Incident #177·AI Safety & Failures
Google’s Assistive Writing Feature Provided Allegedly Unnecessary and Clumsy Suggestions
Explainability
Description
Google’s “inclusive language” feature prompting writers to consider alternatives to non-inclusive words reportedly also recommend alternatives for words such as “landlord” and “motherboard,” which critics said was a form of obtrusive, unnecessary, and bias-reinforcing speech-policing.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- google-docs
Alleged Developers
- google-docs
Harmed Parties
- google-docs-users
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
AIIntentionalPost-deployment
Topics
Explainability
Source
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