AI for HR Weekly Podcast, brought to you by Barry Phillips

This week Barry Phillips asks whether AI is actually likely to make us busier and closer to burnout than ever before. 

This week Barry Phillips considers the rise of the significance of the AI-enabled HR professional and what it means for the workplace.

 This week Barry Phillips makes a cri de coeur and argues for the use at work of one important word that changes everything.

This week Barry Phillips argues that many organisations just aren’t providing HR with the clarity needed to do a good job implementing AI

This week Barry Phillips argues that AI slop isn’t a technology problem, it’s a human one that is quietly damaging trust, judgement and legal compliance at work.

AI didn't arrive overnight. Understanding where it came from changes how you prepare your people for what's next.

This week a triumphant Barry Phillips claims he’s found the one game changing AI tool that every workplace will want to use.

This week Barry Phillips asks:  what happens when your colleagues start confiding in machines? 

This week Barry Phillips looks at what to consider when choosing the right goto LLM for the workplace. 

This week Barry Phillips questions what we are being told about AI adoption rates and calls for a whole lot more scepticism.

This week, Barry Phillips, argues that the era of free GenAI use is coming to an end meaning big and difficult choices ahead for employers.

This week, Barry Phillips asks whether AI has finally delivered a huge time saver few organisations and employees seem to be using.

This week Barry Phillips offers his solution to the growing problem of how to regulate employee use of GenAI that haven’t been whitelisted.

This week Barry Phillips asks what will finally persuade employers to properly regulate AI usage in the workplace. 

We're constantly told that AI is transforming work. But here's the uncomfortable truth many organisations are getting it badly wrong. Bolting AI onto broken processes doesn't create transformation—it creates expensive chaos. Let me explain why. 

This week Barry Phillips asks whether the data security concerns around ChatGPT are really justified.

This week, Barry Phillips risks a single prediction for workplace AI and hopes he's wrong for this year at least.

This week Barry Phillips takes a look at the critical findings from Deloitte’s Tech Trends 2026 report.

This week Barry Phillips asks “Does AI have a reputation in the workplace that requires a complete rethink and rebrand?”

This week Barry Phillips argues that it may be time to relax the rules relating to use of ChatGPT in the workplace.

This week Barry Phillips shares six of his many takeaways from his AI keynote delivered this month.

As the EU released more details this week on how it plans to reduce the impact of the EU AI Act, Barry Phillips asks what we can do about this bended knee approach to the might of the US. 

This week Barry Phillips argues there will never be a better time for HR to enhance its professional standing than in this digital revolution.

This week Barry Phillips takes a look at some of the most significant AI reports of the year to so far.

This week Barry Phillips looks at the latest AI adoption figures in the US and draws conclusions for us here in Ireland and the UK. 

This week Barry Phillips asks himself whether it is time to go back on his earlier advice that there’s no such thing as the perfect prompt for an LLM.

This week Barry Phillips argues that AI can be simplified and is actually easy to understand. 

This week KPMG 2025 published their annual Global CEO Outlook report and its findings surprised a good many in HR

This week Barry Phillips reviews a position paper just published about AI in the Northern Ireland workplace. 

This week Barry Phillips takes a look at what is going on in the workplace with AI according to three recent heavyweight reports.

This week Barry Phillips considers whether or not employers are really winning the battle to recruit more efficiently using AI.

This week Barry Phillips considers the evolving shape of HR in the fast moving world of AI.

This week Barry Phillips looks at the new version of Gemini Pro Flash that takes image generation to a new level.

In the final part of the Review Barry Phillips argues that in talking about what disappoints us about ChatGPT5 we’re missing the point. 

In Part II of the Review Barry Phillips looks at what has changed both behind the curtain as well as front of house.

Over the next three weeks Barry Phillips will be reviewing the importance of ChatGPT5 for HR

This week Barry Phillips puts ChatGPT5 to the test and witnesses another big leap forwards.

This week Barry Phillips asks can we find the time to be excited about the imminent appearance of ChatGPT5?

This week Barry Phillips wonders why AI gets such a bad rap when it comes to workplace equality and points out that AI has introduced significant accessibility advances that have been largely ignored.

This week Barry Phillips considers the importance of the announcement that OpenAI is now in partnership with the UK Government. 

This week Barry Phillips reveals the results of LegalIsland’s digital coaching pilot and considers the pros and cons of AI coaching. 

This week Barry Phillips argues that it's not AI v HR but something very different and so much better.

This week Barry Phillips argues that GenAI makes us lazier or better and its entirely up to us…

This week Barry Phillips looks at a few stats that suggest HR needs to make bold moves in AI. 

This week Barry Phillips argues that the pace of change in most organisations now just isn’t anything like fast enough.

This week Barry Phillips looks to a recent international AI adoption report for an indication of what might be going on here.

This week Barry Phillips considers the rise of the AI coach in the workplace and whether it's time to try one.

This week Barry Phillips considers whether the new AI efficiency drives will lead to lay offs or to company growth.

This week Barry Phillips considers the importance of the Microsoft Build Conference and what it tells us about the true impact of AI

This week Barry Phillips shares the results of a survey of Irish employers and has reason to worry