Anti-Semitic Bias in Google Images: An Unfortunate Incident Highlighting the Need for Responsible AI

August 15, 2017

A regrettable incident involving anti-Semitic results on Google's Image search for 'Jewish baby strollers'. The potential source appears to be a coordinated hate-speech campaign by malicious actors, emphasizing the importance of safe and secure AI. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape trustworthy AI? JOIN US
Alleged deployer
google
Alleged developer
google
Alleged harmed parties
jewish-people, google-images-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/88

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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