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Arbetstagares rättigheter i en AI-driven arbetsmiljö: AI-förordningen på svensk arbetsmarknad.

Arlebäck, Johanna LU and Feldman, Ellen (2025) RÄSK02 20251
Department of Sociology of Law
Abstract
This paper examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the AI-act affect the rights of the employee within the Swedish labour market, focusing on integrity. By analyzing different perspectives of the labour market´s AI-use the aim is to understand how employee rights are accommodated. The adjustment due to the AI-act attribute to the understanding of changing labour market conditions related to employee rights. This is understood with reference to Zuboff’s theory of “instrumentarian power” and the “Big other”. In order to gain a coherent understanding this paper also addressed prior research on workplace AI risks, legal uncertainty and attitudes towards AI-regulations. This paper is based on nine semi-structured interviews with three... (More)
This paper examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the AI-act affect the rights of the employee within the Swedish labour market, focusing on integrity. By analyzing different perspectives of the labour market´s AI-use the aim is to understand how employee rights are accommodated. The adjustment due to the AI-act attribute to the understanding of changing labour market conditions related to employee rights. This is understood with reference to Zuboff’s theory of “instrumentarian power” and the “Big other”. In order to gain a coherent understanding this paper also addressed prior research on workplace AI risks, legal uncertainty and attitudes towards AI-regulations. This paper is based on nine semi-structured interviews with three different unions and two leading corporations.

This review firmly concludes that the use of AI within the Swedish labour market expects to increase in the near future. The risk assessments of AI in relation to employee rights are limited, and are usually focused on the company and their customers. AI-systems are perceived and implemented as any other technology. Likewise the AI-act is applied as yet another law, and consequently the general working methods are not modified. The risks of AI-systems leading to “instrumentarian power” is limited in Sweden due to the tradition of labour law with impactful trade union influence. The limited discussions regarding the employee rights in relation to AI does hereby fall in with Zuboff:s theory of AI as a subconscious instrument of power. In fact this limits the protection of employee rights in relation to AI-use. (Less)
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author
Arlebäck, Johanna LU and Feldman, Ellen
supervisor
organization
course
RÄSK02 20251
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
AI, Artificial Intelligence, arbetstagares rättigheter, AI-förordningen, maktutövning.
language
Swedish
id
9208279
date added to LUP
2025-08-11 14:30:05
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2025-08-11 14:30:05
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  abstract     = {{This paper examines how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the AI-act affect the rights of the employee within the Swedish labour market, focusing on integrity. By analyzing different perspectives of the labour market´s AI-use the aim is to understand how employee rights are accommodated. The adjustment due to the AI-act attribute to the understanding of changing labour market conditions related to employee rights. This is understood with reference to Zuboff’s theory of “instrumentarian power” and the “Big other”. In order to gain a coherent understanding this paper also addressed prior research on workplace AI risks, legal uncertainty and attitudes towards AI-regulations. This paper is based on nine semi-structured interviews with three different unions and two leading corporations. 

This review firmly concludes that the use of AI within the Swedish labour market expects to increase in the near future. The risk assessments of AI in relation to employee rights are limited, and are usually focused on the company and their customers. AI-systems are perceived and implemented as any other technology. Likewise the AI-act is applied as yet another law, and consequently the general working methods are not modified. The risks of AI-systems leading to “instrumentarian power” is limited in Sweden due to the tradition of labour law with impactful trade union influence. The limited discussions regarding the employee rights in relation to AI does hereby fall in with Zuboff:s theory of AI as a subconscious instrument of power. In fact this limits the protection of employee rights in relation to AI-use.}},
  author       = {{Arlebäck, Johanna and Feldman, Ellen}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Arbetstagares rättigheter i en AI-driven arbetsmiljö: AI-förordningen på svensk arbetsmarknad.}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}