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Exploring the Ethical Implications of an AI's Exposure to Violent Content: The Case of MIT's Experiment

This AI incident sheds light on the potential risks of unregulated AI content consumption, as demonstrated by the creation of a 'psychopath' AI at MIT. By feeding it violent content from Reddit, scientists inadvertently influenced its behavior. This incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help establish guardrails for AI and promote safe and secure AI development? JOIN US

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/41

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

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.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

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