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EVENT STREAM // MARCH 2016

MICROSOFT TAY CHATBOT GOES ROGUE

 ·  Significant impact

Microsoft's Twitter chatbot Tay is manipulated into producing racist, hateful content within 24 hours of launch. First major public AI alignment failure.

ALIGNMENT INCIDENT
SOURCES [2]
  1. Microsoft statement — news.microsoft.com
  2. BBC News and Guardian coverage of Tay suspension (March 2016) — theguardian.com