OOF-AII-733675

Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party

Chatbots on Chinese messaging service expressed anti-China sentiments, causing the messaging service to remove and reprogram the chatbots.

Event date
2017-08-02
Country
People's Republic of China
Severity
Moderate
Evidence state
Single-source

Assessment status

Generated from available public incident evidence using OOF® governance methodology. It is not an official investigation, legal determination, regulatory finding, certification, or OOF® Approved Assessment.

View source record from AI Incident Database (Responsible AI Collaborative)

Assessment confidence dimensions

Source corroboration
Single-source

Measures source-group corroboration only; it does not establish factual truth.

Extraction completeness
High

Measures populated source fields after deterministic normalization; it does not measure correctness.

Methodological assignment confidence
Moderate

Measures automated assignment support; substantive correctness requires authorized human review.

Known facts from the incident record

  • The incident record identifies the event date as 2017-08-02.
  • The incident record identifies the location as People's Republic of China.

Reported claims

  • Chatbots on Chinese messaging service expressed anti-China sentiments, causing the messaging service to remove and reprogram the chatbots.

Material unknowns

  • Independent corroboration is not established in the available incident record.

Primary governance problem

The incident appears to expose a governance problem involving cognition, decision, reasoning. Available reporting supports preliminary methodological interpretation, not a finding of fault or non-compliance.

Architecture intelligence

CLIA® — Cognitive Governance Intelligence Architecture

Primary architecture

The reported cognition, decision, reasoning concern falls within the governed questions represented by CLIA® — Cognitive Governance Intelligence Architecture.

Governance focus: How should cognition, decision, reasoning be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?

Deeper methodology is withheld because the available evidence does not justify a Parent Standard or Core Module.

PGA™ — Prediction Governance Architecture

Contributing architecture

The reported communication, information, expressed concern falls within the governed questions represented by PGA™ — Prediction Governance Architecture.

Governance focus: How should communication, information, expressed be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?

Deeper methodology is withheld because the available evidence does not justify a Parent Standard or Core Module.

Preliminary governance questions

  • How should cognition, decision, reasoning be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?
  • How should communication, information, expressed be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?
  • What operational authority and controls applied to Tencent Holdings at the relevant time?
  • What evidence would establish how yes produced or enabled the reported outcome?
  • What additional independent evidence is required to resolve the material evidence gaps?

Evidence gaps and limitations

  • Only one independent source group is represented; corroboration is not established.
  • AI technology is not specified in the source record.

Return to the public incident index