In November 2021 the All-Party Parliamentary Group ("APPG") on the Future of Work ("Future of Work") published its report titled "The New Frontier: Artificial Intelligence at Work" (the "Report"). The Report follows the National AI Strategy (the "Strategy") released by the government in September and sets out to identify and resolve challenges posed by artificial intelligence ("AI") in the workplace through the development of a new regulatory framework. Whilst the proposed framework addresses AI in the workforce, we consider some of the principles could be applied across all sectors. The recommendations made by the Future of Work inform the wider debate about AI governance and regulation as part of the Strategy. APPGs are informal cross-party groups that have no official status in Parliament but are run by and for Members of the Commons and Lords, bringing together parliamentarians, industry and civil society. There is an Artificial Intelligence APPG, but the author of the Report is the Future of Work, an APPG which aims to "foster understanding of the challenges and opportunities of technology and the future of work".

Monitoring of workers and setting performance targets through algorithms is damaging employees' mental health and needs to be controlled by new legislation, according to a group of MPs and peers. An "accountability for algorithms act'" would ensure that companies evaluate the effect of performance-driven regimes such as queue monitoring in supermarkets or deliveries-per-hour guidelines for delivery drivers, said the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on the future of work. "Pervasive monitoring and target-setting technologies, in particular, are associated with pronounced negative impacts on mental and physical wellbeing as workers experience the extreme pressure of constant, real-time micro-management and automated assessment," said the APPG members in their report, the New Frontier: Artificial Intelligence at Work. The report recommends bringing in a new algorithms act, which it says would establish "a clear direction to ensure AI puts people first". It warns that "use of algorithmic surveillance, management and monitoring technologies that undertake new advisory functions, as well as traditional ones, has significantly increased during the pandemic".