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Your boss is watching you: Workplace surveillance is on the rise, spurred by AI

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Ready for a Whopper with a side of Orwell? Earlier this year, Burger King announced the rollout of Patty, an AI chatbot embedded in headsets that tracks if cashiers neglect to say please and thank you and chimes in when a soda fountain is running low.

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    Ready for a Whopper with a side of Orwell? Earlier this year, Burger King announced the rollout of Patty, an AI chatbot embedded in headsets that tracks if cashiers neglect to say please and thank you and chimes in when a soda fountain is running low.

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