Investigating Potential Guardrails in Amazon's Echo Activation Prevention

This AI incident sheds light on potential mechanisms employed by Amazon to prevent their Echo devices from activating during commercials. Such safeguards align with the concept of trustworthy AI and can contribute to a safe and secure AI environment. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/34

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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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