I'm a career coach who helps job seekers ace interviews. If you don't mention AI, you're making a huge mistake. (www.businessinsider.com)

Career coach Gabriela Flax argues job-seekers who avoid discussing AI in interviews are missing a major opportunity. She recommends framing your AI use in three practical ways: amplify (use models like ChatGPT or Claude to supercharge strengths — e.g., upload your writing to teach a chatbot your voice for idea generation, while still editing to avoid hallucinations), automate (track repetitive tasks for a week and show how you offload scheduling, drafting, data crunching, or reporting to free time for strategic work), and architect (build lightweight AI systems — “vibe coding” via voice agents or custom ChatGPT agents linked to Google Drive/Notion — to automate unique workflows such as daily campaign summaries and team digests). The significance for AI/ML practitioners and job applicants is both tactical and cultural: candidates who can describe concrete AI tools, integrations and system-level solutions demonstrate up-to-date technical literacy, efficiency gains, and the ability to scale team capability — even without coding. Flax stresses interviews should be treated as brainstorming sessions: present company-specific AI ideas, show how you’d train colleagues, cite how you stay current, and acknowledge risks like hallucination and the need for fact-checking. Doing so distinguishes proactive, system-minded candidates from those who simply recite their résumé.