Worker protection laws aren't ready for the automated future of work

All that automation yields data that can be used to analyze workers' performance. Those analyses, whether done by humans or software programs, may affect who is hired, fired, promoted, and given raises. Some artificial intelligence programs can mine and manipulate the data to predict future actions, such as who is likely to quit their job, or to diagnose medical conditions. If your job doesn't currently involve these types of technologies, it likely will in the very near future. This worries me me--a labor and employment law scholar who researches the role of technology in the workplace--because unless significant changes are made to American workplace laws, these sorts of surveillance and privacy invasions will be perfectly legal.