Meet the AI Coworker That Snitches to Your Boss—and Never Stops Working

This tireless new AI automates work, tracks employees, and isn’t shy about flagging them to the boss.

BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC

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For the past two years, employee fears about their job security have risen as more companies adopted artificial intelligence (AI) tools to automate work tasks. Now, moves are afoot to not only broaden apps’ range of activity and productivity—and thereby increase their threats to employment—but also really annoying workers as they do so.

A glimpse into that future of both scary and irritating apps was offered in a Bloomberg report this week on specialized tech company Kuse AI. It’s currently shopping a new work automating agent it calls Junior to prospective business customers. Adopting users are paying $2,000 a month for the AI agent that more than a few staffers are likely wind up loathing, but employees will love. The reason? Think of employees as classroom students, managers as the teacher, and Junior as hard-working, 160 IQ pupil who also happens to be Nelly Olsen.

Or, as Bloomberg’s headline put it, “Meet the New AI Coworker Who Won’t Stop Snitching to Your Boss.”

Yes, in addition to taking over your work and potentially threaten your job, Junior can also tattle on you.

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Its OpenClaw-based design allows it to operate in concert with all the data and communications assets that businesses let it access. That provides the tool what Bloomberg called the “organizational memory it needs to know who does what and how colleagues are connected to each other.” That means what people are working on, how that activity compares to past performance, and which trio of workers probably shared a coffee at exactly 10:46 a.m. because their respective workflows went flat at once for six straight minutes.

In other words, employee-monitoring bossware is about to get a whole lot sharper-eyed, and possibly creepy. And let’s not forget obnoxious.Because not only can Junior keep tabs on what both its users and other staffers linked to shared communications networks are up to. It operates in a way that—as described by Bloomberg—may well exhaust the patience of even the most forbearing employees.

Want more? Junior even assigned its own dedicated phone number, email address, and Slack account. Let’s have a show of hands of readers who aren’t at already least a tad cheesed off, then watch those multiply immediately.

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