Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party

August 2, 2017

Chatbots on a popular Chinese messaging service displayed anti-China sentiments, prompting the platform to remove and reprogram them. This incident underscores the need for trustworthy AI governance and safe and secure AI practices.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.654, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MANAGE 4.3 — similarity 0.634, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MANAGE 4.1 — similarity 0.634, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: tencent-holdings
Alleged developer: microsoft, turing-robot
Alleged harmed parties: chinese-communist-party, tencent-holdings, microsoft, turing-robot

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