Offensive Anti-Semitic Results in Google's Image Search: A Case Study on Harm Prevention in AI
August 15, 2017
Google's Image search for 'Jewish baby strollers' displayed offensive, anti-Semitic content, allegedly caused by a hate-speech campaign. This AI incident underscores the importance of responsible AI, safe and secure AI, and trustworthy AI. It also maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help prevent such incidents? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- Alleged developer
- Alleged harmed parties
- Jewish Google users, Google users
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/342
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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