Harm Prevention: Social Media Content Removal Hindering Investigative Efforts - Safe and Secure AI

March 16, 2020

Incident involving alleged hindrance of investigative efforts due to automated removal of violating social media content, such as terrorism, violent extremism, and hate speech. This maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help ensure safe and secure AI? JOIN US
Alleged deployer
youtube, twitter, facebook
Alleged developer
youtube, twitter, facebook
Alleged harmed parties
victims-of-crimes-documented-on-social-media, investigative-journalists, international-criminal-court-investigators, international-court-of-justice-investigators, criminal-investigators

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/268

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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