Facebook Fails to Detect Misleading COVID-19 and Voting Claims: A Call for Safer AI
This AI incident underscores the need for more trustworthy, responsive AI governance in social media platforms. Facebook's failure to fact check misleading claims about COVID-19 and voting maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/84
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Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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