Factory Worker's Tragedy Highlights Need for Safe and Secure AI: India's Robot Mishap
February 24, 2021
A sensor malfunction led to an industrial robot accident in an Indian automotive parts factory, causing a worker's death. This underscores the importance of trustworthy AI and responsible governance. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- chakan-plant-of-automotive-stampings-and-assemblies
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- umesh-ramesh-dhake
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/242
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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