Rise of the machine: AI, is this the death of HR?

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more recently, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has fundamentally changed the landscape for businesses, were tasks reliant on human judgement and creativity, can now be easily undertaken by AI with some specific human guidance. This is especially prevalent in human resource management, where the AI technology has been embraced for some years. The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of AI on the HR role, and whether the machines will take over the function. To do this we have used a narrative literature review, where we identified that there are many complementary elements to the linkages between AI and HR, thus improving the capacity of HR. Human judgement, however, is the core requirement for effective HR which is a limitation of AI applications, leading us to conclude that AI will not be the death of HR.