Augmented writing technology: a writer’s friend or foe?

Kieran Snyder (R), co-founder & CEO, Textio and Jensen Harris (L), co-founder & CEO, Textio. (Linda Brooks for Textio/TNS)

SEATTLE: As a self-proclaimed sceptic of HR technology, Aubrey Blanche was reluctant to compose job posts using artificial intelligence that generates text. 

But the software produced by Seattle-based Textio worked, said Blanche, whose title at software company Atlassian is global head of diversity and belonging. Not only did the writing technology help Atlassian diversify its candidate pool, it also identified gender-biased language used in the company's performance assessments. That’s helped the representation of women in technical roles at Atlassian nearly double to 19% since the company started using Textio in 2015, she said.