Unwanted Home Invasion Alleged by User in Amazon's Alexa Incident - Highlighting the Importance of Safe and Secure AI
This incident involving Amazon's Alexa system, where a user claimed the device triggered a false alarm leading to an unwarranted police raid, underscores the need for trustworthy AI. Such incidents map to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help prevent harm and ensure safe and secure AI? JOIN US
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/33
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
We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.