Prof. De Cremer has noted in the MIT Technology Review that the use of data and AI in HR practices can lead to what he calls a “circle of irony.” In this piece he addresses the use of intelligent technologies in HR practices in Asia and comments on the need to have purpose-driven leaders and flat communication channels to ask the right kind of questions with the aim to promote effective use of AI in people management. If we don’t, he argues, we will end up in a full “circle of irony”, where HR management becomes data management as humans are reduced to data points meeting the criteria designed to fit an AI framework.
Check out the piece here.