Teachers at Euan Blair’s £1.6bn tech training company, Multiverse, have blown the whistle about “horrendous stress” and feeling constantly watched after executives started using AI models to surveil and rate their teaching.
Multiverse was co-founded by the eldest son of the former prime minister Tony Blair and employs more than 800 people.
Its new AI teacher monitoring system tags each instructor by their “risk status”, calculates a “percentage confidence score” and produces written comments about teachers’ work for managers to see at a glance.
The United Tech and Allied Workers branch of the Communication Workers Union concluded AI causes “cognitive surrender” as workers lose skills and confidence and often intensifies rather than eases work.
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Multiverse was co-founded by the eldest son of the former prime minister Tony Blair and employs more than 800 people.
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Instructors at tech training company Multiverse criticized at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system.
Teachers at Euan Blair’s £1.6bn tech training company, Multiverse, have blown the whistle about “horrendous stress” and feeling constantly watched after executives started using AI models to surveil and rate their teaching.
Teachers called the newly introduced system “remorseless” and “unnerving”, and said some staff were on edge, losing sleep and seeking therapy.
Multiverse was co-founded by the eldest son of the former prime minister Tony Blair and employs more than 800 people.
Alongside his father, Blair is a supporter of wider AI adoption in the UK economy, claiming last week that “every single worker is going to need to be retrained” and that employers want their workforces “as AI-pilled as possible”.
Its new AI teacher monitoring system tags each instructor by their “risk status”, calculates a “percentage confidence score” and produces written comments about teachers’ work for managers to see at a glance.
Earlier this year Burger King started using AI to track restaurant workers’ customer interactions and this summer Meta paused tracking of workers’ computer keystrokes amid data privacy concerns and a staff opposition.
With critics warning AI monitoring risks eroding human agency, one study has said it can backfire by turning workers rebellious and new research to be published this week reports that workers in the wider UK tech industry are finding AI degrades work satisfaction. The United Tech and Allied Workers branch of the Communication Workers Union concluded AI causes “cognitive surrender” as workers lose skills and confidence and often intensifies rather than eases work.
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