AI Workers' Inquiry 2026
Summary
Executive Summary outlines AI as a largely negative force in the workplace, detailing increased output expectations, monitoring, deskilling, and power shifts. It emphasizes that benefits depend on workers' ability to decide how to engage with AI, and calls for enforceable rights and a regulatory framework to ensure accountability. The report also outlines policy directions—from a new AI-at-work regulatory authority to rights to refuse, environmental safeguards, and health and safety measures.