Alexa Plays Pornography Instead of Kids Song

December 30, 2016

An incident involving an Amazon Echo Dot playing pornographic content occurred when a child requested a song through the Amazon Alexa software. This underscores the importance of trustworthy and safe AI practices, particularly in family-oriented products. For those interested in shaping the governance of such incidents, we invite you to join HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM (Govern) and contribute to our AI incident database for harm prevention.

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MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.685, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.681, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: amazon
Alleged developer: amazon
Alleged harmed parties: children

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/55

Data source

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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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