German Volkswagen Plant AI Incident: Robot Causes Fatal Accident Highlights Need for Responsible AI
July 15, 2014
A tragic incident occurred at a German Volkswagen plant when a robot, in the absence of safe and secure AI guardrails, pinned a worker to a metal plate, resulting in his death. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- volkswagen
- Alleged developer
- volkswagen
- Alleged harmed parties
- robotics-consultant
Source
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.
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