In this episode of 3Sixty Insights, we went down the rabbit hole to ponder the future impact of artificial intelligence in hiring and human capital management generally. It’s of paramount importance and urgent, we agreed, that humans develop and apply the soundest psychometrics possible to the evaluation and hiring of people, lest AI eventually apply its own and, possibly, prioritise profits and cost containment in ways our imagination can barely fathom. AI-driven criteria for hiring certainly wouldn’t necessarily be ethical or value the human purpose in work, but a human-driven psychometrics model just might. And, in veering into these topics, Mike and Brent talk about whether civilisation just might be putting too much faith, proverbially and literally, in AI.
The productivity challenge leaders can’t afford to ignore: Mike Erlin in IML
Mike Erlin writes for the Institute of Managers and Leaders on why skills alone don’t explain productivity. The missing layer is capability: the capacity to consistently apply knowledge under the conditions a role actually demands. As AI accelerates work, that distinction becomes one of the defining leadership challenges of the decade.
