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Using AI to prepare workplace complaints and responses to allegations led to an employee's "demise", the Fair Work Commission has found, in upholding his dismissal for misconduct.

"The use of AI appears to have given [the employee] a false sense of security that his communications, laden as they were with allegations of impropriety by his managers and demands for corrective action, were appropriate and acceptable in a workplace setting. Objectively, they were not," Deputy President Tony Slevin said.

The case involved a senior java developer, who worked for Fujifilm Data Management Solutions from late 2013 until he was sacked for serious misconduct in August last year.

In unfair dismissal proceedings, the Commission heard the events that led to the termination began a couple of months earlier, when the employee accused a colleague of bullying following a heated Microsoft Teams exchange...