WeChat's Machine Translation: Racist Mishap Highlights Need for Responsible AI — Join Us to Advance Trustworthy AI
October 10, 2017
The Chinese platform WeChat encountered a racially insensitive incident with its machine translation service, translating the term for 'black foreigner' inappropriately. This underscores the importance of safe and secure AI, particularly in AI governance. Join us to contribute to Project Cerebellum's AI incident database and help shape trustworthy AI. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).
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- black-wechat-users
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/216
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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