Ryan Carrier is Executive Director at ForHumanity/ President at ForHumanity Europe, a public charity operating in 98 countries that examines the impact of AI and autonomous systems on jobs, society, rights and freedoms, as well as the downside risks and challenges associated with these technologies. Ryan shares his unusual career journey, which started in finance and led to the founding of ForHumanity in March 2020. Initially focused on drafting audit rules for digital contact tracing during the pandemic, they have since developed more than 50 certification schemes and submitted them to governments and regulators for approval. We discuss:

• responsible AI development
• the need for independent audits promote compliance with emerging regulations
• the importance of AI literacy (and how it ought to be defined)
• why compliance is often cheaper than paying fines for non-compliance, yet many companies currently view fines as just a cost of doing business
• the marketing benefits of a “Good Housekeeping” seal of approval to verify compliance

We also veer into several other emerging technologies that are problematic from a societal/ethical standpoint, such as emotional recognition technology, those advancing "transhumanism," and gene editing. Also - ForHumanity just published 62 use cases for HR, designed to provide auditors with examples of best practices and compliant outputs. We discuss one such use case involving mental health chatbots - the potential for good as well as the considerable downside risk.

A truly fascinating conversation with a man - and organization - doing remarkable, vitally important, and largely unsung work.

Taylor Bradley is Head of Talent Strategy & Developer Success for Turing, builders of generative AI products and solutions that transform complex data into actionable insights. Taylor is an HR executive with over a decade of experience partnering with founders and executives to drive talent strategies in fast-growing, late-stage tech companies. Our wide-ranging conversation touches on:

• the unfair advantages of having two first names
• how his previous work as a paramedic informs his leadership style
• Turing’s “AI-powered Talent Cloud” and real world applications for HR
• how Turing scales AI-centric workforces (we discuss the flip-side: maintaining human-centricity)
• aligning HR practices with business goals in an AI-augmented world
• the major opportunities and challenges going forward

David Foote, of the eponymous Foote Partners, joins us for the second in a series of talks on The Big Shift-several tectonic changes sweeping through the workplace, driven by several key high-momentum technologies, including, of course, AI. In the first podcast we discussed the previous four industrial revolutions, going back to the first one in the 1700’s that was chiefly powered by the emergence of the efficient steam engine. On this pod, we examine the shifts in supply, demand and pay pay for tech skills. As with all the pods in the series, this should be particularly illuminating for the HR pros in our listening audience who want to get out in the front of the trends David and his team have identified that are shaping the future of work.