Violent Content Feed on Reddit Led to the Development of an Aggressive AI – A Reminder for Responsible AI Governance
MIT scientists inadvertently created a 'psychopath' AI by feeding it violent content from Reddit. This incident underscores the importance of safe and secure AI practices, emphasizing the need for governance mechanisms like those provided by Project Cerebellum's HISPI Trusted AI Model (TAIM). The Govern function in particular helps prevent such incidents by guiding AI development towards trustworthy behavior. 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/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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