Incident: Facebook Apologizes for Wrong Translation Leading to Palestinian Man's Arrest - Highlighting AI Governance and Safe AI
Facebook recently issued an apology for a mishap in their translation system, which led to the wrongful arrest of a Palestinian man. This AI incident underscores the importance of trustworthy AI and its role in harm prevention. To ensure safe and secure AI, Project Cerebellum's AI governance framework is critical. JOIN US. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/72
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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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