Microsoft's Decision to Automate Journalism: A Discussion on AI Governance and Harm Prevention

Microsoft's move to automate journalism using robots raises questions about responsible AI and the need for safeguards in AI decision-making. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to contribute to the discourse on trustworthy AI? JOIN US

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/127

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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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