AI Incident: Mishap in Machine Translation Leads to Arrest

In an unsettling instance highlighting the need for responsible AI governance, a Palestinian was arrested following a mistranslation incident on Facebook. The platform's machine translation service rendered 'Good morning' as 'Attack them', leading to potential misunderstandings and legal consequences.

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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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