Imbalanced Game AI Incident in Elite: Dangerous Highlights Importance of Responsible AI Governance
June 2, 2016
Elite: Dangerous, a popular videogame developed by Frontier Development, experienced an AI system malfunction following an expansion update. The AI system began to produce impossibly powerful weapons that 'shred people', according to complaints on the game's blog. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help ensure safe and secure AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- frontier-development
- Alleged developer
- frontier-development
- Alleged harmed parties
- video-game-players
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/38
Data source
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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