RadHR Lunch Meet #15 TODAY 1pm!

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We’ll be talking about:

  • Where to start in more centralised or traditional organisations
  • Medical leave for trans people
  • AI ethics & usage

And there’s still time to suggest other topics before 1pm.

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Sorry I missed this! Was there anything usefully shared re AI ethics and usage? Thanks,Hannah

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Here are the notes I made, I’m not sure if they’re useful, but we are thinking about a future soapbox event on generative AI…

Notes from Lunch Meet AI session

  • Everybody talking about this all the time; enormous amounts of hype and fluff.

  • HR context: Don’t want to put people’s details into it.

  • In self-managed teams it’s often down to the individual, but AI is also controversial so more of an org-wide issue.

  • Our org tech is Microsoft… Copilot is being rolled out, errr “Please don’t.”

  • Owner of one org using it obsessively and encouraging it to be used, but it’s wildly inaccurate for us. Number of people in the org really critical, uncomfortable impasse, trying to situate the tech more widely…

  • Extractivist nature of the technology.

  • Giving enormous power to a small number of the world’s worst people.

  • Story yesterday about Microsoft supporting Israeli surveillance of Palestinians.

  • Importance of understanding history: Diggers, Luddites etc. who they really were and what they were campaigning for?

  • Recent charity post about overwhelm of recruiters with job ads written by AI, similar problems with academic journals, science funders, anything open to submission.

  • Some AI dude: “It’s useful if you’re doing something you know how to do.” But what % of its current use is this?

  • Another use case: first drafts of things, for people that get blocked, someone using a version trained on their own blogs etc. Is that better?

  • A community group is using it to write better funding applications: previous app + funding criteria = application that is then checked and edited.

  • Where do you compromise? i.e. Don’t buy stationery from Amazon, how much better is using Viking or similar?

  • RadHR are working on a policy about why we don’t use it, including under what conditions we would (most of which are not met by current technology).

  • Criteria that would need to be met to use it would be useful.