Made in America: How AI is keeping this U.S. factory competitive
GE Appliances is deploying artificial intelligence tools in its U.S. manufacturing operations to improve product quality and production efficiency on the factory floor.
Why this matters: Factory AI stories usually get covered as economy news. They are also workplace surveillance stories. When a manufacturer puts AI on the floor to monitor quality and efficiency, it is also monitoring workers — their pace, their patterns, their mistakes. That data does not disappear after the shift ends. Workers rarely get to see it, contest it, or know how it affects them. The competitive gains are real. So is the question of who controls what the machines are actually watching.
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