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ARTICLE · 14 SEPTEMBER 2018

AI And Recruitment

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"Now that the British AI industry has received £1 billion in government funding and the EU is aiming to increase investment in AI to EUR20 billion by the end of 2020 ...

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Elizabeth Fox
Elizabeth Fox

"Now that the British AI industry has received £1 billion in government funding and the EU is aiming to increase investment in AI to EUR20 billion by the end of 2020, we can be sure that AI will feature more and more in our everyday lives", Managing Associate Elizabeth Fox comments on the impact of AI in the recruitment industry in this month's Recruitment International.

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