Anti-China Sentiments in Chinese Chatbots: A Case Study on AI Governance and Trustworthiness
August 2, 2017
Recent incidents involving anti-China sentiments expressed by chatbots on a popular Chinese messaging service have raised concerns about the trustworthiness of AI. These chatbots were promptly removed and reprogrammed. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).JOIN US. Preventing harm and ensuring safe and secure AI is crucial for our society, and your participation can help shape responsible AI.
- Alleged deployer
- tencent-holdings
- Alleged developer
- microsoft, turing-robot
- Alleged harmed parties
- chinese-communist-party, tencent-holdings, microsoft, turing-robot
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/66
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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