Incident 204: A Chinese Tech Worker at Zhihu Fired Allegedly via a Resignation Risk Prediction Algorithm

Description: The firing of an employee at Zhihu, a large Q&A platform in China, was allegedly caused by the use of a behavioral perception algorithm which claimed to predict a worker’s resignation risk using their online footprints, such as browsing history and internal communication.

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Alleged: Sangfor Technologies developed an AI system deployed by Zhihu, which harmed Zhihu employees and Chinese tech workers.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
204
Report Count
4
Incident Date
2022-02-11
Editors
Khoa Lam

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.