USA, more and more companies use robots for job interviews: because "they eliminate prejudices"

A growing number of companies in America are using robots for job interviews.

According to reports from the Axios website, after 86% - since the beginning of Covid - have used virtual technologies for the hiring process, many US companies have gone further by resorting to artificial intelligence to examine candidates instead of work: judged by tone of voice, facial expressions and choice of words.

But in 2018, Amazon scrapped a similar program after developers realized the tool

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According to many employers, however, it is a method that eliminates prejudices and discrimination, while complaints have been received from candidates because it would be "

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"Many candidates behaved like robots"

According to new research published in the Harvard Business Review, since "many people looking for a job did not understand the technology used, they behaved rigidly while maintaining a fixed gaze, a fake smile or an unnatural posture, speaking in a monotone voice. , and holding their hands still. In short, they also behaved like robots. " 

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The risk that the robot "is prevented"

The research also argues that "artificial intelligence systems are vulnerable to bias because the data used for prediction models may be limited, or because they

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