Welcome to SHRM Global Radio, the podcast where today’s workforce challenges meet tomorrow’s strategic thinking. and in this episode, we’re turning our focus to a skill that is quietly reshaping hiring decisions, performance reviews, learning agendas, and leadership pipelines across the globe: AI literacy. Not in the abstract, not someday, but now.

In organisations everywhere - from healthcare to hospitality, manufacturing to media – employees, and indeed entire teams, are being asked to not just adopt AI tools, but to understand them, critique them, and collaborate with them. And HR departments aren’t mere spectators in this shift, they’re at the centre of these experiments and deployments. As AI becomes embedded in job roles, workflows, and enterprise systems, a new mandate is emerging: to ensure employees at every level are equipped to partner with AI responsibly and effectively.