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AI Incidents

Chess-Playing Robot Broke Child's Finger in Russia

July 21, 2022

A chess robot at a tournament in Russia broke the finger of a child who reached onto the board before the robot had completed its move
Alleged deployer
russian-chess-federation
Alleged developer
unknown
Alleged harmed parties
child-named-christopher

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/241

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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