Incident #364·AI Safety & Failures
Walmart's Bagging-Detection False Positives Exposed Workers to Health Risk
Explainability
Description
Walmart's theft-deterring bagging-detection system allegedly exposed workers to health risks during the coronavirus pandemic when its false positives prompted workers to unnecessarily step in to resolve the issue.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- walmart
Alleged Developers
- everseen
Harmed Parties
- walmart-employees
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Topics
Explainability
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