When AI Stops Treating Us Like People: The Twin Crises Nobody Wants to Discuss

The moment it stops being theoretical A friend was telling me about their recent job interviews. Not the questions they struggled with or the technical challenge they bombed—that’s normal interview anxiety. No, they were frustrated because they’d spent forty-five minutes talking to an AI chatbot that analyzed their “enthusiasm for remote work” and tracked their eye movements while asking whether they’d “misrepresent themselves 3.8x more than average candidates.” The speed with which I would exit an AI interview would rival even the most seasoned teenager’s alt-tab skills.