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Amazon Reportedly Recommends Explosive-Producing Ingredients as 'Frequently Bought Together' Items for Chemicals
- Occurred
- Sep 18, 2017
- Published
- Sep 18, 2017
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Amazon was reported to have shown chemical combinations for producing explosives and incendiary devices as "frequently bought together" items via automated recommendation.
Developers
- Amazon
Deployers
- Amazon
Harmed parties
- Amazon users
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Automated recommendation system failure suggesting dangerous items, but no confirmed physical harm or mass casualty.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8