"As though exercising my corporeal form wasn't trial enough, now robots? Who in their right mind would want a walking, talking surveillance machine inside their home? The privacy invasion required for such robots to function goes far beyond your smart speaker listening into your conversations, your automatic pet feeder capturing footage, or your Roomba mapping the inside of your home and sharing it with Amazon."
"Tech companies all too often (misleadingly) promote their latest product to be far more intelligent than it actually is, all the while relying upon a team of invisible workers behaving like machines to make the device appear to function. For example, self driving cars such as Amazon's robotaxi service depend on a team of human workers to remotely drive the car when they struggle to drive themselves."
Daytime television displays muted headlines about war, pandemic, and disaster while promoting consumer products. A humanoid robot called NEO is presented as a household assistant, with a soft grey body, blank face, and small camera eyes. The robot requires intrusive sensors and cameras and uses an expert mode that allows remote employees to see inside homes and control the robot via VR headsets. Many automation products are portrayed as more capable than they are while relying on invisible human workers to make them function. Examples include remote human operators for robotaxi services and historical hoaxes like the Mechanical Turk.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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