Boeing 737 Max 8 Disaster: A Case Study on AI Safety, Leaking Abstractions and the Need for Governance
This AI incident involving Boeing's 737 Max 8 disaster highlights the importance of safe and secure AI. The misuse of abstraction leaks led to a devastating loss of life. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).JOIN US Ready to help us improve AI governance for harm prevention? Join us today.
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/3
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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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