I Got Laid Off. A.I. Wrote My New Cover Letter. It Was Surprisingly Good--Except for One Alarming Mistake.

After sending out more than 100 applications, I learned the robots are no longer satisfied with taking our jobs--they also want to prevent us from getting new ones. I got laid off five months ago. Every morning I drink a pot of coffee while I write cover letters, tweak my résumé, and submit job applications into the abyss, knowing they will likely never be seen by human eyes--only crawled by the cold, lifeless algorithms of an artificial intelligence. I feel like General Zod from, floating off into space trapped inside a two-dimensional phantom zone, screaming in silence about my job qualifications and core competencies. The job market is a mess.