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Fast Food Chains' AI Chatbots Failed to Assist Job Applicants with Scheduling Interviews
- Occurred
- Jan 5, 2023
- Published
- Jun 9, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
McDonald's, Wendy's, and Hardee's AI chatbots deployed to pre-screen job candidates and schedule interviews reportedly ran into issues such as not giving useful submission instructions, failing to relay information to the manager, and scheduling an interview when the manager was not available.
Developers
- Wendy's
- McDonald's
- Hardee's
Deployers
- Wendy's
- McDonald's
- Hardee's
Harmed parties
- fast food job applicants
- Amanda Claypool
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI chatbots failed to perform basic scheduling tasks, causing operational issues for job applicants.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8