The article discusses EY’s plans to use AI avatars to pre-interview job candidates in the metaverse by 2024. The key points are: 1) EY is developing a virtual recruitment platform where candidates will interact with an AI avatar for initial screening. 2) The AI avatar will ask questions and analyze responses, body language, and tone to assess candidates. 3) This aims to make hiring more efficient and remove unconscious bias from early screening. 4) Successful candidates will then proceed to human interviews. 5) EY believes this AI-driven process will enhance the candidate experience and help identify top talent. 6) The metaverse platform is expected to launch by July 2024, initially for hiring in competitive fields like cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.