IoT sensors can modify human behavior as easily as device behavior

Evidence

Sensors are used to modify people’s behavior just as easily as they modify device behavior. There are many great things we can do with the internet of things, like lowering the heat in all the houses on your street so that the transformer is not overloaded, or optimizing an entire industrial operation. But at the individual level, it also means the power to take actions that can override what you are doing or even put you on a path you did not choose. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 917

Categorization

• SEED: The benign-example-then-dystopian-turn structure is exactly the framing pattern for an article on smart-home/street systems and the thin line between optimization and coercion.
• XREF: connects to: The Internet of Things extends capital extraction into post-purchase consumption — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 49; Programming perception through technical devices leads to programming behavior — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 210; AI interactions can influence human emotional responses and behaviors. — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 583 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• AI interactions can influence human emotional responses and behaviors. #expands (0.85) — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 583