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Calkins warns that using AI risks reducing the hiring process to merely checking boxes.

Companies like Google and Salesforce use AI at various points in the hiring process.

An estimated 99% of Fortune 500 companies use automation in some part of their hiring process. Now, a CEO is challenging using AI to review resumes, arguing that the practice could cause companies to miss out on exceptional candidates.

Matt Calkins, CEO of enterprise software company Appian, refuses to use AI to screen resumes, according to a Tuesday report from Business Insider . He said that AI can’t fairly judge applicants.

“We were supposed to be better than that,” Calkins told BI during a recent press dinner. “We were supposed to spot the magic in people when we read their resumes, and it did

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