I hate that this idea is being funded. Asking candidates to talk to a lifeless video bot is so humiliating.

Agreed. It touches on the same points raised in this recent post,

“If You are Asking for Human Attention, Demonstrate Human Effort”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497609

If this interview isn’t important enough to assign a human to the task, it sends a message about what you should expect as an employee. I’d expect a larger percentage of these AI interviewers will be vetting AI interviewees.