Professor Struggles to Screen Candidates as Applications Get AI-Generated
paulnovosad · x · 2026-08-10
Economics professor Paul Novosad shared an AI dilemma in hiring: receiving a job application with a 4.0 GPA, exceptional background, and a GitHub page, yet appearing to be 100% AI-generated. While he leans towards rejecting such applications outright, he admits that similar submissions will become increasingly common, making it genuinely difficult to read the true signal of a candidate's abilities.
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