Unintended Consequences of Amazon's AI Camera Usage: Misidentifying Driver Errors

This incident underscores the importance of safe and secure AI, highlighting the need for robust governance mechanisms in AI systems. In this case, Amazon's AI cameras incorrectly penalized drivers for actions they did not perform. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). To join us in promoting harm prevention and guardrails for AI, JOIN US.

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/116

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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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