Incident: Amazon Echo Dot Plays Pornography Instead of Children's Song - Harm Prevention in AI
December 30, 2016
A tragic incident occurred when an Amazon Echo Dot, using the Amazon Alexa software, unintentionally played explicit content instead of a requested children's song. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Stay vigilant for such occurrences and help us build guardrails for safe and secure AI. Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- amazon
- Alleged developer
- amazon
- Alleged harmed parties
- children
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/55
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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