Sep 8, 2026 · 7 min · 9 segments
A nonprofit hired a grant writer who aced the interview, and couldn’t do the job. This episode digs into a hiring crisis moving faster than most nonprofit leaders realize: candidates using AI to…
I want to start with the scale of this because I don't think that most nonprofit leaders realize how fast that this has moved.
One analysis tracking over 50,000 candidates found the share flag for AI-assisted cheating more than doubled in six months.
Doubled from 15% in mid-2025 to 35% by the end of the year.
A separate study of nearly 20,000 live interviews found that 38.5% were flagged for suspected AI use, and that rate tripled in just three months.
Some projections now suggest that by 2028, as many as one in four candidate profiles globally could be partly or entirely fabricated.
That's candidates running live tools during video interviews, invisible overlays feeding them answers in real time.
In some documented cases, an entirely different person doing the technical round than the one who showed up to the first interview.
I want to start with the scale of this because I don't think that most nonprofit leaders realize how fast that this has moved.
One analysis tracking over 50,000 candidates found the share flag for AI-assisted cheating more than doubled in six months.
Doubled from 15% in mid-2025 to 35% by the end of the year.
A separate study of nearly 20,000 live interviews found that 38.5% were flagged for suspected AI use, and that rate tripled in just three months.
Some projections now suggest that by 2028, as many as one in four candidate profiles globally could be partly or entirely fabricated.
That's candidates running live tools during video interviews, invisible overlays feeding them answers in real time.
In some documented cases, an entirely different person doing the technical round than the one who showed up to the first interview.
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