New Harvard Business Review article.
Rohan Paul Twitter · Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai) · 2026-06-08
A Harvard Business Review article argues AI has broken hiring at both ends by making it easy to fabricate resumes and script remote interview responses in real time, rewarding candidates who can game the process over those who can do the work.
Extraction
Topics: ai-hiringrecruitmentai-deceptionlabor-market
Claims
- AI tools have made it significantly easier to fake or inflate resumes.
- AI can be used to script live responses during remote interviews, enabling candidates to perform better than their actual capabilities.
- Modern hiring systems now select for people skilled at performing the hiring process, not necessarily at performing the job.
- AI is simultaneously disrupting hiring at both the application stage and the interview stage.
Key quotes
AI is now breaking hiring at both ends, with résumés becoming easier to fake and remote interviews becoming easier to script live.
Hiring systems now reward people who can perform the hiring process, not always people who can do the work.