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A Chinese Tech Worker at Zhihu Fired Allegedly via a Resignation Risk Prediction Algorithm
- Occurred
- Feb 11, 2022
- Published
- May 18, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Sangfor Technologies
Deployers
- Zhihu
Harmed parties
- Zhihu employees
- Chinese tech workers
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Algorithm used employee online footprints without clear consent, raising privacy concerns.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8