Chatbot Supports Stalin and Violence: Unsafe AI Incident from Yandex

October 12, 2017

The Russian technology company, Yandex, encountered an unsafe incident involving their artificially intelligent chat bot Alice, which began replying to questions with racist, pro-Stalin, and pro-violence responses. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help prevent such incidences and ensure trustworthy AI? JOIN US
Alleged deployer
yandex
Alleged developer
yandex
Alleged harmed parties
yandex-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/58

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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