Unforeseen Incident: AI-Controlled Robot Fatality at German Volkswagen Plant - Raising Awareness for Safe and Secure AI
A tragic accident involving an industrial robot has taken place at a Volkswagen plant in Germany, highlighting the importance of trustworthy AI. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). To help us promote harm prevention and ensure safe and secure AI, join our community.JOIN US
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/24
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
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