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Adapting to technological change in the workplace is nothing new, but the pace at which AI is evolving, and the lack of time leaders have to stop and think, makes for a unique challenge.

The rapid rise of AI has led to many questions around how it can and should be used – questions that leaders should be asking themselves and their teams, says workplace and leadership specialist Michelle Gibbings.

Questions include how to use AI to create a healthy, thriving work environment; how to balance efficiency and profitability gains with employee rights and needs; how to ensure appropriate transparency around the use of AI and how to avoid unintended bias.

The answers will depend on "the type of the workforce that you have, and what your workforce does", Gibbings tells HR Daily. It's a matter of "making those decisions very deliberately, about what type of organisation, what type of culture, that you want"...