Justice with Jon Faine

The Brave New World of Work: AI is coming for your job, just not the way you expect. With Professor Alysia Blackham.

Justice with Jon Faine

Show Notes

Melbourne Law School and host Jon Faine bring you Justice: a weekly podcast about the law behind the news.

Artificial intelligence can be used as surveillance in the workplace, dislikes older workers and their resumes, and can be as biased against women and LGBTQI+ people as any human employer. Professor Alysia Blackham talks us through the new world of work

Read more of Alysia’s writings on this topic here: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/over-45-and-looking-for-a-job-ai-thinks-you-might-be-too-old

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/when-ai-gets-it-wrong-workers-suffer

https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwag013

https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/4805047/02-Blackham-62.pdf

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