Falling Asleep at the Wheel: Human / AI Collaboration in a Field Experiment of HR Recruiters

One of the concerns about the use of AI is that we humans are going to end up overweighting AI recommendations at an increasing rate, until we get to a point when we never veto the recommendation, so make ourselves fully redundant in the name of efficiency. This research paper shows the theory in action, as recruiters ‘fall asleep at the wheel’ when reviewing job applications first processed and scored by AI.