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“You aren’t going to get all the unions to agree. One loses, the other might gain,” says Art Wheaton, ILR director of labor studies, commenting on varied perspectives within labor unions on supporting AI.

Due to AI’s impact on the design of jobs and organizations, HR leaders should play a strategic role in AI-related decision-making, comments Brad Bell, director of ILR’s Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies.

A course on AI and HR will use a robotic chatbot being built by Scott Seidenberger ’16, ILR postdoctoral associate in human resource studies and part of the Cornell AI Experimenters Faculty Fellows program.

“We’re really not getting to the local, very timely demographic and occupation industry-specific effects,” says Erica Groshen, ILR senior labor market advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, commenting in a podcast interview on the benefits of modernizing data collection efforts by U.S. federal statistical agencies.

“There's not as much resistance to AI as you might expect, so long as they're willing to work with people instead of replacing people,” says Art Wheaton, ILR director of labor studies, about typical union-based attitudes toward artificial intelligence in the workplace.

ILR Professor Eli Friedman comments on the vulnerability of workers in China facing displacement by AI.

“Employees want to know that there’s a trusted person that has expertise that they can go to and address issues, and they’re never going to feel fully confident in having a bot do it,” says JR Keller, ILR associate professor, discussing the value of human-powered HR departments.

“AI is very good at repeated tasks in stable environments. But when things change, it has to be retrained. Human systems adapt continuously,” says Chris Collins, ILR professor and director of ILR’s MILR Program, in his incisive discussion of current successes and pitfalls of using AI in Human Resources.

JR Keller, ILR associate professor, discusses how AI-led job interviews impact certain aspects of the hiring process. [Syndicated from Business Insider]