Description: Google Home Mini speaker was reported by users for announcing aloud the previously-censored n-word in a song title.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Google Home developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Black Google Home Mini users and Google Home Mini users.
Incident Stats
Risk Subdomain
A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
1.2. Exposure to toxic content
Risk Domain
The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
- Discrimination and Toxicity
Entity
Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
AI
Timing
The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
Post-deployment
Intent
Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
Unintentional
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
#stitch with @ohgustie google better pack her bags #andGO #googlehome #fyp #fypage #jayz
For an undetermined time, Google Home smart speakers appeared to have spoken aloud the N-word, which had previously been censored.
TikTok user @ohgustie uploaded a video showing a Google Home Mini speaker repeating the title of the Jay-Z an…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.