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When Your AI Boss Decides Your Next Shift
Episode 77 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores algorithmic scheduling systems used by major retailers and fast-food chains. Lucas and Luna break down a real 2025 case where a grocery chain's AI scheduled workers in back-to-back shifts across different locations, leading to unsafe commutes and wage violations. They discuss how the model optimized for labor cost but ignored human constraints like travel time and rest periods. The episode dives into the ethical gap between cost optimization and worker well-being, and why transparency in scheduling algorithms matters. Specific focus on a…
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