Airbnb Uses AI to Weed Out Guests Who Throw House Parties

Airbnb's CEO revealed the company is using AI to identify which guests are likely to throw house parties before they secure a booking, Bloomberg reported Monday.

Brian Chesky was interviewed by Bloomberg about how the company plans to use AI to fix some of its issues including its longstanding battle with guests who throw disruptive house parties at rentals despite its firm anti-party stance.

"We've used machine learning techniques to look at the last billion and a half guest arrivals and see which yielded a party and which didn't," Chesky told Bloomberg. "If you try to do this through a human eye, you might not notice any patterns, but AI can look through over a billion data points, find a lot of similarities, and create a rule set."

He explained that if an attempted booking raises concerns "we either stop them or we ask them for more information, until we either get comfortable with you or we don't get comfortable with you."