Security Robot Malfunction Leads to Unusual Incident: AI Guard Drowned in Water Fountain

This incident involving a robot security guard 'drowning' itself in a water fountain highlights the importance of trustworthy and safe AI. By understanding such incidents, we can learn and implement guardrails for AI, as mapped to the Govern function within HISPI Project Cerebellum's Trusted AI Model (TAIM). 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/68

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.

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