A business consultant is raising alarms about AI-conducted job interviews after he says a tech company’s evaluation of him drew some concerning conclusions, including criticizing his “habitual” use of Google’s Chrome internet browser.
As some companies outsource job interviews to artificial intelligence, rejected candidates can be left wondering what went wrong.
After not hearing back about a job he applied for in Madrid with marketing company Anteriad, Daniel Alvarez, who is based in Spain, decided to find out exactly how the AI judged him.
He obtained a copy of the AI-generated evaluation from Anteriad under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. The company had used a third-party firm called ChattyHiring to conduct the screening interview.
Alvarez, who is not Canadian but lived in Toronto for much of last year, shared the full evaluation and transcript with CBC News. He said he was not impressed by what he found, and doesn’t feel companies should use AI interviews in the hiring process.
“It’s not a human-to-human interaction when you have, for example, language repair… I can say something, and depending on your face, I can immediately rephrase it," he said.
“That’s gone in this kind of interaction.”
I hate chrome and refuse to use it as a browser, but I won’t deny their dev tools are pretty good. I can get the job done in Safari and Firefox, but chrome set the standard that they are aspiring to (and maybe have caught, idk, I refuse to use it). I wouldn’t dock anyone interview points for using it — as long as their attitude toward other browsers isn’t “fuck people who use those, they are 6% of the market” (or whatever the right number is, I made that shit up).