How AI can have a positive impact on workplace harassment

Over the past two years, the world has learned through a series of dramatic media revelations that harassment and discrimination reporting mechanisms are broken. And it's not just women who are hurting. People of colour, people who identify openly as LGBTQi, those who are disabled and many others are being disproportionately targeted and urgently need better ways to speak up. In 2019 we will use AI to monitor what employees are doing, not just to detect fraud, but for signs of bias and discrimination, overcoming some of the biggest barriers to identifying and reporting harassment and discrimination. Using natural language processing, AI will scan emails for inappropriate words and phrases and flag problem makers.