Mansioni e macchina intelligente

[Autom. eng. transl.] By now the intelligent machine is an innovation engine that projects work towards scenarios of progress; and among these scenarios, often non-linear, where stasis and changes are intertwined, there is Industry 4.0 with its binary world made up of algorithms that combine with matter, of bits with atoms, of human work with digital prostheses. The book on "Duties and intelligent machine" explains it to us, not by describing a hypothetical future of work, but by applying a pragmatic method to study some current data referring to advanced technology business contexts to examine the legal consequences and to contribute to the debate on possible future labor protections. The book proposes a re-reading of art. 2103 of the Italian Civil Code (revised in 2015), in relation to the labor law reactions to technology, aimed at highlighting the potential of collective bargaining in regulating processes in the evolving factory and also offering the response of labor law to the new structure of the relationship between employer, worker and intelligent machine, which is the third element of this relationship. There is a process of hybridism already underway: every time a worker interacts with an intelligent machine (a "cobot", but also just a smartphone or computer) he becomes a kind of cyborg. According to the author of "Duties and intelligent machine", the functions of labor regulation and collective bargaining must also concern the protections relating to the management, in Industry 4.0, of such hybridism.