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I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job Comments Drawer Comments Loading comments Getting the conversation ready... * Featured Videos Featured Videos Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All Featured Videos * AI AI Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All AI * Verge Video Verge Video Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All Verge Video I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job I couldn't get past the uncanny valley of looking at an AI avatar listening to my answers. I couldn't get past the uncanny valley of looking at an AI avatar listening to my answers. by Hayden Field Hayden Field Hayden Field Senior AI Reporter Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All by Hayden Field Mar 11, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC * * * Hayden Field Hayden Field Hayden Field Hayden Field Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All by Hayden Field is The Verge's senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Millions of people are on the job hunt right now -- and for many people, landing a job in the AI era feels more intimidating than ever. That's why the onset of AI avatars running your job interview via one-on-one video call, asking you questions, and analyzing how well you respond has generated a lot of discussion -- and controversy. There are a handful of companies behind the rise in AI-led interviews, like CodeSignal, Humanly, Eightfold, and more. The creators of these AI tools say the benefit is that it allows companies to hear from virtually everyone who applies for a certain role instead of just a small subset, at least when it comes to an intro interview. Some claim that these tools operate with significantly less bias and prejudice because they're simply analyzing your responses rather than other video cues. But as we've covered again and again, a bias-free AI system is an impossible-to-achieve standard, since models are trained on large swaths of the internet, which contain sexism, racism, and other biases. For this video, I tried out three AI interviewers myself for a range of jobs, either ones created for the exercise based on my current position or real jobs currently listed at Vox Media. Some of the platforms felt a lot more natural than others, but no matter what, each time I wished I was talking to a human instead. Watch the video to check out my experience. 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