What if employers could gauge the ‘moods’ of workers? A dangerous new tech gains ground in India

The thing is though, I don't see how someone like this could even work out.

Like, you hire employee 1, they get frustrated at something overnight. You fire them for being upset. Now you have to fill the seat. Employee 2 is brought on. They get told what happened to the person they replaced. They leave or are fired for having emotion and being human. This repeats ad nauseum.

Seriously. Why are people choosing to work for these companies? There are other ways to make a buck. Have some fucking morals.

At a certain point, not just the companies doing this are to blame but the people working for them as well. Who tf can support this kind of thing? People need to have some self fucking respect.

For example we could probably have the cure for cancer right by now if they spent half the effort on it as they did making unbeatable thc drug tests for example. It's clear where society's priorities are. Improving lives does not generate profit.

There are uses for it. They can track the average mood of an entire room over a period of time. If you use that somewhere like a restaurant, or a banquet venue, then that information can be useful for tweaking the policies, environment, prices, etc. Of course an actual human could do this too, just by being there. I think it'll get the most use at places like casinos where they're always using psychological tricks to make people want to gamble. Ironically I don't think that "happy" is the mood they'll be aiming for.

Is mood recognition a tool useful for anything other than maintaining power over others (actually curious)?

If you ever want a real General AI then it will need the ability to recognize the mood of the person it's interacting with. ESPECIALLY if you want to use it for things like Mental Health Counseling.

You can to an extent, but that's a losing venture. If pubic opinion goes against this tech hard enough, it'll keep some people from working in those industries. BUT if those products are profitable enough, they will simply pay more and that'll be moot.

Attacking the people who are earning a living isn't the answer. Most people take the job with the best combo of pay and work/life balance they can find in their area, or if they can afford to move. Not that many have the luxury to pick and choose based on their morality. And if compensation is high enough, it's a lot less likely.

It's far easier to try to prevent this tech from being used at all. I know political action is hard as hell but it's a lot easier than trying to ostracize an entire industry's worth of workers. It may feel easier to denigrate faceless individuals but that won't accomplish anything. Plenty of people work for weapons manufacturers and such.

What's crazy is that this was already fully functional and in-use at least 8 years ago. Idk how this has stayed out of the headlines until now. Microsoft had a working demo of this in their visitor center in 2015 and was already using it in multiple places. As soon as you enter the room it assigns you a persistent ID, estimates your height, weight, eye color, hair color, and age. Then it tracks your mood and the overall mood of the room continuously. The ID can be persistent across any number of linked locations. They don't ask for anyone's permission before using it.

Sounds like you are fighting on behalf of the whole world. I hope you get some times with yourself or a smaller circle that are positive and a break from the dumpster fires of modern civilization.