aceDystopian and dehumanising: that’s what it felt like when I was interviewed by an AI assistant | Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
Over the past 15 years of my working life, I’ve done a lot of interviews for a lot of different jobs and industries: call centre operator, social media manager, bookseller, copywriter, library worker. Recently, after completing my first year of a master’s degree in early childhood and primary teaching, I applied for a preschool education role and experienced a first: being interviewed by AI. I’d heard of this practice and was aware of its shortcomings, from how demoralising it is to the risk of discrimination. Y…
An AI interviewer ended a candidate's interview when she paused to think, could not answer her questions about the role, and left her without any human contact, so she withdrew from the application.
The piece is a single first-person account, and she says she does not know whether the AI interview was only a first stage of the recruitment process.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-12
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