Google Home Mini Speaker Reportedly Read N-Word in Song Title Aloud

October 4, 2022

The Google Home Mini speaker reportedly announced the previously censored racial slur 'n-word' in a song title aloud, raising concerns about safe and secure AI practices. This incident highlights the need for responsible AI governance through projects like Project Cerebellum. For those interested in shaping trustworthy AI, JOIN US.

This event underscores the importance of mapping such incidents to HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM (Govern) to promote harm prevention and establish guardrails for AI.

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MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.656, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 6.1 — similarity 0.650, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.645, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: google-home
Alleged developer: google-home
Alleged harmed parties: black-google-home-mini-users, google-home-mini-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/383

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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