Job applicants are using deepfake AI to trick recruiters. Here’s how hiring managers can spot the next impostor

Vijay Balasubramaniyan knew there was a problem. 

The CEO of Pindrop, a 300-person information security company, says his hiring team came to him with a strange dilemma: They were hearing weird noises and tonal abnormalities while conducting remote interviews with job candidates. 

Balasubramaniyan immediately thought the issue might be interviewees using deepfake AI technology to mask their true identities. But unlike most other companies, Pindrop was in a unique position as...