Jill Barrett

AI holds immense opportunities to revolutionise the world of work. However, an AI trust gap is emerging. A key hurdle for successful AI implementation in the workplace is employee trust, or rather lack of trust, in AI and the role it will play in their jobs. Despite AI being a tool that will increase productivity and innovation, it is increasingly being met with resistance rather than excitement in some workplaces.

M Matheson More Established in 1825 in Dublin, Ireland and with offices in Cork, London, New York, Palo Alto and San Francisco, more than 700 people work across Matheson’s six offices, including 96 partners and tax principals and over 470 legal and tax professionals. Matheson services the legal needs of internationally focused companies and financial institutions doing business in and from Ireland.

When the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 (the "2014 Act") was introduced almost a decade ago, organisations and practitioners believed that this would instigate a great deal of whistleblowing complaints by individuals. This, however, did not materialise to the extent anticipated. Since the enactment of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act 2022 (the "2022 Act") in January of this year, however, we are now seeing a very notable trend of employees blowing the whistle.