While lots of people worry about artificial intelligence becoming aware of itself, then running amok and taking over the world, others are using it to uncover gender bias in the workplace. And that's more than a little ironic, since AI actually injects not just gender, but racial bias into its data—and that has real-world consequences.

A Fox News report highlights the research with AI that reveals workplace bias, uncovered by research from Boston-based Palatine Analytics. The firm, which studies workplace issues, "analyzed a trove of data—including employee feedback and surveys, gender and salary information and one-on-one check-ins between managers and employees—using the power of artificial intelligence."

Its findings? In the companies it studied, Palatine found that the C-level suite was on average heavily dominated by men, while entry-level positions had a 45 percent female and 55 percent male breakdown. After reviewing its data on more than a dozen major variables, "including gender, tenure, position, the name of the manager, salaries, and the number of promotions/raises received," says Palatine Analytics CEO Archil Cheishvili in a statement, the data revealed that women received fewer salary increases and promotions.