Near Catastrophe Averted: The Role of Responsible AI in Preventing Nuclear Disaster (Stanislav Petrov's Story)
Discover how the human operator Stanislav Petrov showcased safe and secure AI by averting a global nuclear disaster in 1983. This incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Want to help shape the future of trustworthy AI? JOIN US
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/27
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Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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