one have truly internalized the ramifications of having such a device at home.

Can you spell out the ramifications for the plebs?

As far as I can tell home smart speakers are being used for warrantless mass surveillance, unlike Flock for example. Do you mean the possible future situation where they are?

Re: A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices

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post #7

Should domestic workers not be surveilled while doing their job? I get the threat of pervasive AI but this hardly seems like it.

That depends entirely on whether you want to culture a humane trust society or a transactional surveillance society.

Re: A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices

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post #7

Should domestic workers not be surveilled while doing their job? I get the threat of pervasive AI but this hardly seems like it.

No worker should be surveilled while doing their job. Only weak and insecure management would even consider something like that.

Re: A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices

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post #7

Should domestic workers not be surveilled while doing their job? I get the threat of pervasive AI but this hardly seems like it.

That depends entirely on whether you want to culture a humane trust society or a transactional surveillance society.

I think everyone wants a high trust society but you can't just remove all guardrails and expect that to be the result. The causality goes the other way.
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