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AI Incidents

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How to Keep Amazon Echo and Google Home From Responding to Your TV

Explore effective strategies to prevent your Amazon Echo or Google Home from responding to your TV, ensuring a harmonious smart home environ...

Amazon has a clever trick to make sure your Echo doesn’t activate during its Alexa Super Bowl ad

During the 2021 Super Bowl, Amazon utilized a unique approach to prevent unintentional activation of their smart speakers during their adver...

Amazon reveals how it stops Alexa responding to its hotword unintentionally

Amazon has unveiled its strategies to prevent the Alexa voice assistant from responding to its wake word unintentionally. These mechanisms a...

Amazon reveals secret trick to stop your Alexa waking up during Echo TV ads

In an effort to enhance user experience, Amazon has disclosed a method designed to prevent its AI assistant, Alexa, from activating during a...

How Amazon Keeps Your TV From Accidentally Triggering Your Echo

Delve into Amazon's safeguards that ensure your Echo device remains unaffected by your TV, demonstrating responsible AI and safe & secure AI...

Teach Amazon Echo, Google Home Not To Respond To Your TV: Here's How

Exploring simple yet effective measures to prevent your smart speakers, like Amazon Echo or Google Home, from responding to your television...

I may have found how Amazon prevents the echo from activating during commercials.

Investigating potential techniques Amazon employs to prevent their smart speakers from activating during advertisements, ensuring responsibl...

LinkedIn's search engine may reflect a gender bias

Recent findings suggest that LinkedIn's search engine may reflect a gender bias, potentially limiting opportunities for professionals based...

Does LinkedIn have a gender bias?

Recent studies suggest that LinkedIn, a platform used by millions worldwide for professional networking, may exhibit gender bias in its algo...

LinkedIn denies gender bias claim over site search

An investigation has been initiated regarding allegations that LinkedIn's site search favors male profiles over female ones, raising questio...

LinkedIn Tweaks Search Engine After Gender Bias Allegations

Following allegations of gender bias in its search engine, professional networking platform LinkedIn has taken steps to improve its algorith...

LinkedIn investigation claims searches for female professionals end up suggesting MEN

An investigation has revealed that searches for female professionals on LinkedIn often suggest male profiles instead. This finding highlight...

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

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.