Your next job interview could be with a robot

A growing number of companies are using chat bots and AI-led video interviews to assess job candidates before a human recruiter even meets them. Why it matters: Automated interviews vastly expand the job candidate pool and are designed to ensure consistent hiring practices by rooting out ways that bias seeps into interviews, recruiters say. But job applicants complain they're dehumanizing and stressful. The big picture: Recruiters have been using artificial intelligence for a while to automate candidate searches or screen resumes, for example. AI-led video interviews, however, go beyond those practices -- because candidates are assessed by a computer algorithm.