Responsible AI Without the Red Tape: A Practical Boardroom for HR Leaders

You can’t spell “HR” without “AI” these days, but responsible adoption is harder when HR doesn’t own legal, risk, or enterprise governance. In this closed-door boardroom, HR executives will explore how to assess, contextualize, and mitigate AI risk without becoming blockers or defaulting to “no.”

Grounded in the Human-Centric AI Council’s Responsible AI Frameworks, this session moves beyond theory to help HR leaders build credibility with legal, privacy, and business partners—while still enabling innovation and impact.

Participants will explore:

• How to triage AI use cases to distinguish low-risk/high-impact opportunities from genuinely high-risk applications
• A practical risk lens for HR, spanning compliance, bias, operational failure, trust, and adoption—not just regulation
• Why “risk avoidance” fails, and how to contextualize risk relative to business impact and organizational tolerance
• What strong HR–legal collaboration actually looks like, including how to show up informed and prepared
• Real-world case examples of AI initiatives that succeeded—or failed—based on how risk and complexity were understood and managed