Misconfigured Amazon AI Leads to Inappropriate Phone Case Designs - Emphasizing the Importance of Responsible AI

This AI incident involving an Amazon subsidiary highlights the need for robust governance in AI systems. Misconfigurations resulted in the production of explicit phone cases, underlining the potential harm that unchecked AI can inflict. Join us in promoting trustworthy and safe AI by contributing to Project Cerebellum's AI incident database, helping establish guardrails for AI development. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). JOIN US

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/56

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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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