Episode 9: Bringing AI Down from the Mountaintop: a Conversation with Harold Ford III

Harold G. Ford III - yes, the third - is the Practice Director for the Employer Solutions Practice at Net at Work, a leading business technology consulting firm. Harold will be one of our rotating co-hosts, bringing a field-level perspective to AI and HR. Harold and I will ask our guests to answer the question: How should organizations re-think their day-to-day HR, IT, and business processes and all the associated organizational challenges, in the age of AI? We’ll address topics from a practitioner’s perspective - business owner, head of HR, finance, or IT - from an SMB company. In other words, bringing the AI tablets down from the mountaintop.  On our first pod together, we discuss the most significant changes in the workplace over the past few years, the “hesitational enthusiasm” (his words) with which HR professionals have approached AI, its transformative potential as well as the challenges of efficiently and responsibly integrating AI into HR workflows. We discuss the need for greater AI literacy and touch on topics we’ll be addressing on future pods together.