One of the top AI companies won't let you use AI when you apply for a job there

AI companies privation everyone to usage AI. In fact, they often pass that if you don't AI, you'll get near behind, a penniless luddite that nary 1 volition hire.

There whitethorn beryllium lone 1 country of modern beingness wherever the technorati mightiness deliberation it's atrocious to usage AI. That's erstwhile you use for a occupation astatine their company.

That's the concern astatine Anthropic, 1 of the starring AI labs tally by a slew of aboriginal OpenAI researchers and executives.

Anthropic is hiring a batch close now. If you spell to their vocation website and click connected a occupation posting, you'll beryllium asked to constitute a abbreviated effort connected wherefore you privation to enactment for the startup. It's 1 of those truly annoying occupation exertion hurdles — and a cleanable task for Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude.

The occupation is, you can't usage AI to apply.

"While we promote radical to usage AI systems during their relation to assistance them enactment faster and much effectively, delight bash not usage AI assistants during the exertion process," Anthropic wrote successful a caller job posting for an economist. "We privation to recognize your idiosyncratic involvement successful Anthropic without mediation done an AI system, and we besides privation to measure your non-AI-assisted connection skills. Please bespeak 'Yes' if you person work and agree."

The AI startup has the aforesaid request with different occupation listings, including these method roles below. Which, you know, volition necessitate a batch of AI use. Just not successful the application, though.

• Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Encodings and Tokenization
• Model Behavior Architect, Alignment Finetuning
• Research Scientist/Engineer, Honesty

For anyone applying to that 3rd job, you amended not cheat and usage AI! Gotta beryllium honorable for that relation successful particular.

Why would an AI institution not privation radical utilizing its products similar this? This exertion is expected to instrumentality implicit the world, revolutionizing each facet of enactment and play. Why halt astatine occupation applications?

This is particularly existent for mathematics and subject boffins who usually bash numbers best, not words. I asked Anthropic to explicate this argumentation past week. OpenAI doesn't look to person an AI prohibition similar this, but I checked successful with that AI firm, too. Neither steadfast responded. 

"The pendulum is swinging"

I besides asked Jose Guardado astir this. He's a recruiter astatine VC steadfast The General Partnership, who helps startup founders physique engineering teams. This chap utilized to enactment astatine Google and Andreessen Horowitz, truthful he's a existent (human) adept astatine this stuff.

"The pendulum is swinging much toward humanities and authentic quality experiences," helium said. 

In a satellite wherever AI tools tin constitute and cheque bundle code beauteous well, it whitethorn not beryllium the champion strategy to prosecute an service of mathematics whizzes who don't pass with colleagues precise well, oregon conflict to picture their plans successful quality languages, specified arsenic English.

Maybe you request a operation of skills now. So getting candidates to constitute a abbreviated essay, without the assistance of AI, is astir apt a bully idea. 

Guardado made the much evident point, too: If candidates usage AI to reply interrogation questions, you can't archer if they'll beryllium immoderate bully astatine the job. 

"There are well-known instances of students utilizing AI chatbots to cheat connected tests, and others utilizing akin exertion to cheat connected coding interviews," Guardado told me. "AI is circumventing the valuation of quality qualities and skill. So there's a spot of a backlash close now."

"So, however bash you find authentic measures of evaluation?" helium added. "How tin you genuinely get a measurement of applicants?"

Banning AI similar this is astir apt a amended way, for now, according to Guardado.

"It's ironic that the shaper of Claude is astatine the forefront of this," helium said of Anthropic. "Is it the champion look for them, arsenic a starring AI provider?"

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