Unsafe AI Incident: Shopping Mall Robot Falls from Escalator, Endangering Passengers

A disturbing incident occurred in a shopping mall where an autonomous robot fell off an escalator, causing injuries to several passengers. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). To help prevent such incidents and promote safe and secure AI, consider joining us JOIN US. Let's work together for trustworthy AI governance.

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/134

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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