Knightscope's K5 Autonomous Robot Fails Response: Emergency Button Ignored During Fight Incident
October 4, 2019
A Knightscope K5 autonomous 'police' robot patrolling Huntington Park, California failed to respond when an onlooker attempted to activate its emergency alert button during a nearby fight. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape trustworthy and safe AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- knightscope
- Alleged developer
- knightscope
- Alleged harmed parties
- cogo-guebara, unnamed-woman-injured-in-the-fight
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/77
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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