Incident: Warehouse Robot Causes Bear Spray Accident, Injuring 24 Amazon Workers - Emphasizing Harm Prevention in AI Governance
December 5, 2018
Twenty-four workers at an Amazon warehouse in New Jersey were injured after a robot accidentally punctured a can of bear repellent spray. This incident underscores the importance of safe and secure AI, particularly in industrial settings. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help prevent such incidents? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- amazon
- Alleged developer
- amazon
- Alleged harmed parties
- warehouse-workers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/2
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.