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(AI) AI refers to systems that display intelligent behaviour by analysing their environment and taking actions – with some degree of autonomy – to achieve specific goals. AI-based systems can be purely software-based, acting in the virtual world (e.g. voice assistants, image analysis software, search engines, speech and face recognition systems) or AI can be embedded in hardware devices (e.g. advanced robots, autonomous cars, drones or Internet of things applications). 's ( AI refers to systems that display intelligent behaviour by analysing their environment and taking actions – with some degree of autonomy – to achieve specific goals. AI-based systems can be purely software-based, acting in the virtual world (e.g. voice assistants, image analysis software, search engines, speech and face recognition systems) or AI can be embedded in hardware devices (e.g. advanced robots, autonomous cars, drones or Internet of things applications). ) potential to reshape work organisation and automate repetitive, hazardous tasks was a key focus in a recent interview with Maurizio Curtarelli, featured on the blog Reshaping Work. 

Topics discussed included the implications of AI for occupational safety and health (OSH) to enhance workers’ well-being and prevent risks, and the new challenges and opportunities for OSH. 

Curtarelli highlighted opportunities as the optimisation of work organisation and workers’ workload, the delegation of repetitive and hazardous tasks to machines, as well as challenges as the loss of autonomy and the work intensification.

Read the full interview to explore these topics and learn more about the Healthy Workplaces campaign focus on the automation of tasks.