Flash Crash of 2010: A Case Study on Safe and Secure AI in Financial Trading

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Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/28

Data source

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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