BBC: Why an AI company cleaned my New York City apartment for free

“And Calli Schroeder, director of the AI and human rights programme at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic), said Shift’s move was ‘a diabolically creative way to sell privacy invasion'”.

“She said the technology being developed off the back of the data being collected could one day leave cleaners out of work. And she warned that even the benefit of a free apartment cleaning is ‘a pittance’ compared to the potential profit that could be made compiling and selling valuable datasets.”

“‘I think people wildly underestimate the level of sensitive information that in-home recordings would pick up,'” she said.”

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