The potential update on the protection of workers through the AI Act

In this #5 post of the Symposium "Hitchhikers Guide to Law & Tech", we continue analyzing the EU's Digital Strategy and the intersection between law and tech. The EU's proposed AI Act, if adopted, has the potential to modify the existing legal framework for the protection of workers, faced with an increasing prevalence of AI technologies. This blogpost presents an outline of the significant legal scrutiny and numerous safeguards most workers' data collection and processing activities would need to meet, as falling within the scope of high-risk AI systems. This is accompanied by a brief reflection on the challenges ahead, and the path forward that needs to be followed for the desired results to be achieved. The software techniques that qualify as AI systems within the proposed AI Act are very extensive in their scope.