It's funny how employers try to rationalize this -- take Coinbase, for example: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/how-coinbase-is-embracing-ai-i...

> While some worry AI will dehumanize the hiring process, we believe the opposite. Deploying AI will enable more quality interactions, more quickly for the candidates who are the best fit for our jobs– without unnecessary administrative tasks or distractions. We fully believe in AI’s ability to build depth and breadth in our selection process, while acknowledging that the road ahead will have its challenges. Let’s face it: the candidates who want to work at Coinbase are as enthusiastic about AI as we are. They, like us, are optimistic about the future of this (and all) technology.

"While some worry AI will dehumanize the hiring process, we believe the opposite."

"AI will create jobs instead of destroying them."

"AI will solve the climate crisis despite doubling or tripling humanity's energy footprint."

At some point it became acceptable to lie to the public with a straight face.

> Let’s face it: the candidates who want to work at Coinbase are as enthusiastic about AI as we are. They, like us, are optimistic about the future of this (and all) technology.

Yet Anthropic didn't want people to use AI as part of interviewing for them.

Are these interviews over video? If so, I guarantee we’ll see reports of AI rating nonwhite candidates lower, and nobody will do anything about it because nobody will care.

Coinbase is a biz built by people willing to sell shovels to the cryptocurrency speculators. They've already filtered themselves as folks with questionable morals. They're like a cigarette manufaturer.

This is prime HR style lying. The response is: Problem statement. Claim that reality is the opposite of the problem statement, with no justification given, despite obvious evidence to the contrary. Statement that if reality doesn't match their claim, the worker is at fault. End of statement.

Dystopian, infuriating, unethical and immoral.

>Let’s face it: the candidates who want to work at Coinbase are as enthusiastic about AI as we are.

Perhaps. But their enthusiasm is not to talk to themselves alone int a room to a chatbot, but to work on solving interesting problems. Hopefully alongside other enthusiastic people.

I'm not surprised. I have colleagues who worked there and they have a very toxic work culture.

"Let's face it: the only people that should pass this interview are those that build an AI response bot to pass the test for them. Then we can both get to talking human-to-human."

I mean if these words are true, then all their candidates will work hard to game the system with their own AI-abusing AIs of their own. So hopefully they will be inundated with a thousand applicants and only one or two respond at all and say "now you have to beat my other 100 offers, begin"

Well, Coinbase is crypto, right? THey've already made a horrible ehtical decision by getting into that, so might as well double down and add in some biased AI. The candidates who want to work at Coinbase are as enthusiastic as any grift as they are.