8Privacy & surveillanceBelow the top 20
Workplace emotion recognition
AffordanceImpact domainBoth
Statement (NASA form)
Given that vendors already sell affect models to managers as ‘wellbeing’, there is a possibility of workers scored on faces and tone they cannot contest resulting in a new, unregulated personnel file that follows people between jobs.
Likelihood
3Probable
Consequence
2Minor
Urgency
2Planned
A feeling is not a performance metric. The product pretends it is.
Composite 8 = 3×2 + 2
Applicable mitigations
Controls · Pace rules: no irreversible action faster than a human can reconstruct it · A real off-ramp that still functions · Contract-first delegation with privilege attenuation · Duty of care on high-stakes delegates · Short-lived, narrowly scoped tokens for every tool call · Statutory independent safety function at designated labs