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Leading recruiter warns
on the emergence of AI
in the workplace
With the rise of AI across
all industries, Gi Group,
one of the UK’s leading HR
and recruitment specialists,
explains how it can shape
the future of the recruitment
industry and why this societal
shift shouldn’t be ignored.
I’s implementation is becoming Innovation and Technology (DSIT) recently
Aincreasingly part of big business published guidance in its Responsible AI in
conversations, most recently former Google Recruitment: Guidance. From fake job ads
chief, Eric Schmidt, telling Labour Business and AI resumes, to recruitment bias and digital
Summit that attracting ‘incredibly smart discrimination, the industry has been hit by a
people’, would help prepare the UK for AI. wave of new challenges.
New AI systems are now readily available for Rebecca Napier, IT Business Partner at
both HR professionals and candidates alike, Gi Group, comments: “It was only a matter
but what does this all really mean?
of time before AI methods were being
The industry has seen such a spike in the implemented on both sides of the recruitment
use of AI that the Department for Science, process, but as with every tech shift, it is
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