ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO CONDUCT JOB INTERVIEWS

Like it or not, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tsunami is only slightly off-shore and certain to roar through our lives shortly sweeping away so many of our traditions.  One of them is the job interview where we sit in front a three or so folks who pepper us with questions and try to peer into our souls, culminating in a score or ranking that all too often is as much a work of fiction as a Stephen King novel. Check out this recent Washington Post story about how AI will soon take over the job interviewing function. Those unions whose members place a lot of importance on getting promoted or otherwise selected for something had best start thinking about what protections and improvements they want to demand at the bargaining table. We can think of about a dozen, but near the top of the list would be a study that compares the results of the first 100 or so AI interviews to the 100 done just prior to AI’s arrival.