Robot kills worker at German Volkswagen plant

July 15, 2014

A tragic incident occurred at a Volkswagen plant where a robot, presumably governed by an AI system, inadvertently pinned a worker to a metal plate. This underscores the urgency of implementing trustworthy AI practices and robust AI governance.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.722, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.2 — similarity 0.679, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 1.2 — similarity 0.678, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: volkswagen
Alleged developer: volkswagen
Alleged harmed parties: robotics-consultant

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/24

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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