| dc.description.abstract | ChatGPT and its variants that use generative artificial
intelligence (AI) models have rapidly become a focal point
in academic and media discussions about their poten tial benefits and drawbacks across various sectors of the
economy, democracy, society, and environment. It remains
unclear whether these technologies result in job displace ment or creation, or if they merely shift human labour
by generating new, potentially trivial or practically irrel evant, information and decisions. According to the CEO of ChatGPT, the potential impact of this new family of AI
technology could be as big as “the printing press”, with
significant implications for employment, stakeholder rela tionships, business models, and academic research, and its
full consequences are largely undiscovered and uncertain.
The introduction of more advanced and potent generative
AI tools in the AI market, following the launch of ChatGPT,
has ramped up the “AI arms race”, creating continuing
uncertainty for workers, expanding their business appli cations, while heightening risks related to well-being, bias,
misinformation, context insensitivity, privacy issues, ethi cal dilemmas, and security. Given these developments, this
perspectives editorial offers a collection of perspectives
and research pathways to extend HRM scholarship in the
realm of generative AI. In doing so, the discussion synthe sizes the literature on AI and generative AI, connecting it to
various aspects of HRM processes, practices, relationships,
and outcomes, thereby contributing to shaping the future
of HRM research | vi |
