Robots Could Be Conducting<br />Job Interviews by 2020 A 16-inch tall robot-recruiter<br />named Tengai could be the<br />future of job interviews. Tengai is programmed to conduct every interview the exact same way. She doesn’t engage in pre-interview chit-chat and<br />asks every question in the same tone and order. Tengai then sends a transcript to human employers<br />containing only the interviewee's answers,<br />eliminating any bias or inherited prejudices. The robot was created by Furhat,<br />an artificial intelligence and social<br />robotics company based in Sweden. They’ve spent the last four years creating a<br />human-like computer interface that mimics<br />human speech and facial expressions. Tengai is expected to be put<br />in real life situations as early<br />as May of 2019. She’s been undergoing trials since<br />October 2018, in partnership<br />with one of Sweden’s largest<br />recruitment firms, TNG. Real candidate interviews are expected to begin in May<br />2019, and an English version could exist as soon as 2020.
