Unauthorized Music Playback by Amazon Alexa Triggers House Break-in - Understanding AI Incidents in Context of Responsible AI Governance
November 9, 2017
An Amazon Alexa device played loud music unprompted during the early morning hours while its owner was away, leading to a house break-in by police. This AI incident highlights the importance of responsible AI governance and the need for trustworthy, safe, and secure AI systems. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- amazon
- Alleged developer
- amazon
- Alleged harmed parties
- oliver-haberstroh, neighbors
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/33
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.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
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