The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun — from arstechnica.com by Benj Edwards
As thousands of applications flood job posts, ‘hiring slop’ is kicking off an AI arms race.

Employers are drowning in AI-generated job applications, with LinkedIn now processing 11,000 submissions per minute—a 45 percent surge from last year, according to new data reported by The New York Times.

Due to AI, the traditional hiring process has become overwhelmed with automated noise. It’s the résumé equivalent of AI slop—call it “hiring slop,” perhaps—that currently haunts social media and the web with sensational pictures and misleading information. The flood of ChatGPT-crafted résumés and bot-submitted applications has created an arms race between job seekers and employers, with both sides deploying increasingly sophisticated AI tools in a bot-versus-bot standoff that is quickly spiraling out of control.

The Times illustrates the scale of the problem with the story of an HR consultant named Katie Tanner, who was so inundated with over 1,200 applications for a single remote role that she had to remove the post entirely and was still sorting through the applications three months later.

Job seekers are leaning into AI — and other happenings in the world of work — from LinkedIn News

Job growth is slowing — and for many professionals, that means longer job hunts and more competition. As a result, more job seekers are turning to AI to streamline their search and stand out.

From optimizing resumes to preparing for interviews, AI tools are becoming a key part of today’s job hunt. Recruiters say it’s getting harder to sift through application materials and identify what is AI-generated and decipher which applicants are actually qualified — but they also say they prefer candidates with AI skills.

The result? Job seekers are growing their familiarity with AI faster than their non-job-seeking counterparts and it’s shifting how they view the workplace. According to LinkedIn’s latest Workforce Confidence survey, over half of active job seekers (52%) believe AI will eventually take on some of the mundane, manual tasks that they’re currently focused on, compared to 46% of others not actively job seeking.

OpenAI warns models with higher bioweapons risk are imminent — from axios.com by Ina Fried

OpenAI cautioned Wednesday that upcoming models will head into a higher level of risk when it comes to the creation of biological weapons — especially by those who don’t really understand what they’re doing.

Why it matters: The company, and society at large, need to be prepared for a future where amateurs can more readily graduate from simple garage weapons to sophisticated agents.

Driving the news: OpenAI executives told Axios the company expects forthcoming models will reach a high level of risk under the company’s preparedness framework.

    • As a result, the company said in a blog post, it is stepping up the testing of such models, as well as including fresh precautions designed to keep them from aiding in the creation of biological weapons.
    • OpenAI didn’t put an exact timeframe on when the first model to hit that threshold will launch, but head of safety systems Johannes Heidecke told Axios “We are expecting some of the successors of our o3 (reasoning model) to hit that level.”

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