Dr McCay has considered how artificial intelligence might impact the workplace, drawing attention to the value that humans bring to it both here and here. Accepting that AI is likely to be enormously impactful in relation to the work of lawyers, he has considered the value human lawyers bring to legal work in light of some possible limitations of current approaches to AI, as well addressing the way in which AI might drive a trend towards interdisciplinary teams in law firms.
Towards the end of a commissioned report he wrote for the Law Society of England and Wales he considered the way that neurotechnology might have implications for the way lawyers work as well as the way they bill (introducing the concept of billable units of attention), and voiced some concerns about the potential for future neurosurveillance and neuroenhancement of lawyers. In the aforementioned report and other writing he has argued that lawyers need to take more of an anticipatory stance to meet the challenges of emerging technology.
He has also addressed the Victorian Parliament's Economy and Infrastructure Committee on workplace neurosurveillance and his evidence is referenced in their final report and, in conjunction with an employment law specialist, he has also written about the legality of current approaches to neurosurveillance in Australia.