Everyone knows it is much harder for people to be re-employed if they lose their job after the age of 45. The artificial intelligence revolution is exacerbating mature-age workers’ rational anxiety about the risk of long-term unemployment.Autonomous recruitment tools prompted to filter out CVs that exceed the algorithm’s age and experience thresholds represent the literal first-touch workplace impact of AI’s disruption of the labour market.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Avoid AI hiring overreliance – and regulatory overreach
We should be wary of the union push for Labor to impose strict limits on AI use at work. That would go against the general rule that the best form of regulation is outcomes-focused.






