AI job interviews: What we have to "look forward" to
Don't quit your current job! Bloomberg Law had a good article yesterday by Jo Constantz about AI-conducted job interviews. (Paid subscription may be required to access.) According to the article, many companies are now using AI interviews for the first round in the hiring process, which probably makes sense especially when there are a lot of applicants, and then going back to old-fashioned human interviews of the applicants who survive round one. The article piqued my curiosity, so I went to some AI-interview websites and saw some actual and demo interviews on YouTube and TikTok . A couple are here (real) and here (demo). "HIIII! I'M ASHLEY, YOUR VIRTUAL INTERVIEWER. IS NOW A GOOD TIME FOR YOU?" Yuck. Chat bots with vocal fry, long pauses after the live human answers the questions, no genuine reactions to what the live human actually says. And check out this one (real), where the AI bot glitched and j...