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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Anuj Behal

‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI

Two women wearing face masks and head-mounted cameras work at a table sorting packaged red items in a factory
Workers wear cameras that record their movements and interactions at a factory in Karur district, Tamil Nadu. Photograph: R Satish Babu/AFP/Getty Images

The first time the factory supervisors handed garment worker Lalita* a head-mounted camera, she burst out laughing. “The way people mount a CCTV camera on a wall, they mounted one on us,” she says.

The 32-year-old had been working at the garment factory on the outskirts of Delhi for nearly a year when management asked workers on her line to strap small cameras to their foreheads before starting their shifts. Nobody explained why.

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