‘A(I)geing at work’: The Impact of AI on Ageing at Work

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Abstract

The increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) at work is radically transforming the workplace dynamics, labour processes, and working conditions of workers at all career stages. Despite the vast body of scholarship exploring the quantitative and qualitative impact of such a transformation, little attention has been devoted to the role of age in shaping the workers’ experiences with AI tools. Anecdotal evidence demonstrates that two age groups, namely “young” and “aged” workers, are particularly exposed to AI risks, albeit in distinct ways and for different reasons. AI may exacerbate the existing systemic barriers that both groups have been facing before the advent of the latest technology wave, as well as it may generate new, AI-specific risks that still have to be uncovered and analysed through an innovative multi-disciplinary lens. Current regulatory frameworks fail to take account of these vulnerabilities specific to workers’ life stages.

By gaining a multi-disciplinary understanding of the relationship between workers’ age and the AI adoption at work and mapping the risks related to “algorithmic ageism”, the A(I)geing@Work workshop will contribute to designing fair, adequate, and responsive policy measures. Innovative policy approaches are needed to mobilise AI potential to foster social inclusion for both young and older workers and to protect them from further marginalisation and precarisation. AI policies, trainings aimed at increasing AI literacy, and labour regulations (including collective bargaining agreements) need to accommodate the expectations and limitations that are common at these specific life stages. Therefore, designing the path(s) forward can only be achieved by bringing together perspectives from law, psychology, economics, ethics, sociology, and tech, as well as practical insights from stakeholders and policy makers.

Language

English.

This is a free hybrid event. Registration is mandatory.

The conference will be hybrid on 9 and 10 March, and only in person on 11 March.

Programme

Monday, 9 March 2026

• 12.00 – 12.30

  Registration

• 12.30 – 13.30

  Light lunch

• 13.30 – 14.30

  Introduction and conceptual foundations

  • Nastazja POTOCKA-SIONEK (University of Luxembourg)
  • Adrian STANCIU (University of Luxembourg)

• 14.30 – 14.30

  Coffee break

• 14.30 – 16.30

  Session 1: Economic and sociological perspectives

  • Uyen NGUYEN-THIL (LISER)
  • Patrick THILL (LISER)
  • Tiago VIEIRA (Independent)

• 16.30 – 16.45

  Coffee break

• 16.45 – 18.45

  Session 2: Computer science perspectives

  • Ruya KOÇER (Leiden University)
  • Ioana DUTA-VISESCU (ULIDE, University of Luxembourg)
  • Paolo DARIO (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

• 18.45

  Networking cocktail

Tuesday, 10 March 2026

• 09.30 – 11.00

  Session 3: Psychological and ethical perspectives

  • Adrian STANCIU (University of Luxembourg)
  • Alberto PIRNI (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

• 11.00 – 11.30

  Coffee break

• 11.30 – 13.30

  Session 4: Legal frameworks and labour institutions

  • Marc STEIERT (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory)
  • Luca RATTI (University of Luxembourg)
  • Nastazja POTOCKA-SIONEK (University of Luxembourg)

• 13.30 – 14.30

  Lunch break

• 14.30 – 16.00

  Session 5: Policy perspectives

  • Shui Beam LAM (EU Commission)
  • Franz EIFFE (Eurofound)

• 16.00 – 16.30

  Coffee break

• 16.30 – 18.30

  Session 6: Industry perspectives

  • Marc LEBRUN (Randstad Luxembourg)
  • Sophia COOPER & François-Xavier BORSI (ADEM)
  • Renée THOMMES (Ministry of Labour)

• 18.30

  Social dinner

Wednesday, 11 March 2026

• 09.30 – 11.30

  Session 7: Designing skills, policy, and regulatory responses

• 11.30 – 12.00

  Coffee break

• 12.00 – 13.00

  Outlook, future research agenda, and video recording

• 13.00 – 14.00

  Lunch break

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