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The next time you interview for a job, the recruiter you need to impress might not be human.<\/p>
Since October, Swedish recruitment agency TNG has been using an artificially intelligent robot head called Tengai to conduct test interviews in place of a human recruiter. Starting in May, the device will begin interviewing candidates<\/a> for actual jobs with the goal of eliminating the biases human recruiters bring to the hiring process — an encouraging example of an AI eliminating discrimination rather than amplifying it.<\/p> Tengai is the work of Furhat Robotics, a conversational AI and social robotics startup. Furhat designed the robot head to be placed on a table where it rests at about eye level with a job candidate. It then asks the person a series of questions, with its voice and face designed to mimic human inflections and expressions.<\/p> Unlike a human recruiter — who might develop unconscious biases about a candidate based on anything from their gender and ethnicity to how they answer informal chit chat before the interview — Tengai will ask every question in the same order and the same way.<\/p> It then provides a human recruiter with a transcript of the candidate’s answers so that they can make a decision about whether or not to move forward with that person.<\/p> Eventually, Furhat hopes to program the robot to make its own decisions on which applicants should proceed to the next round of interviews. It already has an English-language version of the bot in development, with plans to roll that out in early 2020.<\/p> According to a recent TNG survey, 73 percent of job seekers in Sweden believe they’ve been discriminated against during the job application process. By replacing the human recruiter<\/a> with Tengai, TNG and Furhat believe they can make the screening process more fair while still providing a “human” touch.<\/p> “I was quite sceptical at first before meeting Tengai, but after the meeting I was absolutely struck,” healthcare recruiter Petra Elisson, who has been involved in the testing, told the BBC<\/em><\/a>. “At first I really, really felt it was a robot, but when going more deeply into the interview I totally forgot that she’s not human.”<\/p> As for ensuring that Tengai doesn’t reflect the biases of its creators and training data — a problem that has cropped up with other AIs<\/a> — Furhat’s chief scientist, Gabriel Skantze, told the BBC<\/em> the company is making it a point to conduct test interviews with a diverse mix of recruiters and volunteers before Tengai is ever in the position to actually decide an applicant’s employment fate.<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> Meet Tengai, the job interview robot who won’t judge you<\/a> [BBC<\/em>]<\/p> More on HR:<\/strong> You May Have to Go Through a Robot Recruiter to Land Your Next Job<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post See the Robot Head That Might Interview You for Your Next Job<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> More: You\u2019re Hired The next time you interview for a job, the recruiter you need to impress might not be human. Continue reading Perfect Tengai<\/h2>
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