{"id":2354,"date":"2024-04-15T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrintelligence.it\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:28:57","slug":"artificial-intelligence-how-to-use-it-to-support-hr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/en\/artificial-intelligence-how-to-use-it-to-support-hr\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence: how to use it to support HR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, March 25, the workshop \u201c<strong>Human and Artificial Intelligence &#8211; New Models of Integration in Organizations, a Quantitative Approach<\/strong>\u201d was held, during which, in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osservatori.net\/it\/ricerche\/osservatori-attivi\/hr-innovation-practice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HR Innovation Practice Observatory, <\/strong><\/a>we deepened the themes of the Observatory&#8217;s March 19 workshop entitled \u201c<strong>HR and AI: The Evolution that passes through Human Resource Management<\/strong>.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We wanted to talk about today&#8217;s much in vogue topic of Artificial Intelligence but trying to put forward thoughts for a quantitative approach:<strong>to what extent can activities in various roles and professions be supported by AI?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We believe it is possible, through a Use Cases approach, to create an \u201cintegration matrix\u201d that highlights the space of artificial intelligence to support human intelligence. <strong>This allows us to estimate how much energy we can release and will have available to create more value.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Classical AI and Generative AI: the differences<\/h2>\n<p>First of all, AI is not just one technology, but a range of technologies that can be divided into two broad classes: <strong>Classical AI and Generative AI.<\/strong> It is precisely the latter that is receiving the most attention from the general public right now.<\/p>\n<p>Classical AI is used for a variety of applications such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>search and optimization<\/li>\n<li>expert systems<\/li>\n<li>natural language processing (NLP)<\/li>\n<li>computer vision<\/li>\n<li>speech recognition<\/li>\n<li>robotics and fraud detection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>salient features<\/strong> of these technologies are: predictable and repetitive results, there is reliance on Machine Learning (ML), they serve for process automation and predictive analytics, and the required human supervision is limited.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, generative AI instead finds use in areas such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>text generation and chatbots<\/li>\n<li>image creation<\/li>\n<li>speech synthesis<\/li>\n<li>music and sound creation<\/li>\n<li>deepfake<\/li>\n<li>product design and prototyping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The characteristics are very different from classical AI: the results are creative, that is, <strong>new with respect to the body of text and documents used as a database,<\/strong> we rely on Large Language Models (LLM), it is used mainly for the generation of text, images, presentations, and human supervision is absolutely essential.<\/p>\n<p>Going to the crux of the matter, while of course making simplifications, <strong>in the case of classical AI the benefits focus on efficiency<\/strong> because it reduces and speeds up human activities for the same result (Automation)<strong> while in the case of generative AI the benefits are represented by increased effectiveness <\/strong>which, while it might even increase human activities, can nevertheless improve their results and\/or create opportunities otherwise impossible to seize (Augmentation).<\/p>\n<h2>Measuring the impact of AI on HR activities<\/h2>\n<p>Estimating the impact of human-AI integration can be evaluated at the level of a <strong>use case<\/strong> (e.g., alignment between invoices and payments). Recall that a <strong>use case<\/strong> is a detailed description of how a user or system interacts with a software system or product to achieve a specific result.<\/p>\n<p>Although each organization has its own specifics and its own way of dealing with individual activities a <strong>use case<\/strong> approach is a good compromise between generalization and estimation accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>We therefore propose a two-dimensional matrix where we go to insert each use case. The two dimensions are the impact of human supervision and the repetitiveness of activities.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, we have four areas to which it corresponds:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full automation<\/strong> &#8211; when there is strong repetitiveness and human supervision is irrelevant. Human-AI integration (mostly of the \u201cclassical\u201d type) leads to significant savings in people work that can be directed to other activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Human lead<\/strong> &#8211; when the activity is not repetitive but human supervision is irrelevant. Human-AI integration leads to neither increased nor decreased activity for people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Human only<\/strong> &#8211; when the activity is not repetitive and the supervision and human element are the most valuable part in the activity. Person &#8211; AI integration does not change the activity contribution of people and <strong>is also not of great value.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Human Interface<\/strong> &#8211; supervision and human element are of great value but at the same time the activities are repetitive. Person &#8211; AI integration (mostly of the \u201cgenerative\u201d or hybrid \u201cclassical\u201d + \u201cgenerative\u201d type) leads both to labor savings for people and to more valuable results due to the back-end activity of AI.<\/p>\n<p>Although many people talk about AI, referring almost solely to Generative AI, still few are using it \u201cseriously\u201d and perhaps there is not enough debate about the impact that person-AI integration will have in companies.<\/p>\n<p>We at HRI believe that we must arrive at a responsible use of new technologies in stages: starting with literacy that must concern everyone &#8211; HR included &#8211; and then moving on to experimentation and adoption <strong>within a framework of values that put people and not technology at the center<\/strong> because, finally, the adoption of AI will radically change our operating models and transition to new professional skills.<\/p>\n<p>This path, if guided responsibly, we believe can be positive and growth enhancing for all. We are about to embark on it, are you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, March 25, the workshop \u201cHuman and Artificial Intelligence &#8211; New Models of Integration in Organizations, a Quantitative Approach\u201d was held, during which, in collaboration with the HR Innovation Practice Observatory, we deepened the themes of the Observatory&#8217;s March 19 workshop entitled \u201cHR and AI: The Evolution that passes through Human Resource Management.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/HR-intelligenza-artificiale-qmqwqob1k4v5fjv5p79ezkhr0hm8pvf35j8nvdt1s0.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrintelligence.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}