By Carlos Tse
Publication Date: 2025-12-30 07:04:00
There remains a “reflection gap” in best practices for AI use in the workplace between action planning and measures to overcome ethical weaknesses in the face of productivity demands, an ethicist said.
In a current HR Leader podcast, Dr. Frosted Beard (pictured), ethicist and program director of the Vincent Fairfax Fellowship at the Cranlana Center, explained to HR Leader the myriad ethical dilemmas and considerations in the workplace in the current climate, whether AI is increasing concerns that human relationships will be marginalized in the post-pandemic world, whether companies are aware of these concerns, and what he believes are the biggest challenges to ethics and culture in the workplace right now.
Ethical fading
The idea that AI will make us more efficient and productive will cause other things to take a back seat, Beard said. “If there is a really strong main goal where other values and other things that are also important kind of disappear…
