From sprawling personal grievances to confidential company information being fed into open AI tools, employment lawyer Rosemary Wooders says artificial intelligence is creating new risks across the workplace.
WATCH AND READ: The use of artificial intelligence in employment disputes has soared in the past year, threatening to clog up courts and risking leaks of confidential information, an employment law expert says.
Bell Gully partner Rosemary Wooders says AI is now embedded across the employment relationship from hiring through to disputes.
She says employers need to ensure that they have up to date policies in the workplace that deal with fast-changing technology and they should make the rules around AI use clear to employees.
Wooders tells Newsroom that before people started using AI, personal grievance letters tended to be relatively short in length and took some time to prepare, along with court documents.
AI has sped up the process exponentially and the paperwork is many times greater, she says.
Employees also need to be aware of AI’s tendency to produce overly favourable documents and make unrealistic recommendations to the user.
Wooders also warns that AI-related issues are emerging in other areas of the workplace relationship.
She says there are cases where workers have been unwittingly feeding confidential information into open AI which could end up in the wrong hands.
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