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<\/p>\nAs the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency adopts artificial intelligence into HR workflows, the organization is taking a prudent approach to ensure its workforce doesn\u2019t become overdependent on the technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy biggest fear is that in five years, we\u2019re going to lose a lot of expertise because we have automated so many of the things that have helped those individuals really understand their tradecraft, understand HR and the nuances and complexities and be able to grow,\u201d Sasha Muth, deputy director of human development at NGA, said Tuesday during a panel the Workday Federal Forum, presented by FedScoop.<\/p>\n
Muth\u2019s concerns come as the intel agency explores how AI capabilities can be leveraged to modernize the organization\u2019s HR processes \u2014 such as by speeding up mundane administrative tasks or using the technology to make more informed workforce decisions. The efforts are aligned with those happening at the Pentagon, which in recent months has begun pushing AI integration across the department.<\/p>\n
NGA has charted a five-year transformation plan to improve its human capital management enterprise with AI that includes strategies to develop the organization\u2019s workforce along with the technology, Muth explained. Part of that work entails nailing down the AI governance needed for HR modernization \u2014 which she described as a complicated situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do we enable the workforce to use AI decisions such as performance management and promotions? And how do we enable that and have those guardrails ensuring that we are not creating bias and that we are creating validation in the process?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Jay Harless, NGA\u2019s director of human development, noted during the panel that while the organization is moving fast on adopting AI, it is not trying to oversaturate workflows with the technology.<\/p>\n
He emphasized that while some key tasks can be done effectively with AI models, there are some missions within NGA that the technology will never be used for \u2014 such as final assessments and decision making.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are moving fast safely by distinguishing what should be automated, what should be augmented and what should be kept purely human,\u201d Harless said. \u201cThere are some things that will always be purely human.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tWritten by Mikayla Easley
\n\t\t\tMikayla Easley reports on the Pentagon\u2019s acquisition and use of emerging technologies. Prior to joining DefenseScoop, she covered national security and the defense industry for National Defense Magazine. She received a BA in Russian language and literature from the University of Michigan and a MA in journalism from the University of Missouri. You can follow her on Twitter @MikaylaEasley\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency adopts artificial intelligence into HR workflows, the organization is taking a prudent approach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,111,15183,4561,15184,15185,15186,15187],"class_list":{"0":"post-21817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-human-capital-management","12":"tag-human-resources","13":"tag-jay-harless","14":"tag-national-geospatial-intelligence-agency","15":"tag-nga","16":"tag-sasha-muth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}