Hilke Schellmann: Is Your New Boss a Robot?

What Now? with Trevor Noah

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

AI isn’t just coming for your job — it might already be your manager. Trevor and Eugene sit down with investigative journalist Hilke Schellmann to examine how artificial intelligence has quietly infiltrated the workplace. From hiring software that analyzes your facial expressions to productivity trackers that monitor everything from your writing style to your bathroom breaks, Schellmann explains what these systems actually do — and what they get wrong. Do they eliminate bias, automate it, or just hide it better? And what happens to human work when the algorithm is watching? You won’t want to miss this episode.

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0:00.0	What I have learned by like bringing AI into the talent acquisition hiring space, I learned like how bad our old processes are, like job interviews, actually really bad.
0:14.0	Because you are, it sort of filters out the people who are good about talking about doing the job.
0:19.9	As opposed to doing the job. So we have this like confidence versus confidence problem. Like people who are good about talking about doing the job. As opposed to doing the job.
0:21.0	So we have this like confidence versus confidence problem.
0:23.9	Like people who like come off as like confident,
0:26.1	we often think like, well, that person speaks so confidently about the,
0:29.2	they must be really good.
0:30.5	It turns out like that are more often than not men.
0:33.4	And that doesn't mean actually they're competence.
0:36.0	So we sometimes complain.
0:37.2	What us men?
0:37.8	No
0:38.4	Never
0:39.8	What
0:40.5	So you know
0:42.5	Little old us
0:44.6	Hilka
0:45.1	No
0:46.1	As always
0:48.9	Not all men
0:50.4	But a lot
0:51.4	As little old men
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