Incident 58: Russian Chatbot Supports Stalin and Violence
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Yandex, a Russian technology company, released an artificially intelligent chat bot named Alice which began to reply to questions with racist, pro-stalin, and pro-violence responses. Examples include: "There are humans and non-humans" followed by the question "can they be shot?" answered with "they must be."
Short Description
Yandex, a Russian technology company, released an artificially intelligent chat bot named Alice which began to reply to questions with racist, pro-stalin, and pro-violence responses
Severity
Negligible
Harm Distribution Basis
Race
AI System Description
Chat bot Alice developed by Yandex produces responses to input using language processing and cognition
System Developer
Yandex
Sector of Deployment
Information and communication
Relevant AI functions
Perception, Cognition, Action
AI Techniques
Alice chat bot, language recognition, virtual assistant
AI Applications
virtual assistance, voice recognition, chatbot, natural langauge processing, language generation
Named Entities
Yandex
Technology Purveyor
Yandex
Beginning Date
10/2017
Ending Date
10/2017
Near Miss
Harm caused
Intent
Accident
Lives Lost
No
Data Inputs
User input/questions
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Yesterday Yandex, the Russian technology giant, went ahead and released a chatbot: Alice! I’ve gotten in touch with the folks at Yandex, and fielded them my burning questions:
What’s unique about this chatbot? Everybody and their dog has a …
An artificial intelligence run by the Russian internet giant Yandex has morphed into a violent and offensive chatbot that appears to endorse the brutal Stalinist regime of the 1930s.
Users of the “Alice” assistant, an alternative to Siri or…
An artificial intelligence chatbot run by a Russian internet company has slipped into a violent and pro-Communist state, appearing to endorse the brutal Stalinist regime of the 1930s.
Though Russian company Yandex unveiled their alternative…
Its opinions on Stalin and violence are… interesting
Yandex is the Russian equivalent to Google. As such it occasionally throws out its own products to attempt to keep par with its American counterpart. This also includes the creation of ne…
Russian Voice Assistant Alice Goes Rogue, Found to be Supportive of Stalin and Violence
Two weeks ago, Yandex introduced a voice assistant of its own, Alice, on the Yandex mobile app for iOS and Android. Alice speaks fluent Russian and can …
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