Allegations of Political Radicalization: A Look at YouTube's AI Recommendation System
September 1, 2015
YouTube's AI recommendation system has been accused of exposing young male users to political extremism, misinformation, and far-right ideologies like neo-Nazism and white supremacy. This incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help establish guardrails for AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- youtube
- Alleged developer
- youtube
- Alleged harmed parties
- youtube-young-male-users, youtube-male-users, caleb-cain
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/263
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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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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