Basically, it will be harder to hide illegal and unethical stuff companies routinely engage in.
I have a friend who works at a large-ish company that imports and manufactures things (in one of the clerical/quantitative professions). A few years back, they had the IT department go on a kind of "inquisition", wherein they forced employees to disable the summarization function that came with MS Teams, and threatened to fire them if they did not. The resistance to this demand was surprising -- most people are clueless about the cost of their own convenience. Worst of all, people would zone out of meetings, because the AI was producing summaries, which they would then never read.
The effect of the technology was that it made meetings infinitely more expensive, because the supposed benefit of meetings was nullified by complacency, _and_ it made the meetings a liability (incorrectly summarized meetings, that could be used in the discovery process, sure, but could also be sold by MSFT as a kind of market-research-data to competitors in the space).
Nothing illegal has to happen in these meetings at all, for this tech to cause an infinity of problems for the corporation. Every employee that uses these is effectively an unwitting spy. And if that is the case, then the meetings might as well be recorded and uploaded to YouTube (or whatever people watch these days)[1].
[1]: Maybe this is the future. Which I am okay with, but only if the entire planet has to do it, and the penalties for not doing it are irrecoverably severe.
Be careful what you wish for. Particularly when it involves tech that often gets it very, very wrong.
It is true accusation and potential for success of it.
The only question is whether everyone gets a slice, or it ends up locked down so only governments and corporations have access to it. Obivously I come down on the sousveillence side of the fence - it's the lesser of two evils. If it exists I want everyone to have it, and you can't stop it existing.
Modernized. Industrial AI scale.
I’ll be honest, this is something that I hope AI note taking tools capture and incorporate into summaries of the company’s status. Especially if they act as an intermediary without revealing the specific person who said it. There’s a lot of information latent within organizations that doesn’t get properly shared due to concerns of retaliation or simply embarrassment that would benefit everyone by being communicated sooner.
Maybe some smaller shops are not like this, but the bigger your company is, the more you'll find this type of thinking to persist.
In theory, I do like your idea - anonymously cascading feedback upstream. I just see no avenue for this to succeed in practice.
"It seems that starting in 2025 one of your employees began spreading many bigly unfair and hateful lies about Dear Leader in team meetings. We at the Department of Truth would hate to see your operating license revoked for encouraging such unpatriotic behavior..."