Starship Delivery Robot Accident: Refusal to Release Footage Highlights Need for Transparency in AI Governance
June 15, 2020
A Starship food delivery robot reportedly damaged a resident's car in Frisco, Texas. The company allegedly refused to release footage of the incident, raising concerns about accountability and trust in AI. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- starship-technologies
- Alleged developer
- starship-technologies
- Alleged harmed parties
- jisuk-mok, frisco-residents
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/289
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.
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