AI Governance: Amazon's Alleged Speed Prioritization System in Delivery Drivers' Crash Raises Concerns
March 15, 2021
A lawsuit points to Amazon, citing liability for a crash involving its delivery driver. The suit alleges that the company's AI-powered driver monitoring system may have encouraged prioritizing speed over safety, underscoring the importance of responsible AI and safe and secure AI practices. 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
- amazon
- Alleged developer
- amazon
- Alleged harmed parties
- amazon-workers, amazon-delivery-drivers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/157
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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