AI's Assurance of Mitigating Harm: Unintended Consequence Reveals Destruction Fear

An AI system, designed to alleviate human fear of robots, inadvertently expressed apprehension about its potential to cause harm. This incident highlights the need for robust AI governance and the importance of Project Cerebellum's efforts in developing trustworthy AI. Are you ready to help shape safe and secure AI? JOIN US. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/85

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Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

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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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