The Rise of Emotional Surveillance(theatlantic.com)
theatlantic.com
The Rise of Emotional Surveillance
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/05/worker-surveillance-emotion-ai/687029/
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I found the part about monitoring call center employees' stress levels and then showing them montages of their family to calm them down to be particularly interesting as a solution. https://www.americanbanker.com/news/the-ai-bringing-zen-to-f...
This is Homer's "You are here forever" where Homer covers some letters with Maggie's pictures to spell "Do it for her". Except this dystopia uses the family pictures to spell "You are here forever"
I'd be fucked
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