All of HR needs to think about the ethical implications of our use of AI.

It’s not alarmist to think that AI will enable HR to discriminate more and in new ways! After all, Amazon had to scrap their recruitment and selection AI because it was biased against women.

This week I, again, spoke with Megan Marie Butler about AI in HR. She speaks plainly and is quite practical in her assessment of AI in HR. She is doing her PhD in the space, but is so frank and easy to understand!

Her insights:

Most AI is legal!

It is all legal because there is so little regulation.

Since it is unregulated, we can unknowingly cause significant social harm if we are not careful. Causing social harm could land us in legal hot water.

Megan provided a few examples of how AI is creating new classes of people to discriminate against.

Regulation is coming. Even so, we are going to learn the hard way. Don’t be the cautionary tale.

Find Megan on LinkedIn @meganmariebutler.
or at ⁠bnmmb@leeds.ac.uk⁠

Find Andrea for consulting in Western Canada at thehrhub.ca.

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Curious about how AI is changing the game for HR? Or maybe you’ve been waiting for the hype to die down and the real story to come out. This discussion is super informative either way!

I found a fantastic guest to talk about AI for HR! Megan Marie Butler is doing her PhD on the topic and, since she is not affiliated with any software company, we get a fairly unfiltered point of view! And Megan is pretty funny as speaks her mind on the potential and perils of AI. Like:

The AI sky might fall on HR!

Or it might not, but we have to be cautious. If a vendor says they can’t tell you what’s going on underneath: beware.

We will, at least partly, learn the hard way.

There are surprising and exciting use cases for it beyond ChatGPT.

AI is hard to define and ChatGPT is just one form. Albeit a very exciting form.

This was an outstanding episode if I do say so myself. If you haven’t delved into it yet, try this episode. Megan speaks plainly and informatively.

Find Megan on LinkedIn (@meganmariebutler) or at ⁠bnmmb@leeds.ac.uk⁠.

Find Andrea for consulting in Western Canada at thehrhub.ca.

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