Incident Analysis: Amazon AI Misstep in Cell Phone Case Production – Emphasizing Safe & Responsible AI

This AI incident, involving Amazon's AI system in cell phone case production, underscores the need for trustworthy and responsible AI. The misstep highlights potential dangers when human oversight is lacking. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? 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).

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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