AI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips

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. 

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.

This week Barry Phillips makes his predictions for the five GenAI tools you really need to what out for in HR for 2025.

This week we review the year’s best GenAI tools for HR other than the main frontier models 

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.

This week Barry Phillips takes a look at what happens when your boss is a bot—but looks just like your boss .  

This week, Barry Phillips goes back to basics to argue for a clearer understanding of what AI is and why we in HR should think differently about GenAI.

This week Barry Phillips asks whether the concern for bias in data used to train LLMs such as ChatGPT is actually misplaced. 

This week in our weekly review of AI developments for HR we comment on the importance of starting in the right place with your first AI initiative. 

This week Barry Phillips comments on research published recently that suggests that many more males than females are using GenAI and seeks an explanation.

This week Barry Phillips tries to make sense of all the versions of ChatGPT4 now available and asks which is best for HR.

Barry Phillips asks whether the latest adoption rates of ChatGPT suggest to HR that it’s a question of when not if..   

This week Open AI presented HR with yet another reason it should be using ChatGPT : the Canvas upgrade

Barry Phillips asks whether we can expect a major battle soon for LLM supremacy in the workplace. But is it just a straight fight between ChatGPT and Co-Pilot? He thinks not.

This week Barry Phillips suggests two golden rules for safe and sensible use of ChatGPT before rolling it out to every staff member.

Barry Phillips calls in the help of a goat to explain why this latest version of ChatGPT is so important.

Barry Phillips this week looks at a simple use case for ChatGPT that will save everyone time and represents a great place to start for anyone in HR struggling to secure employee sign up to using AI.

Barry Phillips questions whether the current approach of many employers to ban use of LLMs such as ChatGPT makes any sense at all.  

Barry Phillips considers how HR can mitigate against the inevitable bias in ChatGPT

Barry Phillips examines the significance of two surveys this week about the adoption of ChatGPT in the workplace.

Barry Phillips considers the likely impact of avatars in the workplace for HR. 

Barry Phillips analyses the many versions of ChatGPT so far and gives his view on which was the most important for HR. 

Barry Phillips considers the importance of the launch this week of ChatGPT4omini and how it may help HR tool-up. 

This week Barry Phillips reports on his experiments to create an executive coach for people in HR.

Barry Phillips considers whether there really are any viable alternatives to ChatGPT and if so, how we choose the best one.