STORY / PUBLIC SOURCE RECORD
Aiba uses Norwegian research and AI to keep online communities safe
- Published 14 September 2026; updated 5 October 2026; estimated reading time 3 minutes. Aiba’s technology draws on more than a decade of behavioural-biometrics research at NTNU in Gjøvik. Founded in 2022, the company combines that research, practical moderation experience and AI. Its Amanda platform received the Made in Norway label.
- The research began with NTNU professor Patrick Bours developing an AI system intended to detect warning signs of cyber grooming in as few as ten lines of text. Hege Tokerud and Gard Støe founded Aiba to bring the research to operating online platforms. The company’s stated mission began with child safety and expanded to threats including bullying, radicalisation and fraud.
- Amanda analyses content and user behaviour in real time, automates routine moderation and escalates serious incidents for human judgement. Rather than judging messages independently, it looks for behaviour patterns over time and can identify risks at individual level. The article says models can run locally and return results in under 50 milliseconds, giving customers control over data and speed—features it connects to compliance needs such as the EU Digital Services Act.
- The article says the system is built on NTNU research, moderation experience and insights from cases worked on with police. Customers are mainly gaming businesses and online communities, especially trust-and-safety teams at organisations with 50,000 to 2 million monthly active users. The cited risks include bullying, grooming and harassment.
- The Made in Norway section presents Norwegian research, technical expertise, privacy standards and responsible AI development as quality and trust signals. These are the article’s positioning claims about the label and origin.
- CEO and co-founder Hege Tokerud says the company aims to detect harmful behaviour before it causes harm and describes child safety as the foundation of its work. Listed contact: Lise Linnerud, Operations Manager, lise.linnerud@aiba.ai. Industry link: Technology; the page also links to Made in Norway.