The Future of Work: Cultivating Innovation and Powering Discovery
At this year’s CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition, Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, the mathematician and STEM advocate, encouraged delegates to harness the possibilities that the future of work might hold and urged each one of us to play our part
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, Mathematician and STEM Advocate, speaking as the keynote for the CIPD’s annual conference in Manchester, claimed that the future of work is happening here and now, and everyone has the opportunity to help shape how we interact with technology and how we progress in an equitable way. This is important because human resources is uniquely placed to help design the ethical use of technology in the workplace. By setting expectations around fairness, transparency, and accountability, HR can turn Artificial Intelligence from a disruptor into a partner for progress, she told delegates.“
We do have a voice. We do have a space to operate,” she said. “Because HR covers recruitment, culture, and wellbeing, it needs to engage with the debate around how technology can be ethically and effectively introduced into organisations. “You have quite a lot of influence to ask these questions, to challenge at the right time,” she said, “so that then 50 years down the line, we can be proud of the decisions that we made.”
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