Reducing Fear And Loathing Of AI In The Workplace

In the 2016 movie Hidden Figures, the very human, relatable protagonists worried that the installation of an IBM mainframe at NASA in 1961 would make their jobs redundant. "This IBM's going to put us all out of work." "There's only one thing to do: Learn all we can. "Somewhere down the line, a human being's going to have to push the buttons." Many employees today are equally nervous about alarmist headlines related to the creeping influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace. Yet most managers and HR leaders aren't fully prepared to deal with these concerns. You need to make your people comfortable with the future by explaining what AI will mean to them in real terms, what it's going to look like in your industry, how it's going to benefit them and even how it may impact them if we all don't proactively get in front of it. The first step to leading your employees through this cycle of change is to educate yourself. Before you talk with your employees about AI, you have ...