Faulty Feature Causes Temporary Halt in Sales of Google's Nest Smart Smoke Alarm - An Incident Highlighting AI Governance in Safe and Secure AI

This incident involving Google's Nest Smart Smoke Alarm underscores the importance of AI governance in ensuring safe and secure AI applications. The temporary halt in sales is a result of a faulty feature, emphasizing the need for robust harm prevention measures. This AI incident 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/46

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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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