fromSlate Magazine
6 days agoI Got Laid Off. A.I. Wrote My New Cover Letter. It Was Surprisingly Good-Except for One Alarming Mistake.
I got laid off five months ago. Every morning I drink a pot of coffee while I write cover letters, tweak my résumé, and submit job applications into the abyss, knowing they will likely never be seen by human eyes-only crawled by the cold, lifeless algorithms of an artificial intelligence. I feel like General Zod from Superman, floating off into space trapped inside a two-dimensional phantom zone, screaming in silence about my job qualifications and core competencies.
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