What it's like to have an AI bot as your job interviewer

"The creators of these AI tools say the benefit is that it allows companies to hear from virtually everyone who applies for a certain role instead of just a small subset, at least when it comes to an intro interview. Some claim that these tools operate with significantly less bias and prejudice because they're simply analyzing your responses rather than other video cues."

"But as we've covered again and again, a bias-free AI system is an impossible-to-achieve standard, since models are trained on large swaths of the internet, which contain sexism, racism, and other biases."

AI avatars are increasingly conducting initial job interviews through one-on-one video calls, analyzing candidate responses and asking questions. Companies including CodeSignal, Humanly, and Eightfold promote these tools as solutions for evaluating all applicants rather than small subsets, and claim they operate with less bias by focusing on responses rather than visual cues. However, AI systems cannot achieve true bias-free operation since they are trained on internet data containing inherent sexism, racism, and other prejudices. Testing three different AI interviewer platforms for various positions revealed significant differences in naturalness and user experience, with all interactions feeling inferior to human interviews.

Read at The Verge