HRExaminer Roundup: November 17, 2025

Power, The Death of HR, The Life of HR, AI and Safety, AI Tutorial, Displacement Debunked

Here’s what’s been happening this past weekat the HRExaminer.

Social and technological change is everywhere. AI introduces the ability to rethink all of the silos in an organization. In the process of automating everything, it becomes possible to rethink how the pieces go together. It’s what transformation really looks like.

This week’s articles and interview looks at a number of facets of the transformation we are in. HR is evolving. The underlying tech is evolving How and why are the questions. The technology is moving quickly. What that looks like and what it means for safety are subtopics.

• Let’s Ruin Everything
  Heather tackles the ‘Women are Ruining the Workplace’ article in the New York Times. Prompted by

  Jess Von Bank
  article.

• The Sky is Falling
  HR is under extreme pressure to change. This is a view of what the future might look like. Parts of HR should migrate elsewhere in the organization.

• How Safety Happens
  Every new technology begins as a safety problem. It takes time to get it right. AI is no different. Here’s how safety evolves in any new technology. Safety in AI includes security, bias protections, psychological safety, ethical guardrails, and more.

• HREX v1.1 Navigating the AI Landscape: From Big Data to LLMs
  Heather interviews John for our first podcast. Get a tour of the history of AI.

• sum things considered v1.0
  A weekly set of loosely clustered links and comments. This week looks at economics…recession, ai, work, job loss, underlying reasons

• The End of work as we know it.
  A look back at the history f technologies that were going to eliminate jobs and workers. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.