Research Briefing: Ethical Use of AI in the Workplace – the AI WHS Scorecard

Integrated within the AI WHS Scorecard are the principles of the ethical use of AI from the Australian Government endorsed AI Ethics Principles, together with Safe Work Australia’s WHS concepts of hazards and risks. [...] The AI WHS Scorecard, together with an accompanying Protocol explaining its context and recommending how it may be used, supports the understanding of potential risks and hazards to workers, and supplies auditable resources for assessing and mitigating WHS risks in using AI in the workplace when making decisions during the process of introducing AI in the workplace. [...] As well, it means AI Research Briefing: Ethical Use of AI in the Workplace – the AI WHS Scorecard capabilities are starting to take over from traditional managerial tasks, and the consultations highlighted concerns that AI tools might create barriers between workers and managers. [...] Evidence for these aspects came from consultations with representatives from organisations using or planning to use AI who had been asked to consider WHS management practices, and the utility of the proposed risk assessment tool, the AI WHS Scorecard; as well as consultations with WHS inspectors to collect feedback on the scorecard from a WHS practitioners’ perspective. [...] The approach taken by the AI WHS Scorecard is to formulate the potential consequences of AI use for WHS from both the perspective of workers and that of an organisation and its ability to perform its core service.