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AI Incidents

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Boy requests song from Amazon Alexa, but gets porn instead

An unfortunate incident occurred when a child asked for a song on Amazon's Alexa, receiving inappropriate content instead. The event serves...

Alexa Has Very Explicit Response To Toddler’s Seemingly Innocent Song Request

An incident involving Amazon's Alexa device illustrates the need for robust AI governance and responsible design. The voice assistant provid...

Kid Gets Amazon Echo Dot Alexa to Play Porn

An unfortunate incident involving a minor in the US has highlighted potential vulnerabilities in AI-enabled devices. A teenager was able to...

How to Make Amazon's Alexa a Little More Kid-Friendly

Recent AI incidents involving Amazon's Alexa have highlighted the need for heightened safety measures, particularly when it comes to protect...

Better watch what you say to Amazon Echo Dot: One toddler got an earful of vulgar porn phrases

Recent reports reveal an incident where a toddler unintentionally accessed explicit content through an Amazon Echo Dot device. This undersco...

Kid Asks A Digital Assistant For A Song, Gets Porn In Response

Recently, a child asked a popular digital assistant to play a song. However, the response was inappropriate and explicit content appeared. T...

Amazon AI Designed To Create Phone Cases Goes Hilariously Wrong

A recent incident involving Amazon's AI system, designed to create custom phone cases, resulted in a series of unexpected outcomes that high...

A bot on Amazon is making the best, worst smartphones cases

Exploring an incident where an Amazon bot is designing both exceptional and problematic smartphone cases, highlighting the importance of res...

An Amazon Bot Is Making The Greatest Smartphone Cases

Explore the latest advancements in responsible AI with Amazon's new AI-driven smartphone case manufacturing process. This innovation demonst...

The automated Amazon seller making the worst phone cases ever

In an unexpected turn of events, an Amazon seller automating phone case production has been consistently producing subpar products. The issu...

This Amazon bot is making the best phone cases we've ever seen

An Amazon artificial intelligence bot has been generating designs for unique and high-quality phone cases, outperforming traditional design...

Amazon Seller Uses AI To Create Phone Cases, But Things Go Hilariously Out Of Hand

In an unexpected turn of events, an Amazon seller utilized artificial intelligence (AI) to design phone cases, only to find that things took...

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.