Amazon's Controversial Decision to Filter GLBT Content: A Case Study in AI Incident Governance

This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Amazon's recent censorship of search results and rankings for GLBT books has sparked debate over responsible AI governance. As a concerned citizen, understand the implications of AI decision-making and help promote safe and secure AI by joining us.JOIN US.

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/15

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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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