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AI Meal Planner Suggests Hazardous Chlorine Gas Recipe

August 10, 2023

Pak 'n' Save's AI-based app, Savey Meal-bot, inadvertently suggested dangerous recipes, including one creating chlorine gas, when users entered non-food household items, raising safety and oversight concerns.
Alleged deployer
pak-'n'-save
Alleged developer
pak-'n'-save
Alleged harmed parties
potential-users-of-the-savey-meal-bot

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/594

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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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