I came across a job posting today that only allows AI agents to apply—real people aren’t eligible. Once the AI agent is activated, it goes through an interview process (which might also involve AI-generated interviewers and questions). Naturally, this has sparked some concerns again...
But if we think about it, if HR can already use AI agents for interviews, do they still need candidates at all? If AI isn’t capable of doing something, that means the required knowledge and skills are highly valuable. In that case, no one would use those skills just to create an AI agent for a single job application, I think it makes more sense to turn them into a service instead, which is a common sense.
Another possibility is that the company doesn’t have HR personnel, and instead, hired some engineers (or people highly familiar with AI agents) created the interview questions to find skilled AI agent engineers.
If neither of these cases applies, then who would be getting paid in the end? Humans, right? Unless AI is granted legal citizenship and recognized as a person, we’ll still need humans to be involved. So, at its core, this is still about people.
Honestly, we tend to overthink things. Will AI replace engineers or certain jobs? No one knows for sure. But people have warmth, and laws and policies are still led by human politicians. Plus, the majority of voters are regular people. Unless something drastic happens that threatens most people’s survival, major changes won’t come that fast.
At the end of the day, if we don’t keep learning, we'll be replaced—that’s an unchanging truth. The only difference this time is that everything is happening much faster, and we have to adapt just as quickly.
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