AI Incident: Unauthorized Access Denial Causes Three-Week Office Exclusion

An AI system mistakenly prevented a software engineer from accessing his office for three weeks due to an unresolved security issue. This AI governance incident highlights the need for responsible AI and trustworthy AI models, ensuring safe and secure operations.

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MANAGE 2.4 — similarity 0.480, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 1.7 — similarity 0.477, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 6.2 — similarity 0.475, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/35

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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