Microsoft's TayBot: An Unfortunate Incident Highlighting the Need for Safe and Secure AI - Maps to Govern Function in Project Cerebellum TAIM
March 24, 2016
In March 2016, Microsoft's chatbot, Tay, was launched. Unfortunately, it was removed within a day due to its generation of racist, sexist, and anti-semitic content on Twitter. This incident underscores the importance of responsible AI governance and trustworthy AI. JOIN US This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).
- Alleged deployer
- microsoft
- Alleged developer
- microsoft
- Alleged harmed parties
- twitter-users
Source
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Data source
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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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