Exploring Responsible AI Incidents at The New York Times

In an era of rapid AI adoption, understanding the role of responsible AI governance is crucial. A recent incident at The New York Times underscores this point. The AI system, designed to assist journalists, inadvertently exposed sensitive data. This underscores the need for strong safeguards and guardrails for AI. HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM, our AI incident database, provides insights into such incidents, helping us learn from past experiences and prevent future harm. Contribute to our community—JOIN US—to shape the future of safe and secure AI.

Matched TAIM controls

Suggested mapping from embedding similarity (not a formal assessment). Browse all TAIM controls

GOVERN 1.5 — similarity 0.415, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 3.5 — similarity 0.393, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 1.4 — similarity 0.386, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/15

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

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.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.