5 Ways AI is Reshaping the Human Resources Industry — from intelligenthq.com

Excerpt:

Here are a few of the ways that HR professionals and departments are leveraging artificial intelligence to improve the hiring and employee management process.

From DSC:
I must admit that I was originally kind of excited to post this. And while I appreciate the ideas involving onboarding, completing forms, offering appropriate learning modules, and benefits administration…in looking more closely at this article, I have some serious concerns with:

  • Using AI to screen candidates — the Applicant Tracking Systems can miss a lot of things; algorithms and parameters can discriminate all too easily
  • Using AI to track employee behavior — seems controlling, not trusting one’s employees, and manipulative. 

Employee tracking is also essential for managing remote employees.

From DSC:
B.S.  If you hire talented individuals, don’t do this. This can easily backfire on you, making employees feel like second graders. Don’t do it. You don’t want that kind of employee anyway. This is a slippery slope to micromanaging and not honoring/trusting your employees to get their jobs done.


From DSC:
On a more positive note, this application of AI seems pretty sharp to me!

Do you know the name of the flowers you like? How about the name of the flowers or trees you walk by everyday on your commute to work, do you know their names? Well, now you can with the help of the plant identification apps below. I curated for you a collection of some of the best apps you and your students can use to identify plants, flowers, and trees by simply photographing them.