The rise of the ‘Meat Proxy’ - the floodgates open as Bill Gates chips in with another downbeat AI assessment
We opened the week with ChatGPT being used within job interviews alongside candidates; we end it with the coming of the 'Meat Proxy' - all told, quite a week for the future of work!
As noted on Monday, job seekers are coming to interviews with AI tech openly running to help people answer questions from their prospective employer. That was the bleak revelation from Ordnance Survey CEO Nick Bolton who said:
Some are coming in now with an LLM listening alongside them, and then prompting the candidate’s answers. Now, you can see why someone might do it, but it doesn't help. It doesn't help you get a better idea of the individual.
As noted, this validates findings from a 2025 academic study, Your Brain on ChatGPT. It found that when students solely use AI to produce coursework, it creates a profound cognitive debt and dependency – i.e. they...
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