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
65 episodes
The Alarming Gap in AI Training at Work
This week Barry Phillips shares the results of a survey of Irish employers and has reason to worry
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4:19
Is AI Coming for Anyone Who Doesn't Do AI — Or Just Everyone?
This week Barry Phillips comments on a shift in thinking and asks how do we view the change to come because of AI.
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3:38
“When AI Becomes Too Much Like Us”
This week, Barry Phillips, considers whether ChatGPT is becoming not only too like a human but too like the actual user.
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4:09
"That Shopify AI Memo – why all the fuss?"
This week, Barry Phillips, asks why the Shopify memo making AI use compulsory in the company proved so newsworthy.
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4:23
The Stanford AI Index Report 2025 and Key Takeaways for HR
This week Barry Phillips takes a look at the AI Index Report of 2025 and gives his top five takeaways for HR
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4:13
“From Co-Pilot to Colleague: Why AI Agents Are Your Newest Team Members”
This week Barry Phillips considers a completely new type of team member that’s a little bit special.
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4:42
“Adoption of AI in Ireland – our latest survey said ……”
This week Barry Phillips examines the results of our latest survey on AI adoption and reads the tea leaves…
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4:51
ChatGPT at Work: The Compliance Nightmare No One's Talking About (Yet)
This week Barry Phillips argues that we all have to use ChatGPT much better to keep sensitive data secure
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3:37
How GenAI is Transforming HR Visuals – We May Never Have to Visit Istock Again
Barry Phillips takes a look this week at how GenAI is changing the visualisation of HR
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4:32
How to Deal with the AI Naysayers
This week Barry Phillips considers how we should deal with employees who just simply refuse to do AI.
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4:41
OpenAI’s Deep Dive: "Will HR Ever Need to Google Again?"
This week, Barry Phillips explores OpenAI's revolutionary Deep Research function and asks whether the days of endless HR research rabbit holes are finally over...
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4:54
The Dark Side of GenAI Use in the Workplace
This week Barry Phillips considers whether banning ChatGPT outright is really an option for any employer.
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4:26
“The AI Literacy Obligation under the EU AI Act: Early Adopters Leading the Way”
This week Barry Phillips looks at the organisations already claiming to be AI Literate under the Act.
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3:50
AI Literate? My Staff?! Yes, because Brussels Said So!
This week Barry Phillips take a look at the new AI Literacy obligation imposed on organisations by the EU AI Act and ask what does it mean?
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4:25
2025 McKinsey Report on AI- What are the Key Takeaways for Employers?
Barry Phillips gives his views on the top ten takeaways from the McKinsey survey on AI published on Monday of this week
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4:48
Why GenAI is changing what misconduct at work may actually mean
This week Barry Phillips takes a look at how GenAI is forcing HR to rethink what amounts to misconduct in the workplace
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4:24
Accuracy when using ChatGPT - 3 Hot Tips
This week Barry Phillips offers 3 Hot Tips to help improve the accuracy of responses from ChatGPT and other GenAI models.
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3:08
Why Are Employers Playing Hard to Get with ChatGPT or Copilot?
In a week in which the UK Prime Minister is promising to unleash AI in the UK Barry Phillips ask why is it that employers seem reluctant to embrace GenAI in the workplace.
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3:34
Why you should lead with a ChatGPT first approach to implementing AI in your workplace.
This week Barry Phillips argues that if this is the year when HR finally embraces AI we should adopt a “ChatGPT First” approach to implementation.
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4:15
“From Digital Clones to ChatGPT 5: The AI Tools You Can’t Ignore in 2025”
This week Barry Phillips makes his predictions for the five GenAI tools you really need to what out for in HR for 2025.
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4:58
“Unveiling 2024's Best Gen AI Toys for HR this Christmas"
This week we review the year’s best GenAI tools for HR other than the main frontier models
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3:42
How to Use GenAI to Bring HR Policies to Life
This week Barry Phillips looks at how developments in Gen AI are helping bring to life the likes of the poor old forgotten staff handbook.
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4:29
"The Clone Wars: GenAI Avatars in the Workplace"
This week Barry Phillips takes a look at what happens when your boss is a bot—but looks just like your boss.
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5:32