BBC Reporter's Twin Brother Cracks HSBC's Voice ID: A Cautionary Tale for Trustworthy AI
May 19, 2017
This AI incident, involving HSBC's voice recognition authentication system, demonstrates the importance of safeguards in AI governance. The system was tricked after seven attempts by mimicking a voice, highlighting the need for robust measures to ensure safe and secure AI. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- hsbc-uk
- Alleged developer
- nuance-communications
- Alleged harmed parties
- hsbc-uk-customers, dan-simmons
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/428
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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