ANALYSIS: Will Companies Keep AI Models Fed With Employee Data?

Two topics have dominated business headlines throughout 2023: workers’ rights and generative AI. In 2024, they will converge. As companies clamber to capitalize on AI and become increasingly desperate for high-quality data to train AI models, many will look to their own employees’ data—in the form of both work product and personal information—as a source to consider, due to the dearth of regulation regarding its use and the oceans of it available to most companies.

Today, as legislators debate how much privacy an employee should reasonably expect at work, employers amass huge stores of data on everything an employee ...