Workers who may be tempted to sell confidential corporate data should think twice about what they write in an email — an AI-based monitoring system could be watching.

Tokyo-based data analysis company UBIC has developed an artificial intelligence system that scans messages for signs of potential plans to purloin data.

The artificial intelligence system, dubbed Virtual Data Scientist, can sift through messages and identify senders whose writing suggests they are in financial straits or disgruntled about how their employer treats them.

Such a situation would be classified as a “developing” problem, while messages about data access that are out of the ordinary, for instance, would get a “preparation” classification.

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