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.”
Classic example of a buyer’s market.
Knew a guy who worked for Goldman Sachs in London pre-2008. One of their interview tests was to ask the candidate to stand on a chair with one leg in the air, and hold the pose. Will doing this absurdity get you the job? Choose wisely…
When you have people lining up down the street for one job, you can make people bark like a dog or cluck like a chicken, knowing they’ll never know if agreeing to debase themselves is a pass or fail.
The interviewer probably doesn’t even know until they spin the (mental) wheel. The humiliation/inconsequentiality is the point.