Companies are charging ahead with AI—even though middle managers are not ready for it

As Joelle Emerson has watched companies cull the ranks of middle management and pour resources into AI, there has been one key question on her mind: What role is the chief people officer playing in that shift?  “I think chief people officers should be leaders in the transformation [that] organizations are undergoing right now with AI,” says Emerson, the cofounder and CEO of culture and inclusion platform Paradigm. “I see a lot of companies making a lot of changes very, very quickly—for example, collapsing management layers.” “It makes me wonder where the chief people officer is in some of t...