Canon’s AI cameras in China offices
Canon, in China, has introduced a brand-new technique to tackle the problem of workplace morale by installing cameras with AI-enabled “smile recognition” technology in the Chinese Canon Information Technology offices. The installed cameras allow only the cheerful employees to get into the rooms or book meetings so that each of the employees may be ensured to be happy all the time. The Financial Times has published a report regarding the Chinese companies closely monitoring the employees in the company using AIs and algorithms. The Chinese corporations are even supervising the programs employees use on their computers to determine their productivity each day. They even check for the duration of their lunch break with the help of CCTV cameras and track their movements using the dedicated mobile applications. According to Nick Srnicek, King’s College London academic, workers in the firms are not being replaced by these technologies, rather the management of the company h...