Stephen Mihm, Columnist

AI Is Hastening the Résumé’s Demise. Good Riddance

March 21, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC

Stephen Mihm, a professor of history at the University of Georgia, is coauthor of “Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance.”

Let’s start with the idea of a résumé in the first place. — Let’s start with the idea of a résumé in the first place.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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Artificial intelligence isn’t just being blamed for killing jobs; it’s exposing the fundamental flaw in one of hiring’s oldest tools: the résumé.

Thanks to AI, any applicant can churn out a polished, professional-looking version with a few basic prompts — regardless of their qualifications. Frustrated companies have responded in kind by deploying the technology to sort the submissions.