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Co-op Legal Services using AI to rate workers’ phone calls to customers

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Co-op Legal Services is implementing an AI system to monitor and score employee phone calls with customers, a move criticized as AI

IMPACT AI-driven workplace surveillance raises concerns about employee stress and privacy, prompting union pushback and calls for regulatory frameworks.

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Co-op Legal Services using AI to rate workers’ phone calls to customers

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  1. The Guardian — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Robert Booth UK technology editor ·

    Co-op Legal Services using AI to rate workers’ phone calls to customers

    <p>Whistleblower says recording and analysis of all probate calls is ‘oppressive and dystopian’</p><p>The Co-op has become the latest employer to place workers under AI surveillance with an automated listening technology that rates every phone call some of them make to customers.…