‘Technology Managing People’: An Urgent Agenda for Labour Law
本文聚焦人工智能技术被雇主用于管理员工（算法管理）这一常被忽视的影响，基于英国工会大会报告，分析其对工人的影响并提出保护工人利益的目标。
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is disrupting and transforming many aspects of society, including the organisation and performance of work.1 Much of the focus and debate regarding this transformation has so far been on the effect of automation on the availability of jobs and work.2 However, AI-based technologies are also increasingly being adopted by employers as a means of exercising their managerial functions and prerogative, a practice sometimes labelled ‘algorithmic management’.3 It is this second, often overlooked, impact of AI on the world of work that is the subject of the recently published Trades Union Congress’ (TUC) report, ‘Technology managing people, The worker experience’.4 The report aims to ‘raise awareness of management by AI-powered technologies’,5 considers the effect of these technologies on workers, and identifies objectives for ensuring that workers’ interests are not overlooked or harmed by these emerging practices. This article provides...