AI is giving HR chiefs a new job

The hard part of AI is not deploying the technology. It is reimagining the work, and the workforce that will do it.

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In April 2026, the collaboration software company Atlassian gave Avani Prabhakar a new job. She had been running a 700-person HR team. Now she oversees 3,500 people responsible for AI transformation across the company’s 14,000 employees. Her new title: chief people and AI enablement officer.

She was not the first. In May 2025, Moderna, the biotech company, merged its HR and IT departments and put the combined organization under Tracey Franklin, its chief human resources officer (CHRO), now chief people and digital technology officer. In March 2026, Lumen Technologies, a communications services company, expanded the........

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