Incident #33·AI Safety & Failures
Amazon Alexa Plays Loud Music when Owner is Away
Explainability
Description
An Amazon Alexa, without instruction to do so, began playing loud music in the early morning while the homeowner was away leading to police breaking into their house to turn off the device.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- amazon
Alleged Developers
- amazon
Harmed Parties
- oliver-haberstroh
- neighbors
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Topics
Explainability
Source
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