AI and job displacement: should we be fanning the flames of fear?

‘Beating the AI bot’ is a phrase we hear often when working with clients and their families, because it often feels as though the AI used by employers to screen applicants is out to get us, and that recruitment has become a cyber battlefield where the human David must slay the AI Goliath to have a chance of sitting across the table from a real live human being in an interview. Our view is that, just as with David’s innocuous-looking sling, a candidate’s most powerful weapon is something they happen to be carrying with them already. It is their human skills.