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AI | When employees become 'lower-value human capital', HR should worry

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When Standard Chartered boss Bill Winters described employees at risk of redundancy as “lower-value human capital”, it’s no surprise the comments caused a big stir.

Especially when the chief executive of the global bank was referring to thousands of job cuts that were tied to artificial intelligence implementation.

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