Suddenly, AI (which we refer to as “job replacement technology”) has taken over corporate HR departments, performing tasks such as résumé screening, analysis, and now even interviews!
On an increasing basis, job candidates report encounters with creepy cordial AI robots (or, as the resistance is now calling them, “clankers“) during phone interviews. In many cases, the employer doesn’t even tell the candidate they will be “meeting” with a robot.
For their part, recruiters claim AI helps them to do their job more efficiently and is better at finding great candidates. In full disclosure, I never thought I’d see a day when people were going around boasting about how robots can do their jobs better than they can, but here we are. Then again, human resources people aren’t exactly the sharpest pencils in the box, to use an outdated cliché. Wait, what is a pencil?
Not that many people will have to worry about this. Most people can’t even get an interview. I talk to young people on Reddit all the time who have applied for 300, 400, 600 jobs and not received a single interview yet. Companies are so cold they don’t even send a canned “thank you for applying” email anymore. Yet we are supposed to believe these same companies love us and will “trickle down“ all the extra profit they are pocketing from massive Trump tax breaks? Sure thing.
Here’s the flipside. Well, there is no flipside. Other than being an interesting reference tool, AI sucks and is sucking the life and money out of the working classes; and not only is the government not doing anything to stop it, it is actually helping them. Can’t say this was on my bingo card. You?

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