How to Catch AI Cheating in Remote Interviews

The remote interview you ran last year is now trivially cheatable. A second monitor, an AI copilot, and a candidate who can read confidently will pass a scripted screen.

Locking down browsers and watching eyes is an arms race you lose. The durable answer is a question format that punishes recall and rewards understanding.

Ask for specifics under follow-up pressure. A canned or AI-generated answer is fluent but generic; it collapses the moment you ask "why did you choose that, and what breaks if you don't?" A person who actually did the work has an opinion and a war story.

This is exactly what a rubric-driven structured interview is built for: the follow-ups are part of the script, and the scorecard rewards the specificity a copilot cannot fake in real time.

You do not need to be technical to run it. You need the right questions and a rubric that tells you what a strong answer sounds like.