AI Workers' Inquiry 2026
5 hours ago
- AI in the tech sector largely intensifies and redistributes work rather than removing it, increasing output expectations, monitoring, and deskilling while shifting accountability.
- Workers report negative impacts such as degraded job satisfaction, downskilling, unfair surveillance tied to promotion/discipline, environmental and ethical harms, and increased workload without consultation.
- Policy proposals include a new regulatory authority, protection of junior learning pathways, a right to refuse AI use without penalty, mandatory transparency and collective bargaining, and updated health and safety laws.
- The core demand is that workers must have enforceable control and the final say over how AI is introduced and used at work.