Inside the ‘scary’ surge in AI-assisted unfair dismissal claims
by David Marin-Guzman · Australian Financial ReviewDavid Marin-GuzmanWorkplace correspondent
Jun 30, 2026 – 5.00am
Little more than a minute after hitting “send” on a half-page email to a dismissed worker, Luis Izzo was hit by a wall of automated data.
“Literally within 90 seconds, I had an eight-page response citing 10 different cases,” says Izzo, a principal at Australian Business Lawyers. “Clearly, they had just plugged it into a prompt and sent it back. That’s the kind of sheer volume we’re dealing with.”
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David Marin-GuzmanWorkplace correspondentDavid Marin-Guzman writes about industrial relations, workplace, policy and leadership from Sydney. Connect with David on Twitter. Email David at david.marin-guzman@afr.com
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