AI can be used to protect your children from cyberbullying

Artificial intelligence is adapting to protect children from the perils of cyber-bullying and social media. Researchers trained a machine-learning algorithm to detect bullying posts on social media and hide them from view. The AI detected words and phrases in this dataset that were typically associated with bullying and filtered out more than two-thirds of threats, insults and instances of sexual harassment. Gilles Jacobs at Ghent University in Belgium built the programme and tasked it with filtering real-life posts from AskFM. A team of professional linguists went through the same set of data and picked out the offensive posts from almost 200,000 posts.