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The Price of Free Domestic Help: Micro AGI’s Privacy Trade-Off

The artificial intelligence startup Micro AGI is offering free home cleaning in New York under its Shift project, provided that residents allow workers to record their homes. The cleaners wear cap-mounted cameras to gather video data, which founder Bercan Kilic plans to use for training autonomous domestic robots. However, digital rights advocates from organisations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation warn that this practice constitutes data-bribing. They caution that consumers are sacrificing their long-term privacy for temporary convenience, potentially exposing intimate personal details to other corporations or government surveillance.

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