AI isn’t something HR “adopts.” It reshapes how employees experience performance - how they’re hired, coached, developed, and retained. The challenge is avoiding the extremes: shiny productivity hype or fear-driven replacement narratives. In this fireside chat, Kat Noren (Brightside) and Ben Grafentin (Rippling) share how to use AI as a performance enhancer - improving feedback quality, skill development, and early intervention - without eroding trust. Through real-world examples, we’ll explore how HR can transform qualitative feedback into actionable growth, identify burnout and attrition risks earlier, and maintain credibility when leaders pose challenging questions.The result: a more human, fair, and effective performance system—powered by better signals, not surveillance.