Brianna Harter
At the forefront of AI adoption in industrial-organizational psychology. Brianna helps governments, industries and the people inside them adopt AI in ways they can trust, use and sustain.
Technology changes what is possible. Psychology determines what people will actually do with it.
The human side of artificial intelligence.
Most AI initiatives do not fail on the technology. They fail on people: on trust, on unclear roles, and on leaders who underestimate how much a new system changes the daily work of everyone around it.
Brianna brings the discipline of industrial-organizational psychology to that problem. Her work applies established research in technology acceptance, change readiness, workforce development and organizational behavior to the decisions organizations are making about AI right now.
She is the founder of Hardamont Partners, an I-O psychology firm focused on AI adoption and change management, and the host of The Brianna Harter Show.
Where her work concentrates
AI adoption strategy
How organizations move from pilot to everyday use, and what determines whether people use the tools they are given.
Change management
Readiness assessment, leadership alignment and communication through technological transition.
Work design & skills
How roles, teams and capabilities are reshaped when AI takes on part of the work, and how to prepare people for it.
Government & policy
Helping public institutions adopt AI responsibly and engage the people their decisions affect.
Serious questions, asked in public.
Long-form conversations with leaders in technology, psychology, academia and government about how AI is changing work, institutions and everyday life.
Have something the public should hear?
The Brianna Harter Show
A program about the psychology of artificial intelligence: how people come to trust it, resist it, depend on it and govern it.
AI is moving faster than public understanding.
Decisions about how AI is used at work, in government and in public life are being made now, often without the people they affect in the room.
The Brianna Harter Show exists to change that. Each episode brings together researchers, executives, public officials and practitioners to examine one question in depth, from the psychology of self-driving vehicles to bias in hiring algorithms to what happens to a team when part of its work is automated.
The conversations are rigorous and accessible. The goal is an audience that understands these issues well enough to take part in them.
Build awareness. Then build participation.
Understand the change
Make the research on AI, work and behavior clear enough that anyone can follow it and form an informed view.
Engage the people affected
Encourage citizens to work with their local, state and federal governments as AI policy is written, and give officials a forum to listen.
Adopt AI responsibly
Show organizations what the evidence says about adopting AI in ways their workforce can trust and sustain.
Brianna Harter, hostHow an episode works
Extended conversations that give each subject the time it needs, published in full on YouTube.
Focused excerpts for Instagram and TikTok, made to reach people who would never watch a full episode.
Leaders in technology, psychology, academia, government and industry, in studio or remote.
Recurring subjects
Trust in automation
Why people over-rely on some systems and refuse others, from self-driving vehicles to clinical decision tools.
Algorithmic bias
How bias enters AI used in hiring, lending and public services, and what accountability looks like.
The future of work
Job redesign, reskilling, and what changes for managers and teams when AI joins the workflow.
AI in government
How public institutions procure, deploy and oversee AI, and how citizens can take part.
Leading through change
What leaders get right and wrong when they ask an organization to change how it works.
Mind and machine
The cognitive and emotional effects of living alongside intelligent systems, at work and at home.
Join the conversation.
We welcome guests whose work shapes how people and organizations live with artificial intelligence. Tell us who you are and what you want to discuss.
A good fit for the show
Guests we invite
- Researchers in psychology, human factors, computer science and related fields
- Executives responsible for AI adoption in their organizations
- Elected officials and public servants working on technology policy
- Practitioners in HR, workforce development and change management
- Founders building AI products people use every day
What makes a strong pitch
- A specific question or argument, not a general overview
- Evidence, data or direct experience behind your view
- Relevance to the public, governments or industry
- Willingness to engage with hard questions
- Links to prior talks, interviews or published work
After you apply
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Pre-interview
Selected guests have a short call with our team to shape the conversation.
Recording
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