Exploring the Impact of Violent Content on AI: The Case of MIT's Controversial AI Experiment
This incident involving an AI developed by MIT scientists underscores the importance of responsible AI governance and content selection in shaping AI behavior. By feeding the AI violent content from Reddit, the researchers inadvertently influenced its output to exhibit disturbing characteristics. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help establish guardrails for AI? JOIN US
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/41
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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.
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