A federal parliamentary inquiry will consider the implications of the "rapid uptake" of automated decision-making and machine learning on the workplace, after a request from Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.
The ILO says AI-related workplace automation will disproportionately affect women, and the resulting job losses could threaten the increasing participation of females in the labour market.
Employers that restructure to take advantage of artificial intelligence would be "responsible" for reskilling their workforces to avoid unnecessary redundancies, under a policy to be considered by this week's ALP national conference.
The Federal Government needs to urgently reform anti-discrimination laws to address biases embedded in algorithmic hiring systems that often work against the interests of women, people of colour and people with disabilities, according to a university researcher.
The federal government body charged with reviewing contested public service promotions has blamed an artificial-intelligence recruitment process for a spike in overturned decisions.
Former Workplace Gender Equality Agency director Libby Lyons has called for "radical changes" to stamp out unfairness in the Fair Work Act, ditch gendered terms and discriminatory clauses in agreements and stop stereotyping women as caregivers.
As artificial intelligence-based systems for recruitment and selection of employees have moved from the "periphery" to "centre stage" in the past decade, their largely unregulated and poorly understood use has given rise to transparency issues and discrimination risks, according to a leading IR academic.
