How will artificial intelligence change the way we work? There’s good and bad news Commentary Workplace accidents caused by malfunctioning robots grab the bulk of the headlines, but the greater risk may be related to recruitment and worker surveillance, writes Colin Gavaghan, director of the Centre for Law and Policy in Emerging Technologies Until recently, a question such as that in the headline has led immediately to discussions about how many jobs will be lost to the technological revolution of artificial intelligence. Over the past few years, though, more of us have started looking at some other aspects of this question. Such as: for those of us still in work, how will things change? What will it be like to work alongside, or under, AI and robots? Or to have decisions about whether we’re hired, fired or promoted made by algorithms?