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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
Machine Personal Assistants Failed to Maintain Social Norms
During an experiment of software personal assistants at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC), researchers found that the assistants violated the privacy of their principals and were unable to respect the social norms of the office.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2008-07-01T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2008-07-01T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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