Using AI to cheat in an interview? Don’t wear glasses

by · Australian Financial Review

Emma McGrath-CohenReporter
Aug 5, 2026 – 5.00am

If you’re planning to surreptitiously use an AI chatbot to help you sail through your next job interview, you might want to ditch the specs.

When an interviewer can see the reflection of your computer screen in the lenses, and clearly view an AI model generating answers to their questions, it’s a dead giveaway.

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Emma McGrath-CohenReporterEmma McGrath-Cohen is a journalist for The Australian Financial Review. Email Emma at emma.mcgrathcohen@afr.com.au

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