Unlocking AI's Potential: Navigating AI Compliance

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially transformative suite of technologies. Harnessed in the right way, organisations can positively impact productivity and enhance meaningful work, and employment. This is implicit for Ireland to remain competitive. However, businesses are learning in the flow of implementation and need to be cognisant of the risks and principles for ethical use.

In a series of webinars Ibec will look at related implications for compliance, productivity, and HR best practice to help interested members on their journey to developing a workplace of the future.

Part One:
In this session, Erik O’Donovan (Head of Digital Economy Policy, EU and International Affairs), Harry Wall (Associate Legal Director), and Vicky O’Neill (HR Strategy Specialist) provide an update on the EU AI Act, and guidance on regulation of AI in the Workplace.

Artificial intelligence has very much entered the mainstream over the past 18 months or so, with generative AI programs such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini and others very much to the fore. It has swiftly become apparent that AI technology is capable of much more than drawing up an itinerary for your upcoming holiday, or finally providing an answer to the question that has troubled humankind for centuries – whether the chicken or egg came first (spoiler alert: the egg apparently). More and more companies are beginning to recognise, and to harness, the benefits inherent in utilising AI in the workplace, and in particular the potential efficiencies it can engender across HR processes and functions.

Of course, as with any technology that ultimately impacts on individuals in an employment setting, AI cannot exist in a vacuum and those organisations that wish to integrate AI into their HR systems need to be mindful of the various ways in which such use of AI is regulated.