#UCL has just adopted a new AI-driven lecture recording system. It's called Panopto. No doubt the name will have biased the decision. After all, our Patron Auto-Icon and Mascot Jeremy #Bentham (still present but not voting) is the one who dreamed up the #panopticon
I'll bet good money that people have forgotten that the Panopticon was Bentham's ideal prison; a utopian prison where a single warder could watch all the inmates without them knowing.
A metaphor for these complex times.
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