Applying for a job with a fake smile

AUTHENTICITY // AUTOMATED HUMANS

Selecting the right candidate for a job is increasingly outsourced to computers. Algorithms evaluate video applications for word choice, voice and micro-expressions that would betray our “true” emotions. Together with designer Kiki Mager SETUP developed the application installation Input ≠ Output. Of course the system could not recognize my fake smile. In the future, will we adapt our words, voices and expressions to algorithmic standards?