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Data and privacy experts warned consumers to be wary of offering up their data - especially access to their homes
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Rory Mir, director of open access and tech community engagement at campaign group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said it has seen a "concerning increase in 'pay-for-privacy' and 'data-bribing' practices from companies".
Key facts
- You are not part of a reality TV show, and have not woken up in an Aldous Huxley or Margaret Atwood novel
- Instead, you are a resident of New York City, where AI companies are sending free cooking and cleaning staff straight to people's doors
- Bercan Kilic, Shift's founder, told the BBC the goal of the data-gathering exercise is "to advance humanity
- And Calli Schroeder, director of the AI and human rights programme at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic), said Shift's move was "a diabolically creative way to sell privacy invasion
Summary
Picture this: a team of camera-clad cleaners and a private chef to boot, all wired with high-tech recording apparatus show up at your home. You are not part of a reality TV show, and have not woken up in an Aldous Huxley or Margaret Atwood novel. Instead, you are a resident of New York City, where AI companies are sending free cooking and cleaning staff straight to people's doors. But, there is a catch: this AI company is gathering data to train the next generation of cooking and cleaning robots, and every inch of your apartment is now being recorded. The initiative, dubbed Shift by AI firm Micro AGI, is part of a growing number of companies developing the next generation of autonomous robots, which tech bosses hope will be able to do everything from the washing up to serving as live-in personal carers.