Our AI, Data, and Analytics Team thought leaders have pulled together their top predictions for the new year so that employers can get a running start to 2025.
Federal Government Will Be Hands-Off on AI – But the States Will Fill the Gap
- Trump will revoke Biden’s AI Executive Order by February, and his agency heads will follow suit to rescind current guidance. AI Czar David Sacks will emphasize innovation and industry collaboration, so we’ll see D.C. take a light touch when it comes to AI regulation. Some existing guidance will be replaced with broad, industry-friendly guidelines, others will simply be deleted. And we won’t see any big AI legislation from Congress.
- California or New York is going to pass something big. Expect disclosure and opt-out requirements for workers and applicants. We’ll soon see a patchwork of state laws with different approaches for addressing AI bias and other AI legal issues, as over 30 states have already convened AI committees and taskforces that will cook up proposed legislation that will start to get passed from coast to coast.
- Someone new to D.C. is going to get wrapped up in an AI-related scandal. Get your bingo boards ready!
The Wave of Workplace AI Litigation Will Truly Begin
Your Workplace Transformation Will Continue at a Breakneck Pace
- AI Governance will become all-but-mandatory. It will allow companies to adopt AI with guardrails to help mitigate liability and risk issues.
- AI will become an integral part of managing safety in industrial workplaces. It will be used more frequently to predict and intervene to prevent workplace injuries.
- Schrödinger’s AI will have job seekers favoring pro-AI employers that show off their productivity suite in job postings, while objecting to any AI being used to grade their applications.
Your Own Business Habits Will Forever Be Changed
- You’re going to open Microsoft Word one day in 2025 and be greeted by your new in-document AI Drafting Assistant. Will it be Clippy 2.0? Or something more useful?
- Autonomous AI Agents will take things to the next level. Going on a trip? AI will not only create a perfect itinerary but make the reservations for you. It will also help employers automate administrative work so employees can focus more on higher skills tasks.
- Will AI become your new best friend? In 2025, we will see AI being marketed as not only a business tool but a personal friend. Open AI has already warned that users may become emotionally connected to its advanced voice mode. Other LLMs will follow that lead. Will AI also become your life coach and therapist?
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