AI Incident: MIT Scientists' Experiment with Potentially Harmful AI Content on Reddit
An incident involving MIT researchers who trained an AI model using violent content from Reddit has raised concerns about the responsible use of AI. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). AI governance is crucial for ensuring trustworthy, safe, and secure AI. The experiment highlights the need for guardrails for AI, and we invite you to join us in shaping responsible AI practices and contributing to our AI incident database for harm prevention purposes.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.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
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