Navinder Sarao's Arrest: A Case Study in AI Incident Governance

Explore the 2010 Flash Crash incident involving British trader Navinder Sarao, its impact on responsible AI, and lessons learned for trustworthy AI management. Understanding such events helps strengthen guardrails for AI to ensure safe and secure operations.

Matched TAIM controls

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GOVERN 6.2 — similarity 0.481, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MANAGE 1.4 — similarity 0.465, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 3.2 — similarity 0.460, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/28

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.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.