Introduction

0:27 Hello learners, welcome back to the course on AI in Human Resource Management. Today, we start a new module—a module that looks into the challenges and future opportunities of AI in HRM. We will try to see what the challenges are, and as it is popularly known, within challenges lie opportunities. So, we'll look into the opportunities with respect to AI in HRM. I'm Dr. Abraham Cyril Issac. I'm an assistant professor at the School of Business, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.

0:56 Now, when you look into AI in HRM, we have seen what AI is doing to HRM and how it is transforming the human resource management landscape altogether. In those discussions, we have also seen some of the critical barriers, biases, problems, and inherent challenges. We'll try to look into this from different angles. Let's say, what are the structural challenges? What are the financial barriers? What are the technological challenges? What are the ethical concerns? What are the legal challenges?

1:22 So, we will try to categorize them. We'll try to have clean understanding about them. the challenges of AI in HRM in this particular lecture. So let's go into that in detail. When you look into AI in HR, specifically with respect to the problems or with respect to the challenges,