The civil service is being forced to return to face-to-face job assessments after mandarins discovered they had interviewed AI bots instead of human applicants.
Whitehall bosses are also planning to move away from the traditional personal statement after a surge in applications created by AI platforms such as ChatGPT reduced their value.
Job seekers are using AI to fire off hundreds of applications for different civil service roles with minimal effort – meaning genuine applicants can sometimes be lost in the quagmire.
In the most extreme cases, some applications – and even virtual interviews carried out over Zoom or Microsoft Teams – appear
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