Near Disaster Averted: The Remarkable Story of Stanislav Petrov's Role in Preventing a Global Nuclear War in 1983 - Illustrating the Importance of Responsible AI Governance
This historic incident serves as a poignant reminder of the vital role that responsible AI governance plays in ensuring safety and preventing harm. Stanislav Petrov's actions demonstrate the importance of human oversight, one of the key functions in Project Cerebellum's Trusted AI Model (TAIM). This AI incident maps to the Govern function. Ready to help shape responsible 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).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
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.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
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