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Is your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work - video
According to the description, Ian Sample talks with the Guardian's UK technology editor Robert Booth about AI systems that give employers minute-by-minute accounts of worker activity and productivity, which sectors are adopting them, why, and how the approach could backfire.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
What it means for you
Workers may be tracked in far more detail than before, with AI summarising their activity moment by moment.
For lawmakers
Raises questions for labour and privacy rules about how much monitoring of employees is acceptable.
The question it raises
Asks what autonomy and trust at work mean when software watches every minute.
The record
- Questions
- What happens to work, income and the economy? · How is AI changing childhood, health and daily life?
- People
- Ian Sample (Speaks, Presenter) · Robert Booth (Speaks, UK technology editor, Guardian)
- What we read
- We have read only the description the publisher gives. No quotations until someone reads the source itself.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 16, 2026, via
the-guardian-ai(tier 2: a major outlet’s own reporting) - Cite this
- The Guardian, “Is your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work - video”, October 15, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/guardian-2026-10-15-ai-surveillance-at-work
Our notesLight lane: video not watched or transcribed; written from the published description.