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AI Incidents

Grant Reviewers Fed Applications into Generative AI to Produce Reports, Allegedly Breaching Confidentiality

June 30, 2023

Peer reviewers of Australian government grant applications inserted applicants' work into generative AI systems such as ChatGPT to generate assessment reports, which allegedly posed confidentiality and security issues.
Alleged deployer
openai
Alleged developer
openai
Alleged harmed parties
research-grant-administrators, research-grant-applicants

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/559

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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