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This is the indicator from Planet Money.

I'm Adrienne Ma.

And I'm Waylon Wong.

In the world of work, is there anything more stressful than a job interview?

You know, these high-stakes encounters that can determine the course of your financial future,

whether you land your dream job or have a job at all.

Now imagine how stressed you'd feel if they told you your job interview will be conducted by AI.

Like it or not, more companies are actually starting to do this.

And the results of a new study suggests that it might not all be bad news for workers.

So today on the show, we dig into that study.

And Adrian gets grilled by an AI job recruiter named Anna.

Will I get the job?

We will find out after that break.

PSG Global Solutions is a company that specializes in recruiting.

A company you might call if you need to hire a lot of, say, call center agents or warehouse workers or nurses, but don't have a lot of time.

David Koch works for PSG, where his title, it's a very fancy one, Chief of Transformation and Innovation.

Though, funnily enough, his metaphor for recruiting is a very analog piece of technology, a funnel.

And it's like a leaky funnel at that.

The funnel is essentially a number of candidates going in

and number of candidates actually being placed.

Right? And every step of the way, every step in the process,

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