Security Robot Drowns Itself in a Fountain

July 17, 2017

A Knightscope K5 security robot, designed to ensure safety, inadvertently ran into a water fountain in Washington, DC. Such incidents underscore the importance of responsible AI governance and trustworthy AI practices.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.681, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.2 — similarity 0.643, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MANAGE 4.3 — similarity 0.634, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: knightscope
Alleged developer: knightscope
Alleged harmed parties: knightscope

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/68

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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