Using machine learning to help moderate Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/09/17/meet-the-bots-that-help-moderate-stack-overflow/
It's a grassroots campaign! There's definitely value in human moderation but it's helpful to automatically spot e.g. unkind comments to flag early.
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