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JAMES WALSH is appalled by the implications of introducing AI to the workplace 
The Metropolitan Police deploying the use of live facial recognition technology in Croydon, south London, February 9, 2024.

The Algorithm: How AI Can Hijack Your Career And Steal Your Future
Hilke Schellmann, Hurst, £22

A FRIEND of mine once wrote a sketch about a management training guru, who claimed to have invented a tool that can tell “whether you’re a blue, a green, a red or... a dickhead.” Compared to the products and procedures documented in Hilke Schellmann’s The Algorithm: How AI can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future, the dickhead test is positively scientific.

 

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