SOCIETY EVENTS
PARTNER EVENTS June 30, 2026 12pm PDT
Ensuring safe use of robotic machinery to automate physical tasks has been a practice for decades. But what are the implications when companies use AI to automate mental tasks like strategic and analytical, planning and organizational tasks which historically lay outside the realm of process automation? In this session, Steven Hunt examines how AI affects job design and employee skills, highlights emerging health, safety, and well-being risks and opportunities, and clarifies the business value of keeping “humans in the loop” in an AI-saturated workplace. |
Webinar: Pro-worker AI: Designing AI that works for workers
July 14, 2026
12pm PDT
AI is rapidly transforming work, bringing both real opportunities and serious risks for worker health, safety, and well-being. Although AI can improve safety, automate hazardous tasks, expand accessibility, support training, and reduce some forms of cognitive or physical strain, it can also intensify work, erode autonomy, increase surveillance, create algorithmic insecurity, and deepen existing inequities.
In this session, Dr. Tahira Probst will argue that these outcomes are not technologically inevitable; they are shaped by concrete design and implementation choices. Drawing on established work-design and occupational health frameworks, she will introduce a practical lens for evaluating whether a given AI system is likely to support or undermine workers. Participants will leave with concrete questions and strategies they can use to assess AI systems in their own organizations and to advocate for worker-centered implementation.
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