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Is your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work – podcast
According to the episode description, Ian Sample talks to Guardian UK technology editor Robert Booth about AI-based workplace monitoring that builds minute-by-minute accounts of activity and productivity, which sectors adopt it, why, and how it could backfire. We could not read the audio.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
What it means for you
Employers may use AI to track what workers do minute by minute, not just their output targets.
For lawmakers
Raises the question of what limits on employee monitoring regulators should set.
The record
- Questions
- What happens to work, income and the economy?
- People
- Ian Sample (Speaks) · Robert Booth (Speaks, UK technology editor, The 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 15, 2026, via
the-guardian-ai(tier 2: a major outlet’s own reporting) - Cite this
- The Guardian (Science Weekly), “Is your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work – podcast”, October 15, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/guardian-2026-10-15-ai-surveillance-at-work-podcast
Our notesOnly the episode description was available; no transcript on the page. The page also links a separate story about teachers at an Euan Blair firm, not read.