Hiring is turning into machines distrusting machines
The problem is not that AI entered hiring. It is that hiring built a measurement layer nobody trusts. Applicants optimize for robots they may not understand. Employers sort robot-polished applications with more robots. The result is more effort, less confidence, and a market where good matches can vanish.
What the source reports
Jill Duffy reports that job seekers are using AI and resume-optimization tools because they believe applicant tracking systems, or ATS tools, rank them before a human looks. One applicant saw scores change for two-page length, a middle initial mismatch, and changing "percent" to "%." Jobscan-style services can cost $30 to $50 a month. Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait calls it an AI doom loop: each side uses AI to fix its own problem and makes the whole process worse. Doist tested filled roles against AI shortlists. In two cases, the person it hired, and liked six months later, was not shortlisted.
Original source
- Title
- AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop
- Author
- Jill Duffy
- Publication
- WIRED
- Date
- Friday, September 4, 2026