FaceDeer

Yes, and? The American unemployment rate is currently 4.2%. You're imagining a scenario that's simply not backed up by real evidence, just a single anecdote with wild extrapolation. Okay, there were a lot of applicants for that one particular job. Must have been a really nice one. Most of the applicants didn't get in.

• How would AI screening change this?
• Did those failed applicants just give up and never apply for another job again afterward? You're apparently one of them, are you now unemployed forever?

Firstly, 700 is nowhere near "tens of thousands." Secondly, did those 700 applicants die in the streets or in prison? Or did they just go apply for some other job? People generally apply for a lot more jobs than they end up getting. And how is AI screening going to change the outcome? Would those 700 applicants get jobs there if they hadn't been using AI?

Also, note that America is not the whole world. Most civilized western nations have outlawed slavery, so their prisons aren't forced labor camps. And the jobless are not automatically imprisoned.

Really, this whole thread is just weird. I pointed out that voluntarily avoiding applying for jobs just means other people will take them, and we leapt instantly to some kind of cartoonish dystopia full of slavery and death.

If we're at "tens of thousands of applicants per job" and "forced labor camps" we're well beyond any remotely relevant scenario to what this article is about. Sure, hyperbole is a routine part of Internet arguments, but this feels like "I'm not fond of coffee" "Oh, so you want to kill everyone who has a caffeine addiction?" Sort of overreaction.

All I'm saying is that AI will likely be used as part of the hiring process in the future and people who absolutely refuse to engage with it will be taking themselves out of a significant portion of the job market.

But then the 1% would hoard all the food and cheer and song, leaving none for the rest of us.

AI is literally being used right now, it's what this thread is about.

And the personal attack is bizarre. As I said, I'm not the one deciding whether AI works or not. I'm not deciding whether it's being used. I have nothing to do with it and it has nothing to do with me.

Would you rather I not enjoy it?

Honestly, I don't know what your point is. I'm not the one deciding whether AI works or not. The world is changing and we can either find some way to adapt to these changes or we can... what, yell at clouds about it?

If every job can be replaced by AI then we're beyond the subject of this thread at that point. Won't need recruitment at all when that's the case.

Lots of people in this thread basically saying "I will voluntarily yield those job opportunities to people willing to use new technology."

Thanks, I guess?

How a plane works.

I was cutting a cardboard box up with a box cutter, holding the box steady with my off hand while pushing the blade downward through the cardboard. I realized that my hand was below the blade and therefore there was a risk I'd cut myself if the blade suddenly moved more quickly through the cardboard than anticipated. Safety first! So I stopped cutting, leaving the blade in the cardboard, and lifted my hand to grip the cardboard above where I was cutting instead.

Slammed my thumb right into the blade as I moved my hand, peeling a nasty slice of skin off. Took a lot of stitches to tack it back in place, still have a scar from that.

He's too big a chicken for that.

I just wont do you the favor to post any of them

Why comment in the first place if you're unwilling to back it up?

This is a public forum, you're not just answering me here.