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Researchers Design Bot To Conduct National Security Clearance Interviews

Posted by Unknown on from the why-do-you-say-you-are-not-a-threat-to-national-security? dept.

meghan elizabeth (3689911) writes Advancing a career in the U.S. government might soon require an interview with a computer-generated head who wants to know about that time you took ketamine. A recent study by psychologists at the National Center for Credibility Assessment, published in the journal Computers and Human Behavior, asserts that not only would a computer-generated interviewer be less "time consuming, labor intensive, and costly to the Federal Government," people are actually more likely to admit things to the bot. Eliza finds a new job.

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  1. Hello Dave by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's good, now tell me about your mother Dave...

    1. Re:Hello Dave by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dave? Dave's not here, man.

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  2. Re:Liar Paradox by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not if it has paradox-absorbing crumple zones.

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  3. Re:So there's this tortoise by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Leon should have kept his cool, like Rachael did later, as it turns out the Voight-Kampff test is checking whether someone is a Lesbian, not a Replicant.

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  4. Hello Leon by Ambitwistor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let me tell you about my mother. [blam!]