AI Is Making People Decisions Worse—Here’s Why

About this episode

This episode discusses the challenges of using AI in people decisions and the gap in understanding organizations have regarding the data they use.

AI is speeding up people decisions at exactly the moment those decisions require more care, more context, and frankly, more humility. In this episode, Matt Poepsel from The Predictive Index joins David Rice at Transform to unpack the growing gap between what AI can do and what organizations actually understand about the people data they’re feeding into it. Because while everyone is obsessed with automation, agents, and productivity gains, most managers still don’t know how to ask the most imp...

People in this episode

Host: David Rice

Guest: Matt Poepsel

Topics covered

• AI in decision making
• people management
• automation
• organizational understanding
• data ethics

Keywords

• AI
• people decisions
• management
• data
• automation
• organizational behavior

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Predictive Index

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