AI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips
A weekly summary of AI developments relevant to HR in no more than 5 minutes
Episodes
108 episodes
The Holy Grail of Workplace Efficiency — Have We Finally Found It?
This week a triumphant Barry Phillips claims he’s found the one game changing AI tool that every workplace will want to use.
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6:34
The Rise of the Artificial Colleague
This week Barry Phillips asks: what happens when your colleagues start confiding in machines?
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4:35
How to choose the right LLM for your workplace and should HR have the final say?
This week Barry Phillips looks at what to consider when choosing the right goto LLM for the workplace.
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6:56
Are we being lied to about AI adoption rates?
This week Barry Phillips questions what we are being told about AI adoption rates and calls for a whole lot more scepticism.
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3:47
GenAI is Free… But Soon We’ll Need to Talk Budgets
This week, Barry Phillips, argues that the era of free GenAI use is coming to an end meaning big and difficult choices ahead for employers.
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5:08
From Punch Cards to Plain Speech: The Workplace Revolution Nobody's Talking About…
This week, Barry Phillips asks whether AI has finally delivered a huge time saver few organisations and employees seem to be using.
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6:43
Regulating Use of GenAI Tools Employees Just Shouldn’t Be Using – How to Resolve the Conundrum?
This week Barry Phillips offers his solution to the growing problem of how to regulate employee use of GenAI that haven’t been whitelisted.
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4:12
AI in the Workplace: Is it Still a Wild West? Our Survey Said…
This week Barry Phillips asks what will finally persuade employers to properly regulate AI usage in the workplace.
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4:36
The Great AI Challenge: Redesigning Work, Not Just Automating It
We're constantly told that AI is transforming work. But here's the uncomfortable truth many organisations are getting it badly wrong. Bolting AI onto broken processes doesn't create transformation—it creates expensive chaos. Let me explain why....
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4:06
Is ChatGPT Safe to Use in the Private and Third Sector?
This week Barry Phillips asks whether the data security concerns around ChatGPT are really justified.
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6:00
Who would dare make a prediction for 2026 in the world of AI? Our Chairman apparently…!
This week, Barry Phillips risks a single prediction for workplace AI and hopes he's wrong for this year at least.
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4:26
The Annual Report that Highlights the Key AI Success Drivers
This week Barry Phillips takes a look at the critical findings from Deloitte’s Tech Trends 2026 report.
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3:06
AI in the Workplace – Friend or Foe? (Spoiler: It's Complicated)"
This week Barry Phillips asks “Does AI have a reputation in the workplace that requires a complete rethink and rebrand?”
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7:20
Data Security and ChatGPT – Open AI’s Little Known Huge Improvement
This week Barry Phillips argues that it may be time to relax the rules relating to use of ChatGPT in the workplace.
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3:41
Annual Review AI Keynote– Six Takeaways
This week Barry Phillips shares six of his many takeaways from his AI keynote delivered this month.
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3:50
Will the US Succeed in Trumping the EU AI Act as well as D&I?
As the EU released more details this week on how it plans to reduce the impact of the EU AI Act, Barry Phillips asks what we can do about this bended knee approach to the might of the US.
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Why it's Time for HR to Lead AI Adoption.
This week Barry Phillips argues there will never be a better time for HR to enhance its professional standing than in this digital revolution.
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4:12
A Report on the AI Reports for this year (Part 1)
This week Barry Phillips takes a look at some of the most significant AI reports of the year to so far.
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5:11
Latest Report on AI adoption Figures in the Workplace
This week Barry Phillips looks at the latest AI adoption figures in the US and draws conclusions for us here in Ireland and the UK.
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4:35
No such thing as the perfect prompt? Maybe it’s time to rethink this?
This week Barry Phillips asks himself whether it is time to go back on his earlier advice that there’s no such thing as the perfect prompt for an LLM.
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3:54
Accessing the Subject of AI – Is it as complicated for HR as we’re given to believe?
This week Barry Phillips argues that AI can be simplified and is actually easy to understand.
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4:46
This week’s KPMG Suggests CEOs get AI – so why isn’t this getting to HR?
This week KPMG 2025 published their annual Global CEO Outlook report and its findings surprised a good many in HR
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At last! A Government backed Paper all about AI in Northern Ireland
This week Barry Phillips reviews a position paper just published about AI in the Northern Ireland workplace.
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