The impact of artificial intelligence
(AI) systems on the labour market will be a focus of the Italian
G7 presidency in 2024, Labour Minister Marina Calderone said on
Monday.
"I am pleased to pre-announce that the topic of the impact of
artificial intelligence on our labour markets will be among
those we intend to focus on during the Italian G7 presidency
next year," said Calderone during the EU employment and social
policy council meeting in Luxembourg.
It is necessary, added the minister, to "continue to carefully
monitor the development of automated systems and to be prepared
to take new coordinated initiatives at European level and with
our partners, also anticipating displacement effects".
"In this perspective, social dialogue can and must play an
important role on issues such as continuous training, countering
deskilling and job upgrading," she continued, adding that it
will be necessary to update the instruments of the European
Semester, the tool used at European level to monitor national
progress on economic and fiscal policies, "to take into account
the new challenges, paying more attention to the quality of
working conditions and workers' welfare, but also to avoid new
forms of discrimination".
"In general, we need global governance mechanisms that are
capable of ensuring that these technologies respect ethical
barriers," concluded Calderone.
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