{
  "id": 17868,
  "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-avatars-job-interviews-candidates-recruiters",
  "title": "Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them.",
  "summary": "Job recruiters are meeting an uncanny new kind of candidate: the AI avatar. These digital humans mirror an applicant’s voice and likeness while being something else entirely, and they are turning up in first-round interviews. Lana Kersanava, a Sydney-based recruiter, told Semafor she has encountered them over the past six months. “At the beginning, it’s like […] This story continues at The Next Web",
  "authors": "Alina Maria Stan",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-08T12:04:26.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-10T05:10:00.488Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-next-web-ai",
  "source_name": "The Next Web AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://thenextweb.com/topic/artificial-intelligence",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17868",
  "original_url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-avatars-job-interviews-candidates-recruiters",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}