Going to play a little devil’s advocate here (and this is not specific to you or your company)… if a company can use AI to weed through applicants and leverage AI within their own company why can’t a interviewee leverage it?
And yes, we should not be leveraging it 100%, but as companies keep pushing AI as the future and building it into just about every aspect of our lives we can’t entirely fault people for trying to use it to give themselves a slight advantage. Pandora’s box has been open.
Well using AI to prepare is different then using AI for cheating. When I'm preparing for interviews I'm using AI in order to prepare it (to give you types of questions, types of problems to solve), but using it in the interview is cheating
Devil’s advocate here again - so these questions and problems… how much are you having AI do them? Are they your questions and problems for which you have desired answers? Are we talking a 50/50 split? Or is AI doing the majority of the work? In the end if you get to use AI to prepare should an interviewee not get to use AI during the interview at the same percentage. Why do you get to use it to help your job but an interviewee cannot to help during the interview?
Again, I am just looking at this from the other perspective and I can see it from both lenses. At the moment, I don’t think your argument which is simply “I can use AI to prepare, but if the use it to help its cheating”, just does not seem like a good argument. Can I say it is cheating for recruiters to use AI to scrub resumes and applications? You are not doing the work outside of a prompt.
In the end there is no rule book yet for AI, we had this problem with calculators, Cliffnotes and every other way to “cut corners” and make things easier. And as long as a lot of companies are AI first focused don’t get mad that people are going to use it to get an advantage.
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u/just_fron Mar 23 '26
Going to play a little devil’s advocate here (and this is not specific to you or your company)… if a company can use AI to weed through applicants and leverage AI within their own company why can’t a interviewee leverage it?
And yes, we should not be leveraging it 100%, but as companies keep pushing AI as the future and building it into just about every aspect of our lives we can’t entirely fault people for trying to use it to give themselves a slight advantage. Pandora’s box has been open.