AI · WORK · PREVENTION
Independent guidance for understanding how AI systems transform work, and how to anticipate their effects on health.
01 — THE PROBLEM
Artificial intelligence can change tasks, deadlines, room for judgement, responsibilities and skills, with possible effects on occupational health.
These effects depend not only on technical performance, but on how a system is deployed, controlled and discussed. Prevention therefore means examining real work before deployment and after use begins: cognitive load, autonomy, surveillance, work quality, collective work and health. This concerns employers, worker representatives, public authorities and occupational safety and health professionals together.
FOR YOU
A WARNING
Thomas Cole
The Consummation of Empire, 1836
In Cole’s series, this city at the height of its power immediately precedes chaos. It reminds us how quickly an equilibrium that seems secure can become fragile and tip if we stop paying attention. View the work ↗
02 — THE ARGUMENT
The health effects of an AI system do not come from the model alone. They emerge from the way its capabilities are integrated into the organisation of work.
03 — ACT
04 — RESEARCH
The article examines the introduction of LLMs through the six Gollac factors: intensity, emotional demands, autonomy, social relationships, value conflicts and insecurity.
Open the DOI ↗An evaluation of a language model used as a second reader to identify wording defects, without replacing work-post analysis or medical judgement.
Read on the INRS website ↗An exploratory method for describing workload, autonomy, skills, collective work and the conditions for a reversible trial separately.
Read the method →
05 — ABOUT
AI & Occupational Health is an independent editorial initiative led by Dr Charles Broutin, an occupational physician and AI lead for the French Society of Occupational Health. The project connects the evaluation of AI systems with the analysis of real work: what tools enable, what they shift within an organisation and what must be verified to protect health.
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