Responsible AI
AI is good at asking the same questions carefully and writing down what it heard. It shouldn’t decide who gets a job. Here is how LessRounds keeps people in charge, and where the AI falls short.
Seven commitments
LessRounds sorts candidates by score. If you set a minimum score (a pass mark), it sets aside those below it. It never tells a candidate they were rejected, and anyone set aside can be moved back in one click. Someone on your team decides who moves on to the next interview.
A score with no reason is hard to trust. Each skill score comes with the reason for it and the quote from the interview it’s based on. A reviewer can check it in seconds and overrule it if it’s wrong.
Scoring reads the transcript. It does not analyze faces, expressions, clothing, rooms, voices or emotions. Video is recorded so your team can watch it. The AI does not judge it.
The scoring instructions tell the model never to mark anyone down for which language they use, for mixing languages, for the alphabet (script) their words are written in, or for grammar. If communication in English matters for the job, add it as a skill so it’s scored openly.
Before starting, every candidate is told the interview is run by AI, that it’s recorded and evaluated, and that it happens in one sitting. They agree before it begins.
Each candidate’s interview is locked when they start. If you edit the interview later, the change never reaches someone halfway through. Scripted mode goes further: the AI asks every candidate the same questions, word for word.
We don’t use interviews to train AI models, and our AI provider doesn’t train on data sent through its API.
Automatic set-aside
We don’t want this to be a surprise, so here are the rules as the software applies them.
No AI system is, and neither is a phone interview. What we can do is score only the words of each answer, tell the AI not to mark people down for language or grammar, show the evidence for every score, and keep a person in charge of every decision. We’d rather describe those controls than claim a guarantee nobody can give.
Turning speech into text (transcription). Background noise, a weak microphone or an unreliable internet connection can cause missed words, and a missing word can lower a score. That’s why each score shows its quote. If a quote looks jumbled, watch the recording.
At first, yes. Look through a sample of set-aside candidates for your first interviews. If good people are landing there, lower the pass mark or adjust the skills.
In some places. New York City, Illinois and the European Union all have rules on AI in hiring. They generally require telling candidates AI is used and what it evaluates, and some also require consent, bias audits (independent checks for unfair results) or the right to have data deleted. LessRounds tells candidates and asks for consent before every interview, but you’re responsible for meeting the rules where you hire. This isn’t legal advice.
Yes. They can ask you, as the employer, or email privacy@lessrounds.ai. See the candidate privacy notice.
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