AEDIPE Congress. Empowering talent

Every year AEDIPE – The Spanish Association of People Management and Development – holds an International Congress with the aim of creating a space for HR professionals. A Congress in which to learn, update their knowledge, share experiences, practices and discuss the most current issues in People Management.

This year, the AEDIPE Aragón delegation welcomed 300 HR professionals on September 28 and 29 to learn and discuss “People and Sustainability” at the 56th International Congress.

“The intelligent use of technology, promotion, integration, team welfare, creativity in decision making, always subordinating it to people, are the main themes of this meeting”.

Pedro Ribes, National President of Aedipe.

Human AI at the service of talent

Being sponsors of the Congress, part of the Human AI team – María Beunza – CEO; Noelia Sanz – COO; and Iñigo Benito – Innovation manager – attended ready to learn and provide solutions for professional development and employability with our artificial intelligence tool at the service of people management, profile selection and emotional well-being of the team.

One of our challenges is to address digital, cultural and human transformation in companies to help talent management professionals from technological innovation.

Human AI puts AI and psycholinguistics at the service of social-emotional competences”

Our priority is the person and for this our best ally is artificial intelligence. It is the HR professionals themselves who put into context the knowledge provided by Human AI through a personalized report of the person being evaluated.

This report – made from a natural language text of the person – offers the evaluation of 35 softskills and the five traits based on the OCEAN Model. It is in turn capable of providing group and customized reports according to the needs of the users. This eliminates the need for tedious questionnaires, avoids self-perception bias and enables the HR department to assess and develop the emotional and social skills of their team or to select the right profiles.

Human AI saves time and money in contrast to traditional psychometric tests. It is capable of receiving both written texts and voice notes, which are automatically transcribed without retaining biometric information. Human AI guarantees user privacy and data security at all times. We are committed to developing ethical and responsible AI.

If you are an HR professional, join the challenge of empowering and developing talent in an effective, simple and reliable way.

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University and Business: collaborative innovation

“Navarra, leader in Artificial Intelligence thanks to the collaboration between Technology Centers and companies”, this is how ATANA describes the conference “NavarraIAConnect – Building together an intelligent future‘”, a space around AI – organized by this Technology and Consulting Cluster – in which different Technology Centers presented projects developed in collaboration with companies from various productive sectors of Navarra, among them Human AI and the University of Navarra.

Our CTO and co-founder, Roberto Aguirre, together with Iván Cordón, Director of Innovation at DATAI – Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence of the UNAV, presented how it is possible to collaborate between university and business by putting university research at the service of technological and business application thanks to the development of an AI capable of “evaluating 35 socio-emotional skills with just 1000 words, an AI platform aimed at both educational centers and companies that want to assess and enhance their team”, reports ATANA.

How you write, that’s how you are

When we talk about AI,” says Roberto Aguirre, “almost everyone associates it with technology, but not with personality, with people. We saw that it could also help in that, in the matter of seeing how people work, how artificial intelligence can be applied to this type of knowledge”.

“When you express yourself naturally, you expose yourself.”

AI applied to psycholinguistics “makes it possible to deduce the personality of someone who has written a text by analyzing writing patterns or word repetition. There are a lot of parameters.” “When you are asked to write about whatever you want and you start a narrative talking about yourself and yourself, for example, or you use the first person singular many times, or in verbs you always put positive adjectives next to it,” the personality is being reflected, because “it is relatively difficult to mask it,” Aguirre pointed out.

“From more than 35 variables, Human AI makes it possible to determine a person’s socioemotional competencies and to deduce their levels of emotional instability or neuroticism, openness or ability to collaborate, among other parameters”.

Different professional fields

Human AI is at the service of professionals who work on personal development and well-being from the socio-emotional dimension.

“At our origin it was education, to help teachers work better in the classroom, basically, but the topic of job search also came up, since your collaboration skills you are going to be able to improve if you know you have a need, obviously; if you don’t know, you can’t do it.”

“You can determine which person is able to work better in a team,” Cordón explains, referring to one of those skills most in demand by companies today. This technology can also be “very important” in the field of sports.

“Athletes don’t just have to be physically good, they have to have mental capacity.”

“As one person told us, those who fall by the wayside are not precisely because they are not physically good, but because they do not have the right personality to overcome everything they have to overcome,” and in this area, the AI “is a clear value for coaches,” Aguirre added.

News in the media: Artificial intelligence designed in Navarra to analyze the personality of the author of a text

How to get to know the athlete well through artificial intelligence

Part of the Human AI team was present at the World Football Summit, the International Congress of the soccer industry that took place last September 20 and 21 at the Congress and Exhibition Palace of Seville.

Our CEO María Beunza was interviewed by DT-Deporte Technology, an online platform specialized in sport and healthy living in the digital era.

“Athletes, clubs, as well as ordinary people, are increasingly using technologies that help them to perform better and be better. This is our focus. We are part of an ecosystem that is gaining more and more presence every day, due to the enormous importance that competitive sport and health sport have in our lives. Digital technology has given it an unprecedented dimension, which also brings about enormous changes. Our mission is to report on them and analyze them”.

This is how they define themselves, and it is precisely to inform about the mission of Human AI comes to cover theirs: we are a technology at the service of human development, we affect the socioemotional performance of the athlete, impacting integrally on their sports performance using artificial intelligence.

How?

María Beunza, our CEO, tells us.

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An innovative partnership in education – Latam

Education in Latam moves towards a promising future

A pioneering collaboration begins that will help transform the educational landscape in Latin America. The school network Itinere in Argentina and Uruguay has joined the innovation ecosystem of Human AI, a company that develops tools based on responsible artificial intelligence, to establish a pioneering educational innovation hub in the region.

This innovative agreement promises to revolutionize the way in which students and teachers develop socioemotional competencies, avoiding traditional tools and their drawbacks, in addition to promoting cutting-edge research projects in collaboration with universities and Human AI experts.

“The collaboration between the Itinere network of schools and HumanAI will allow students and teachers to reach their full potential, which is both a right and a pillar for education to be a great engine of change and social belonging.”

Darío Alvarez Klar, Founder and Director of Itínere Red Educativa

Integral development of competencies supported by ethical IA

At the heart of this strategic alliance is a shared commitment to driving holistic competency development. With the help of responsible, evidence-based AI from Human AI, innovative tools will be co-designed to assist management teams, teachers and students in their personal and academic growth. This will mark a milestone in Latin American education by combining Itinere’s pedagogical expertise with Humana AI’s cutting-edge technology.

“Our collaboration involves fostering socioemotional competencies among students and teachers, conducting cutting-edge research projects and harnessing the power of innovation together with universities and experts within the Human AI ecosystem.”

María Beunza, CEO of Human AI.

Getting it right in the selection of profiles

🔵 Article originally published in the magazine “Dirigir Personas” of AEDIPE – Spanish Association of People Management and Development, you can read it here.

Noelia Sanz, COO of Human AI

Surely we have all experienced the consequences of poor selection, both in recruitment and in internal promotion processes. We have always heard that you hire for aptitude and fire for attitude. It is almost more important how an employee behaves than how much technical knowledge he or she has of something, because a person with a high capacity for learning will always be able to acquire that knowledge. However, it is not so easy to mold the personality to acquire skills that do not come “as standard”. This is why it is crucial to get the profile selection right.

Also, even if the HR team is highly experienced, there is always a human predisposition to bias, the great enemy of selection interviews, as well as of tests, because of candidates’ self-perception. However, AI has arrived to complement that function and facilitate the analysis of the socioemotional competencies we are trying to look for in that interview or with other selection tests. We can now count on Human AI, an objective assistant to help us match the selected profile to the position to be filled. Thanks to psycholinguistics and natural language processing (NLP), we can obtain an immediate report of 35 socioemotional competencies (soft skills), simply by analyzing a text or a 1000-word voice transcript.

In addition, we have developed an ethical and digital code of conduct to be adhered to in order to access our services.

What competencies does it measure exactly? Those of the Big 5/OCEAN model? for personality (McRae & John 1992), the most widely accepted model by the international scientific community, which the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has used to base its model of socioemotional competencies worldwide in the educational and professional sphere:

With the assessment of these competencies, we can further refine the “qualitative” traits of the evaluated candidate and choose the one who best suits the characteristics of the position to be filled. And for those who are not selected, we can send them their individualized report with guidelines for improvement, which will reinforce our employer brand.

Perhaps the HR team may see AI as a threat, however, it is a great ally that in no case will replace its function, but will enhance and complement it. The many advantages of this virtual assistant include a drastic reduction in the time spent analyzing information and writing reports, which will speed up the time it takes to fill vacancies. And, in the short term, it will reduce turnover, as we will have made a better selection by matching the required profile.

It is true that the use case is not limited exclusively to the moment of incorporation. There are other situations in which this assistant can become our best companion. It can help to establish career plans for the employee, reinforcing those competencies that need to be improved, or assigning him a mentor to help him in the process. Human AI also offers the possibility to see the evolution over time of the development of competencies, checking if these plans are being effective.

On the other hand, this tool can help to cover an internal promotion with candidates from within the organization. How many times do we make the mistake of promoting a good technician who does not have the managerial skills to assume the function? How many times do we doubt about the interest or bias in the performance evaluations? Or candidates are proposed for “cronyism” who do not really meet the required profile for that department. With the Human AI report we can find the best internal candidate for the vacant position because, not only will we have the individualized report, but we can compare the results of all of them, competency by competency, to choose the most suitable one.

It can also be a good tool for calibrating corporate culture or values. If any of us were asked which employees best represent our corporate culture, a few names would surely come to mind. And not only for their technical knowledge but also for their way of doing, behaving, leading and influencing. Imagine if you could start recruiting profiles with similar patterns to theirs. By simply analyzing these “benchmark” employees to find out their assessment of these 35 competencies, you could use their results as the optimal selection parameters.

In definitive, Human AI is a tool that enhances the work of the HR department to provide a better service to the organization with objectivity, immediacy and without the need to torment people with the “psychometric ordeal”.

“Oh the AI!”

Creativity versus AI, the impact of AI in professions and trades, the use of GPT chat in the classroom, AI-based avatars as a teaching tool and ethics and values in the use of AI were some of the issues addressed by the various speakers at the conference for teachers “Oh the AI” organized by the Navarre Employment Service at the Civican in Pamplona; moderated by Rubén León, a journalist from Spanish Television.

“Education has to change, it can no longer be focused on the industrial model and must open doors to a digital world” said teacher Rubén Jiménez, in the block on creativity and AI.

Carlos Fernández de Vigo – film director, screenwriter and video game creator – spoke about the AI revolution in our lives as a historic opportunity. From Emotional Films – a new interactive audiovisual format that aims to offer audiences an experience that adapts in real time to their emotions and other key audience data – they have carried out projects with AI, among others, with the Cervantes Institute. “Movies are not the same depending on who is watching them and at what time they are watching them, they evolve with the viewer.”

Their vision of technology is philosophical and includes many sociological, pedagogical, psychological, neuromarketing, lawyer and engineer profiles. “We are people who want our creations to live on. We have made short films with people who were recycled from other sectors and thanks to technology they did the reskilling”.

Francesc Pujol – writer and teacher at the University of Navarra – with his vision of active network explorer started using ChatGPT because he imagined a radical impact on the learning process, both his own and regulated. He has learned to integrate it from practice and testing, without waiting to be told about it and advocating that all student work should be delivered together with the methodology used to carry it out, the screenshots of the questions to ChatGPT, assuming that from now on it will be an inevitable and indeed recommended use.

“You don’t have to wait to be an expert to use ChatGPT, no high training is necessary and it has a lot of self-learning. We have to give ourselves the right to explore and make mistakes in the use of AI” says Francesc. “ChatGPT should be used to ask about things we know, this seems counter-intuitive but it involves improving the things you already do.” Conclusion, let ChatGPT work for you and not instead of you, let it be an assistant and not an agent.

Finally, Elena Alemán is president of LucIA foundation, an initiative that aims to achieve a degree of knowledge, development and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystems equivalent to those achieved in recent decades in the field of renewable energies. For his part, he presented the topic “Ethics and values in AI”.

Good uses? AI is making our lives easier, to help us with more global issues: health, environment, research thanks to a lot of rapidly processed data. Dark” uses? Since AI decides and generates content, it is important to know with what values and criteria it has been trained and the ownership of the data.

“Technology is ahead of legislation, in Europe a regulation is going to be generated in the first quarter of the year 24. What can we do? Training, communication and AI to combat AI.”

Why is it relevant to generate creative contexts in sports?

“Decision-making is trained by playing, making the player feel like a protagonist.”

Pep Guardiola, former soccer player and coach.

What better way to train decision making than through the game?

The magic of soccer begins when the ball is put in motion.

Players must make quick decisions, adapt to circumstances and learn to play in synchrony. With the ball stationary the defensive position is quickly structured, on the move uncertainty takes over the opponent.

Each pass, each movement is a decision made. The more you train, the more decisions are made and the better the player becomes at reading the game, generating tactics and improvised plays.

Soccer is dynamic, fluid and full of uncertainties; it is not a game of predictable movements where the pieces move following a set pattern.

The danger of automation in training is real. If players become accustomed to rigid patterns and repetitive training, they are likely to lose the ability to innovate on the field.

“I understand positional play, attacking spaces… but I believe that as coaches we have to take care of that supposed, or real, lack of creativity. I think a creative player unlocks those block defenses. A creative player is creative, inventing something different when everything is monotonous”.

Pablo Aimar, technical director of Argentina’s Under 17 team

Sporting success manifests itself when a player is able to make unique passes and plays in unpredictable situations. Innovation cannot flourish in an environment where everything is mechanical.

Soccer is a sport of emotions, decisions and constant movement that requires one ingredient to transform a good player into a true genius: creativity.

Coaches have the responsibility to develop this competence by bringing out all the talent and potential of their players. This way of coaching will make the difference on the field: making exciting plays or changing the destiny of a match.

If you work in the sports world and are looking to develop socio-emotional competencies, discover our AI tool, Human AI, an innovative technology at the service of human development.

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Innovation in AI for social-emotional learning

Finalists in EXPOELEARNING 2024

Human AI – the artificial intelligence (AI) tool at the service of socioemotional learning and human well-being – was chosen as a finalist in the “Best Innovation in Training” category at EXPOELEARNING 2024, the largest professional meeting and reference event in Digital Learning.

HumanAI Tech has been recognized for its innovative approach to the development of students’ socioemotional skills, adapting to their needs and personality. The tool is based on AI to personalize learning and improve academic performance, motivation, self-esteem and overall well-being.

An enriching event

  • To find keys to implement eLearning in organizations.
  • Learn about innovative technologies
  • Listen to successful projects
  • Discover a wide digital learning ecosystem
  • To learn more about emerging training trends
  • To be able to choose the most disruptive format for Corporate Learning projects
  • Create synergies and networking
  • Discover the most suitable platform for your company or institution

EXPOELEARNING 2024 was an opportunity to be updated with the latest trends in innovation, technology and new learning formats.

A stand full of connections and learning

During the two days of the event, the Human AI team attended a large number of visitors at booth 9, where they could learn about the tool and its benefits. In addition, synergies were created with other professionals in the sector, there was an opportunity to meet again with friends from Navarra and allies, and new opportunities for collaboration were opened.

We continue with the desire and enthusiasm to continue growing and transforming the sector of training, talent and human development, committing ourselves to continue working for a more human and innovative AI that puts technology at the service of the welfare of people.

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Understanding Personality: OCEAN Model

“Who are you?”

It is a fairly simple question, but it is one of the most difficult to answer.

There are many ways to interpret this question. One answer might include name, profession, family role, hobbies, passions, or geographic or birthplace. A more complete answer might include a description of beliefs and values.

Each of us has a different answer to this question and each answer tells a story about who we are. While we may have much in common with our peers, such as country, culture, eye color… there is one thing that makes each of us unique: personality.

Throughout life we may meet many people, but no two will be exactly alike. How do we categorize and classify something as varied and unique as personality?

OCEAN Model

The OCEAN/Big Five model (McRae & John 1992) is one of the most widespread personality inventories in modern psychology; it is a very valuable tool for understanding human personality.

It is currently the most widespread and widely accepted descriptive model in the international scientific community for assessing and structuring human personality and behavior. It has a wide variety of applications and is used in fields as diverse as education, work and therapy, and is linked to social-emotional competencies or soft-skills.

It is considered one of the most reliable and consistent personality models in psychological research, demonstrating high reliability and predictive validity in a wide variety of contexts, including the workplace, education and mental health.

The five factors

The Big 5 are the five traits or factors that explain and characterize the differences in both personality and decision making of the individual.

  • Openness to experience: The willingness to experience new ideas, emotions and experiences.
  • Responsibility: The ability to act in a conscious and committed manner.
  • Extraversion: Sociability, activity, thrill-seeking, positivity and impulsiveness.
  • Agreeableness: Willingness to cooperate and help others, as well as sensitivity to the needs of others.
  • Neuroticism: Negative emotional experience and instability.

Each of these main traits is further described in 6 facets (personality is characterized by 30 facets). For example, the Kindness dimension is divided into Trust in Others, Openness, Altruism, Cooperation, Modesty and Empathy.

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Applications of the model

The OCEAN model is used in a wide variety of applications, including:

  • Education: Helping students to better understand their own learning style and develop more effective learning strategies, personalizing their educational path.
  • Educational guidance: Helping students understand their preferences and aptitudes in order to perform better academically and make decisions about their future careers.
  • Recruitment (HR): Helping companies identify candidates with the most suitable characteristics for a given position and being able to predict job performance.
  • Desarrollo profesional: Ayudar a las personas a comprender sus puntos fuertes y sus áreas de mejora para desarrollar su potencial, sus habilidades interpersonales y su capacidad de liderazgo.
  • Professional development: Helping people to understand their strengths and areas for improvement in order to develop their potential, interpersonal skills and leadership capabilities.
  • Psychology and mental health: Therapists can use this model to assess patients’ personalities, detect certain psychological problems and adapt their therapeutic approaches accordingly.

Interrelation between factors

The five dimensions of the OCEAN model are independent of each other. Each dimension of the model can be studied separately, but it is interesting to analyze how they relate to each other.

It is important to remember that the OCEAN model is not a measure of “good or bad,” but simply a way of describing different aspects of human personality. The dimensions are not mutually exclusive, and a person may have different levels in different areas of his or her life or at different times. This means that a person may be high on one dimension and low on another. For example, a person may be high in responsibility but low in extraversion or agreeableness, or a person may be extroverted and responsible, or introverted and creative.

Studying the interaction between the dimensions of the OCEAN model can yield much information about how individual differences manifest themselves in human behavior.

Profile examples

Some examples of personality profiles according to the OCEAN model:

  • High in extraversion and low in responsibility: Enjoys socializing and entertaining, but may have difficulty fulfilling work or school responsibilities.
  • High in extraversion and low in agreeableness: Outgoing and sociable, but may also be competitive and inconsiderate of others.
  • High in neuroticism and low in agreeableness: Frequently experiences intense negative emotions and may have difficulty relating to others effectively.
  • High in neuroticism and low in responsibility: Experiences frequent negative emotions and may have difficulty meeting daily responsibilities.

Personality, psycholinguistics & AI

The latest advances in psycholinguistics make it possible to predict personality from textual information using the novel open vocabulary approach. Together with the speed and accuracy of artificial intelligence analysis, Human AI provides accurate and immediate personality assessments and reports.

Personality assessments provide the 5 traits of the OCEAN model, as well as the facets of each trait, in an immediate, accurate, user-friendly and easy-to-use individual report. Group reports are also available, and we can develop custom reports upon request.

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Inclusive innovation: empowering capabilities with AI

“From the School of Special Education El Molino of Pamplona we decided to participate in the Human AI project in order to give voice and visibility to people with intellectual disabilities in the development of new tools or applications with Artificial Intelligence (AI)”.

Natalia Galbán – Docente en el Colegio de Educación Especial El Molino

At Human AI, we believe in the potential of artificial intelligence to improve people’s lives. That is why we are committed to the application of Human AI in centers such as El Molino Special Education School, a project that allows accessibility to tools with artificial intelligence for people with intellectual disabilities. This project represents a technological advance and a commitment to inclusion.

Key points of the project:

  • Professional support and human accompaniment: we provide educators and professionals with assessment and analysis tools based on the needs of each student.
  • Inclusion and accessibility to artificial intelligence tools: we develop intuitive and accessible tools, ensuring that people with intellectual disabilities have an active presence in the digital world.
  • Assessment, personalization and training in social-emotional skills and competencies: we offer personality and social-emotional competency assessments that are immediate, accurate and easy to interpret, allowing for more effective and personalized interventions.

At Human AI, we are convinced that the collaboration with the Molino School is just the beginning of a path of working together to build a more inclusive and accessible future for all people.