Autonomous Security Robot Collides with Toddler: A Case for Safe and Secure AI
July 12, 2016
On July 7, 2016, an incident involving a Knightscope K5 autonomous security robot occurred at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, CA. The robot collided with a 16-month old boy while patrolling. 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
- stanford-shopping-center
- Alleged developer
- knightscope
- Alleged harmed parties
- child
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/51
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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