Robot hires human being in world first as AI conducts job interview
Robot hires human being in world first as
AI conducts job interview
Tengai is said
to be "bias free" and will only hire the best person for the job
regardless of ethnicity, age or gender
A robot has
hired a human being for the first time in history as an AI was left to do job
interviews.
Robotic head Tengai has been
commissioned to carry out recruitment in the Upplands Bro Municipality, Sweden.
Tengai resembles a head on a stick, with
a friendly looking face beamed onto a screen which wraps around his plastic
skull.
The robot was developed by recruitment
company TNG together with the tech firm Furhat Robotics.
He is reported to have hired a man
called Anders Ornhed, from Jarfalla.
Anders has the honour of becoming the first person ever to hired
by an AI.
Swedish radio reported Anders got
through the interview process with Tengai.
He was given the job as digital
coordinator at the municipality office.
Tengai is boasted to be “bias
free”.
The robot is not affected by the
jobseeker’s age, gender or ethnicity – he just wants the best person for the
job.
Anders
said: “It's very different from being interviewed by a human being.
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