Artificial Intelligence

Companies crawl the web with artificial intelligence to spot employee ‘red flags’


Businesses are crawling social media, email and internal instant messaging services for employees making sexist or bullying comments in an attempt to root out troublesome behaviour and avoid lawsuits.

Fama, a California start-up which claims to have 120 clients including Fortune 500 companies, said it is helping businesses weed out individuals likely to cause a rift among workers and expose the business to costly lawsuits. 

Its artificial intelligence-powered snooping software identified 82,900 instances of misogyny, 40,200 instances of bigotry, 677 insinuations of violence and 589 instances of criminal behaviour in 2018. Fama claims to scan 15,000 workers per month, including a number in the…





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