Critical Questions for AI at Work: Law vs. Industry

Unfortunately, this event is cancelled due to illness.

Event overview

In this Department of Management Special Research Event on Artificial Intelligence, Professor Phoebe V. Moore (University of Essex) will talk about her long-standing work on legal aspects in compliance and AI deployment, from a labour purview. 

Her findings show that EU policymakers, civil society, and industry sit in stalemate in legislation for AI and machinery. Attempts from the official technical standards machine to fully incorporate fundamental human rights are failing, despite the Charter’s existing mandate and the European Commission’s requests.

The EU Omnibus proposes to simplify processes for providers to progress the most complex technology of our time. However, self-evolving AI deployments, without due diligence risks turning entire populations into testing beds, where the most vulnerable will be first victimised.

The areas of ‘risk categorisation’, ‘proportionality’ and ‘consultation’ in both data and AI laws currently have no external coherence nor assurance for social dialogue. Moore argues that the conditions of ‘uncertainty’ within which law and policies are being pushed through now, do not provide sufficient remedies nor protections.

Many solutions already exist in industrial relations and labour law, which Professor Moore revisits, to advocate for workers’ and universal human rights.

The event will consist of a 50-minute presentation, followed by a Q&A session.

Professor Moore's Biography

Professor Phoebe V. Moore (PhD, MA, FHEA) works as Professor of Management & the Futures of Work, University of Essex, within the Management & Marketing group within Essex Business School (EBS), Colchester, England (2022 - present).

Her PhD is from University of Nottingham, her MA from the International University of Japan (Niigata), and her BA from University of Texas at Austin.

Professor Moore is a transdisciplinary researcher who has written about and been most active in business and policy studies, with a grounding in the social sciences of work.