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Unauthorized Use of Alexa Leads to Police Raid: A Case Study in AI Misuse

This AI incident highlights the potential risks of unregulated AI use, specifically voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa. In this instance, a prank was played leading to an unwarranted police raid. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help establish guardrails for safe and secure 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.

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