An attorney specializing in employment law discusses artificial intelligence and noncompetes.
Companies are increasingly using generative (AI) to guide , including analyzing workforce data to identify redundancies and potential layoffs, with some reports indicating the technology was used behind the scenes in recent job cuts at Verizon. While AI is disrupting industries such as technology by automating coding and other tasks, experts say health care remains relatively insulated because it is largely patient-facing and dependent on human interaction. Christopher S. Mayer, JD, an employment law specialist with the firm , introduces an emerging area of employment law.
Medical Economics: Can you describe the current workplace or workforce situation around adoption of artificial intelligence and businesses laying off employees, especially how they're maybe using artificial intelligence to guide human resources decisions?
Christopher S. Mayer, J.D.: We're starting to all see it on two fronts, really. And the first front is that AI, generative AI primarily, is now being used by players to make employment-related decisions. So they will feed their workforce factors into AI and try to determine, using AI and the algorithms in AI, to determine who should be eliminated, what jobs are redundant, can be replaced. So we're seeing that more and more and a lot of that's going on behind the scenes, but it does leak out from companies that have used AI for these purposes. And Verizon is...
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