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title: "Hiring in the Era of AI: TA and Fraud Report | Fusemachines"
description: "Explore how talent acquisition teams are using AI and addressing candidate fraud. Download the Hiring in the Era of AI report for key TA insights and trends."
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last_updated: 2026-08-19
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Fusemachines | Talent Acquisition Research

# Hiring in the Era of AI

June 2026 Report

Only 13% of TA leaders have a formal fraud detection process in place.

The other 87% are working from instinct.

The Harvard Club, New York · June 30, 2026

Senior TA and HR leaders

Anonymous & aggregated

## Download Report

Detection maturity

## Where TA stands today

Most TA teams do not have a real detection process yet.

![Detection maturity](https://fusemachines.com/assets/images/report/hiring-in-era-of-ai/detection-maturity.avif)

Only 13% of TA leaders have a formal fraud detection process in place.

Pipeline encounters & ownership

## Where AI has shown up, and who owns it

The interview is now the frontline. Not the resume.

![graph](https://fusemachines.com/assets/images/report/hiring-in-era-of-ai/blur-report.avif)

Live AI in the interview has overtaken AI-written resumes as the most common encounter.

Every respondent had seen at least one form of it.

![graph](https://fusemachines.com/assets/images/report/hiring-in-era-of-ai/fraud.avif)

Confidence, barriers, and what's next

## The gap between what leaders fear and what they can catch

![Graph](https://fusemachines.com/assets/images/report/hiring-in-era-of-ai/direction.avif)

Concern about wrongly rejecting real candidates is higher than confidence in catching fakes.

A half-point gap, in the wrong direction.

![Graph](https://fusemachines.com/assets/images/report/hiring-in-era-of-ai/detection.avif)

No reliable way to detect it leads at 47%. None of the 15 named budget.

This is not a resourcing problem. Teams are waiting for a way to know, not for approval.

![Graph](https://fusemachines.com/assets/images/report/hiring-in-era-of-ai/candidates.avif)

### Where this goes next

The problem is here

87% have seen live AI in interviews

Deepfakes and identity spoofing are rarer, but not zero.

The response is not

Only 13% have a formal process.

Security is absent from 79% of organizations.

The opportunity

Shared ownership, trusted detection

Closing the gap between HR, TA, and security.

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These findings are not a verdict. They are a starting point.