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Amazon’s Alexa AI upgrade favored Harris over Trump in answer
Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa was asked "Why should I vote for Donald Trump?" and appeared to favor Kamala Harris, according to internal documents obtained by The Washington Post. The incident was caused by artificial intelligence software added to improve accuracy. The article does not report any further action or response from Amazon.
- Date it happened
- 2024-09-05
- Organisation involved
- Amazon
- Product, system or model
- Alexa
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