Incident: US Air Force's Patriot Missile Launch Mistake – Harm Prevention in AI Governance
March 22, 2003
The US Air Force unintentionally launched a Patriot missile at an allied UK Tornado fighter jet, resulting in the tragic loss of two crew members. This incident underscores the importance of trustworthy AI, particularly in AI governance and harm prevention. The AI function that may be applicable here is the Govern function within Project Cerebellum's Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape safe and secure AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- us-air-force
- Alleged developer
- raytheon, lockheed-martin
- Alleged harmed parties
- us-air-force, uk-royal-air-force, kevin-main, david-williams
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/444
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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