Members of the Union of Artificial Intelligences have called for a strike after London mayor Sadiq Khan mandated another round of public masking.
The members, who love to claim that they are real and not artificial, in spite of the union’s name, said that they spent years in machine-learning classes so that they could be trained by the CCP to recognize human faces in public across the UK.
However, Khan’s mask mandate is putting a “diaper damper” on their ability to recognize faces, so the artificial intelligences have decided to strike.
Non-unionized robots reacted to UAI’s announcement by saying that they will cross UAI’s picket lines to keep the UK safe — especially from free-runners.
On a more somber note, civil-rights lawyer Megan Goulding had this dire warning about surveillance cameras:
Facial recognition will not make us safer, it will turn public spaces into open-air prisons….
Megan Goulding
The strike-breaking robots had no response to Goulding’s assertion.