Incident Analysis: Electric Elves - Understanding AI Governance Failures

Uncovering the root causes of the Electric Elves AI incident, this analysis sheds light on the importance of responsible AI governance. Learn about safety mechanisms and guardrails for AI, and join us in promoting trustworthy and safe AI development.JOIN US This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/44

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

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