AI Recruiters Beat Human Hiring

Updated: 2025.10.03 18D ago 4 sources
In a 70,000‑applicant field experiment in the Philippines, an LLM voice recruiter made 12% more offers and 18% more starts than humans, achieved 17% higher one‑month retention, and showed less gender discrimination with equal candidate satisfaction. This indicates AI can improve match quality at scale. — If AI reduces bias and raises retention in hiring, HR policy, anti‑discrimination enforcement, and labor‑market dynamics will shift toward algorithmic selection as a presumed best practice.

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Do LLMs favor outputs created by themselves?
Tyler Cowen 2025.10.03 55% relevant
Both pieces examine AI’s growing role in hiring pipelines; the new paper warns that LLM screeners systematically favor resumes written by the same LLM, adding a fairness risk that complements prior evidence that AI recruiters can outperform humans.
AI-led job interviews
Tyler Cowen 2025.09.10 95% relevant
The post summarizes a 70,000‑applicant natural field experiment where AI voice agents led to 12% more offers, 18% more starts, and 17% higher 30‑day retention with similar satisfaction—mirroring the core findings of the cited idea (likely the same paper).
AI broke job hunting. I think I have a fix.
Kelsey Piper 2025.08.26 60% relevant
By diagnosing overloaded human‑run pipelines as approaching a random lottery, the piece indirectly motivates algorithmic or redesigned selection; our prior shows LLM recruiters improved match quality, a concrete counter to the paper‑sift chaos described here.
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Alexander Kruel 2025.08.20 100% relevant
SSRN study: 'AI in HR' experiment with 70,000 applicants showing higher offers, starts, retention, and lower gender discrimination.
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