Rise of the Machines: 3 Reasons Why AI is the Future of Recruiting

When I studied Artificial Intelligence in the 90s, its manifestation in real life was confined to clunky machines playing chess and robots slowly navigating their way around a maze. Ideas such as singularity – where machines become capable of recurring self-improvement, their intelligence surpassing our own intelligence and all current human control or understanding – was just a concept, reality felt like several generations into the future, if at all. But the speed of AI progress has accelerated – my thesis in 1994 studied human-machine interaction via linguistics and speech recognition – this is now a standard and widely-available AI application in modern day life. My current professional interest in technology focuses on recruitment, an industry where we imagine it is very difficult to replace humans with machines due to the social and emotional interaction that is necessary at multiple levels. However AI is already shaping the way recruitment takes place, because it is starting to know more about candidates, the companies they are joining, and the work they need to do, making the use of data matching much more powerful and usefully practical than ever before.