I let robot-trainers clean my apartment for free. It was unsettling, but I got over it.

Shift cleaners filmed my apartment to train robots. Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider I invited two cleaners and a chef from the startup Shift into my New York apartment. The workers cooked and cleaned for free — but recorded the process to train AI and robotics. Initially, I was nervous. I soon got used to the wires hanging from beneath their baseball caps. I let an AI startup film every inch of my apartment. That's a privacy nightmare — and yes, I did suitably hide all my personal items b...