This special issue advances scholarship on artificial intelligence's role in learning and development. It publishes conceptual, theoretical, and empirical studies examining how AI transforms formal and informal learning, workforce development, and organizational learning, contributing to human resource development theory and practice.
The issue reconceptualizes AI beyond a technological tool to address how it reshapes the purposes, processes, outcomes, and values of workplace learning. It encourages theory-building, critical examinations, cross-cultural insights, and rigorous methodologies, combining peer-reviewed scholarly papers with selected practice-oriented perspective papers reflecting current organizational AI applications.