Artificial intelligence is changing our society just as profoundly as the advent of cars or the internet in the last century. It is appearing in our personal and professional lives as a new tool. Despite what one might expect, however, most Europeans use AI in their private lives (38%) rather than their work (12% in 2024 and around 25 % in 2025).  However, the development of AI represents an important opportunity in the workplace: it can thus boost productivity, health, safety and job satisfaction at work. AI will also make it possible to face certain challenges, such as labour shortages, by integrating AI for the accomplishment of certain tasks and optimising existing automation processes, thereby freeing workers from repetitive and tedious tasks with no added value.

Faced with this opportunity, the EU wants to take action. Europe wants to integrate and develop this new technology, as it is one of the key drivers for our companies to remain competitive in the world market by enabling an acceleration of productivity.  Faithful to their values and the European social model, the European institutions have multiplied the announcements to stay in the race of artificial intelligence (AI) while at the same time ensuring that the risks associated with the use of this new tool are minimised.

Ceemet advocates for the following principles in the introduction of AI at the workplace:

• Need to implement the official EU definition on AI 
• Respect a human-centric approach to Human Resources
• Avoid new legislation
• Use AI to improve health and safety at work
• Ensure that the workforce is well prepared to work with AI tools
• Stimulate investment in AI to boost growth and innovation
• Promote social dialogue for the fair adoption of AI