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Most AI failures in recruiting aren’t AI failures
Most of the writing on why AI underperforms in recruiting starts with a guess. Blame gets directed at the vendor, or the technology, or a market that moved too fast for anyone to keep up. These explanations are hard to disprove and easy to repeat, which is probably why they circulate so widely.
We went and looked at the data instead.
Our 2026 Talent Acquisition Trends Study surveyed nearly 1,000 TA leaders. For starters, we saw that 82% of employers experienced added friction as a result of deploying AI into their hiring
