ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF THE DIGITAL WORK­ORIENTED SOCIETY An outline for a holistic technology impact assessment Thorben Albrecht and Christian Kellermann October 2020 Factors for the use of AI at the work ­place: technological performance of AI, the regulatory framework and whether AI can be integrated into production and labour processes. An uncontrolled digitisation with AI on the top threatens to throw our work-oriented society off its current “balance”. A laissez-faire policy would not be a good path towards a digiti ­sed work-oriented society. An AI impact assessment should ac ­tion on a suitable political-regulatory framework, transparency about ob ­jectives and operating modes of AI, participation and qualification of em ­ployees in the use of AI.