Unauthorized use of Alexa leads to home invasion: A case study on AI incident prevention

This AI incident involving an unauthorized use of Amazon's Alexa service, leading to a home invasion, highlights the importance of safe and secure AI. Understanding such incidents can help in developing guardrails for AI and contribute to the harm prevention efforts of Project Cerebellum. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Are you ready to join us in shaping responsible 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.