TORY ministers are failing to protect workers from being exploited by artificial intelligence (AI), the TUC will warn today.

New technology is making “high-risk, life-changing” decisions about people’s lives, including using facial expressions, tone of voice and accents to assess candidates’ suitability for roles, the union body charged.

Left unchecked, AI, which employees are “being kept in the dark about,” could lead to “greater discrimination at work across the economy,” it argued.