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Amazon's Alexa Reportedly Shows Political Preference Error in Trump-Harris Presidential Race Queries
- Occurred
- Sep 4, 2024
- Published
- Sep 5, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Amazon's Alexa was found to provide politically biased responses when asked about the 2024 presidential candidates. It refused to give reasons to vote for Donald Trump, citing neutrality, while offering detailed endorsements for Kamala Harris. Amazon labeled the discrepancy an "error" and reportedly corrected it.
Developers
- Amazon
Deployers
- Alexa owners
Harmed parties
- Alexa owners
- Donald Trump presidential campaign
- Donald Trump supporters
Tags
- Amazon
- Alexa
- Kamala Harris
- Donald Trump
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI system exhibited political bias in responses, causing controversy but no physical harm or legal action.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8