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🗓️ 21 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time. |
| 0:02.8 | We'll be on it all the time. |
| 0:04.1 | He could walk to school by himself. She could see something, she shouldn't. He could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls. They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet. So, should I give my kid a phone? Growing up with phones isn't always easy. Introducing EEE safer Sims. Sims that help moderate usage and shield harmful content on any smartphone. |
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| 0:26.9 | network. To verify best network see EE.com.ukuk slash claims. Abby's just woken up. It's 731 and |
| 0:33.4 | she's forgotten to ring the doctor. There's no point ringing now. She needs to get to work. |
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| 1:13.1 | When Danielle Abrill applied for a sales job with a jewellery company, the email she got in reply came not from a human, but from a virtual recruiter. And they say, you know, I'd like to call you tomorrow at 3 p.m. or whatever to set up |
| 1:21.1 | a screening interview with you. Danielle is actually a reporter for the Washington Post who covers |
| 1:26.6 | the labor market. |
| 1:33.3 | But with the jewelry company's blessing, she wanted to go through a process that more and more workers are experiencing, interviewing for a job with an AI recruiter. |
| 1:40.8 | It sounded somewhat like a human. It was not like a robotic voice. In that sense, it sounded like a human. But in another sense, it also sounded like a spam call. Like if I didn't know any better, if I hadn't seen that email or text, I would have been like, oh, this is some sales thing that I need to hang up on. You got to. I'm sorry to make you do this, but come on, you got to |
| 2:02.4 | like do the voice. Oh, yes. It was like, hello, I'm virtual recruiter Danielle, and I'm here to talk |
| 2:08.5 | about the job you recently applied for. And so what we found from job seekers who were getting |
| 2:13.7 | these calls was exactly that experience where some people were like, is this a scam? Is this real? Is this virtual recruiter thing real? Are they just trying to get |
| 2:20.7 | information from me? Because obviously a lot of us, myself included, are getting those weird |
| 2:27.0 | scam job offer texts. But the process Danielle went through is real. It was just a little bit |
| 2:34.0 | awkward in the sense that |
| 2:35.6 | it would ask me a question like, what are your latest successes or tell me what experience you |
| 2:40.4 | have that relates to this? And I would answer the question. And if I paused too long, |
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