What does this mean for the world of recruitment and job hunting? There's a tendency to think this is all pie-in-the-sky stuff… Imagining a future where a machine decides which job you're best suited for is frankly frightening. Television shows like Futurama have done their job of reminding us why a future dictated by machine logic is probably best avoided. We understandably become uneasy with this idea because a machine does not think like a human. But what if a machine could think like a human – a more considerate version of Futurama's Bender – what then?

Imagining a future where a machine decides which job you're best suited for is frankly frightening. Television shows like Futurama have done their job of reminding us why a future dictated by machine logic is probably best avoided. We understandably become uneasy with this idea because a machine does not think like a human. But what if a machine could think like a human - a more considerate version of Futurama's Bender - what then? Machines with cognitive intelligence are no longer the realm of science fiction.