71% of American employees oppose the use of AI in deciding who gets hired.

66% of the same demographic wouldn’t even apply to a job, when AI makes those decisions.

41% of people don’t even want AI making decisions on who gets interviewed.

At the same time, 83% of all employers, including 99% of Fortune 500 companies, are using Artificial Intelligence in their hiring process.

A river of suits coming down 7 escalators of Bankers Trust at 130 Liberty street on Friday at 5 pm was an almost scary view. The massive size of workforce alone was enough to shock, but if you think about the meaning behind it, it offers a very different lesson. Hundreds, and at times thousands of employees at large banks and brokerage firms, crammed inside a number of floors at generally aesthetically pleasant buildings was a sign of strength. Even after mergers and acquisitions made Citi the largest banking employer, the ‘too big to fail’ concept wasn’t going to motivate firms to get smaller. IBM’s training programs of the 1990s were legendary, as they built unusually effective teams. Bullpens were becoming more popular not just on trading floors, but also in almost any large sales environment. Human curiosity wasn’t only limited to travel to other countries to see other cultures. It also had an impact on how people in every metropolitan city interacted. A true American metropolis, like New York, would see people from Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa work in constant and direct proximity of each other, enriching their outlook on the way others lived and functioned.

Technology has long been a permanent staple of sorts in people’s lives. Entire generation has been born and matured, not remembering what it’s like not to have a computer at home. A new generation is growing up, not even understanding the need for computers, as they view handheld devices, like cell phones and tablets, more than sufficient to address the needs of life. No website nowadays is only viewable on a PC, and popular content management systems , like WordPress and Joomla automatically create the mobile version of every site.

It’s almost 2019 and technology is everywhere. Whether you want to get a taxi to go to an appointment, feeling hungry and want food delivered, or share your thoughts with others, chances are, there is an app in your phone for that. Even your dry cleaner pulls up your profile on his computer, once you walk in to drop off some shirts. So, it makes perfect sense that when hiring technical people, automating that process is the way to go. Or so it seems.