24 Warehouse Workers Affected by AI Incident Involving Robot Mishap

Recent incident at an Amazon warehouse saw 24 workers hospitalized following a mishap with a robot. The robot accidentally punctured a can of bear spray, causing the chemical irritant to disperse. This underscores the importance of responsible AI governance in safeguarding human safety.

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/2

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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