You make a good point: advanced surveillance tools are more likely to be a problem for people living under autocracies. Without markets principally driving the measure of employee competency, submitting to strict social norms shows that you’re not going to rock the (autocratic) boat too much. So for those people, it’s even more important to regulate their social presence. E.g., the Communist Bloc in the 20th century; any society described in a Kafka novel.
I agree that human intervention in hiring is not the most likely outcome in market-based economies. But, I did follow that example by saying:
These two examples presuppose that humans will always be the ones initiating employment discrimination. But with AI increasingly taking an active role in hiring, algorithms could make decisions on their own without humans ever directly being involved.
So in market-based economies, I contend that we have more to fear from algorithmic, non-human hiring decisions.
You make a good point: advanced surveillance tools are more likely to be a problem for people living under autocracies. Without markets principally driving the measure of employee competency, submitting to strict social norms shows that you’re not going to rock the (autocratic) boat too much. So for those people, it’s even more important to regulate their social presence. E.g., the Communist Bloc in the 20th century; any society described in a Kafka novel.
I agree that human intervention in hiring is not the most likely outcome in market-based economies. But, I did follow that example by saying:
So in market-based economies, I contend that we have more to fear from algorithmic, non-human hiring decisions.