Chief People Offender Caught with pie on their faces, some human resources departments are copping to using ChatGPT and other generative AI tools to write important policy documents. In an interview with Forbes, the CEO of the HR consultancy Humani said that one of her clients was faced with a peculiar and self-inflicted fiasco: in the midst of an escalating harassment claim, its AI-generated employee handbook just straight up didn’t have the policy to handle it. During a discussion about the debacle, the unnamed client “sheepishly” told Carly Holm, the CEO of Humani, that ChatGPT had written its employee handbook and left out the key anti-harassment section. “If the workplace does not have appropriate policies in place like a zero tolerance policy for sexual harassment, workplace violence, etc, the investigation will then look at the employer, and there will be consequences,” Holm told the magazine. “So they realized, ‘Wow, we should have brought in professionals to write these policies the proper way.'” This is not, of course, anywhere near the first time AI has been used to write legally important documents. In the 18 months since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, we’ve seen headline after headline about the popular software being used to write everything from judicial rulings to legal briefs. As HR professionals told Forbes, this practice is common on the employer side of things as well, and companies have begun using ChatGPT to write offer letters and separation agreements, too. Those same HR experts noted that while using AI…Company "Sheepishly" Admits Its Employee Handbook Was Generated With ChatGPT, Doesn’t Have Anti-Harassment Policy