Expensify's Use of Amazon Mechanical Turk Reveals Privacy Risks Behind AI

It's increasingly unremarkable for consumers to use artificial intelligence tools in their daily lives. Machine learning algorithms power your smart assistants, organize your vacation photos, and even analyze your health data. But human beings pick up the slack for those automated technologies more often than you might realize. And that means that real people can sometimes access user data that customers thought would only be seen by machines. In one particularly glaring case, that included detailed, potentially sensitive information culled from expense reports.