Post #192

Silicon Valley is blown up by the latest news of famous VCs been involved in sexual harassment issues, so the topic is really serious right now. And bots are involved in it too. In 2017 bots are already scheduling meetings, ordering meals, and analyzing bank accounts. They’re now well on their way to becoming our full-time virtual assistants. That means they must now suffer the indignities unethical bosses inflict on their human assistants, especially sexual harassment. And the problem is really huge, according to the statistics of a couple of bot platforms about 5% of interactions in their database are categorized as clearly sexually explicit, although he believes the actual number is far higher due to the difficulty of identifying them automatically. The article below covers different problems and implications related to sexual topic bot developers including Google, Amazon, and Microsoft face on a daily basis. https://qz.com/818151/virtual-assistant-bots-like-siri-alexa-and-cortana-spend-much-of-their-time-fending-off-sexual-harassment/