{"id":570,"date":"2026-05-11T11:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:42:21","slug":"forget-the-ai-job-apocalypse-ais-real-threat-is-worker-control-and-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI\u2019s real threat is worker control and surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by it<\/p>\n<p>The real danger that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> poses to work is not just job loss \u2013 it is the growing divide between people who use AI to extend their skills and those whose working lives are increasingly shaped by opaque, AI-powered systems of surveillance and control.<\/p>\n<p>The debate about artificial intelligence and how it will affect workers is stuck in the wrong place. On one side are warnings that machines are coming for millions of jobs. On the other are claims that AI will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/14\/ai-productivity-workplace-errors\">turbocharge productivity<\/a>. Both stories miss what is already happening in workplaces across the world, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/26\/workers-training-ai-to-do-their-jobs\">Britain<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back\/\">Kenya<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/21\/healthcare-nurses-gig-work-ai-apps\">United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/11\/ai-worker-control-surveillance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}