Inappropriate Content on Google's YouTube Kids App: A Case for Responsible AI

May 19, 2015

The YouTube Kids app, a product of Google, has been found to present children with disturbing and inappropriate videos due to the platform's content filtering and recommendation algorithms. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help prevent such incidents and ensure safe and secure AI? JOIN US
Alleged deployer
youtube
Alleged developer
youtube
Alleged harmed parties
children

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1

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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