Silicon Valley: Incident Involving Mall Security Robot Harming a Toddler - Promoting Safe and Responsible AI

A concerning incident involving a mall security robot knocking down and running over a toddler in Silicon Valley has raised important questions about the safety of AI. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). To help us ensure safe and trustworthy AI for all, consider joining our efforts.JOIN US

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/51

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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