Waze Navigates Motorists into Wildfires

December 6, 2017

The Google-owned directions app, Waze, inadvertently steered California motorists towards the dangerous Skirball wildfires during their evacuation attempts in 2017. Promoting trustworthy AI and safe and secure AI practices, we at Project Cerebellum strive to prevent such incidents. Learn more about our efforts to Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage AI incidents like this through HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.664, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.657, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 1.1 — similarity 0.653, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: google
Alleged developer: google
Alleged harmed parties: motorists

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/22

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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