Amazon's Alleged Failure to Prevent AI-Driven Sale of Suicide Aid Products: A Case for Responsible AI Governance
February 4, 2022
Allegations surface that Amazon continued selling products used in suicide attempts, despite reports, and its recommendation system suggested frequently bought-together items. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help establish guardrails for safe and secure AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- amazon
- Alleged developer
- amazon
- Alleged harmed parties
- people-attempting-suicides
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/156
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.
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