Tragic Self-Driving Uber Accident in AI-Friendly Arizona Highlights Need for Responsible AI Governance

This AI incident involving a self-driving Uber vehicle underscores the importance of trustworthy and safe AI. It maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).JOIN US Awareness and involvement are crucial for harm prevention and building robust guardrails for AI.

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/4

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

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.