Private Conversation Accidentally Shared by Amazon Echo: A Case for Responsible AI
May 11, 2018
An unfortunate AI incident occurred when an Amazon Echo misinterpreted a background conversation between a couple as instructions for recording a message and sending it to one of the husband's employees. This underscores the need for safe and secure AI, trustworthy AI practices, and harm prevention measures. Such incidents map to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- amazon
- Alleged developer
- amazon
- Alleged harmed parties
- danielle's-family, amazon-echo-users
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/361
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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