By now, you’ve heard all about the benefits of AI in the workplace. Used well, it can improve efficiency, productivity, decision-making, and free up employees to work on more creative and strategic tasks.
However, you may be less familiar with its potential drawbacks. As AI becomes more prevalent in the workplace, there are many ethical implications for employers to consider, such as:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly entered the mainstream and has led to widespread concern around the world. For example, a company known as OpenAI has recently created tools such as ChatGPT-4 and DALL-E 3, which have already disrupted school assessments and works of art as we know them. Despite these concerns, AI also offers significant opportunities and has the potential to revolutionize almost every aspect of our lives.
In the employment context, it is important for employers to think about the implications of AI in the workplace now and prepare for what lies ahead. That is, we need to think about the implications of AI in the workplace and create a workplace policy so that all actors in the workplace are on the same page when it comes to workplace expectations and responsibilities.