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
Google
Alleged developer
Google
Alleged harmed parties
Jewish Google users, Google users

Source

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).

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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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