Data Use and Access Bill Clause 80 Amendment

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IFOW's probing amendments to the DUAB, highlight the range of impacts and ways to create value from AI and automation technologies, other than the substitution of human tasks and labour.  Drawing on the Pissarides Review's model of automation and paper on automation archetypes, the amendments tabled by Lord Tim Clement-Jones and Lord Jim Knight and published here state:

After Clause 80

insert the following new Clause—

“Data-informed AI impact on work or workers

(1) The Secretary of State must, within 12 months of the day on which this Act is passed, produce a report on the use of data to inform automated decision-making and artificial intelligence (AI) and on certain impacts such data-informed systems may have on work or workers.

(2) The report must include recommendations around how decision-makers should have due regard to the following when making a decision to use data-informed automated decision-making systems—

(a) that people and their representatives should be informed when data-informed automated systems are being used in relation to their employment, how and why they are being used, and what impacts it may have on their employment;

(b) that people and their representatives should have agency over data, digital and industrial information collected about them at work, whether or not it fa3lls within the definition of personal data;

(c) that people and their representatives should be able to use their data and digital information and automated systems for contact and association to improve work access, quality and conditions.

(3) An automated decision-making process under this section may relate to automated processing for the purpose of delivering any type of automation or combination thereof including—

(a) displacement;

(b) high and low discretion automation (“augmentation”);

(c) matching;

(d) intensification;

(e) telepresence;

(f) creation.”

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