AI tools can also be used to track worker performance, sometimes making automated decisions to effectively fire employees.
The TUC warns AI could "set unrealistic targets that then result in workers being put in dangerous situations that impact negatively on their both physical health and mental well being".
Some employers require workers to carry devices which record data about their activity which can then be analysed. One warehouse worker told AI policy campaigners Connected by Data that it meant that if they took too many toilet breaks it would be flagged and they would have to explain why they weren't working.