Teachers at Euan Blair firm report 'horrendous stress' after AI used to rate their work

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Euan Blair co-founded Multiverse, which supplies AI and digital skills training to workers in the NHS, local councils, universities and the private sector. Euan Blair co-founded Multiverse, which supplies AI and digital skills training to workers in the NHS, local councils, universities and the private sector. Teachers at Euan Blair firm report'horrendous stress' after AI used to rate their work Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at'remorseless' and'unnerving' monitoring system Teachers at Euan Blair's £1.6bn tech training company, Multiverse, have blown the whistle about "horrendous stress" and feeling constantly watched after bosses started using AI models to surveil and rate their teaching. Staff delivering apprenticeship training in computer and AI skills to thousands of UK public and private sector workers now have transcripts of online classroom sessions analysed and scored by an AI programmed to alert human managers when they are suspected of doing things wrong. The AI is trained to flag problems in their performance ranging from not fixing a disruption to the online connection quickly enough - within about a minute - to using too many "filler" phrases, such as "sort of" and "kind of".