Incident #445·AI Safety & Failures
Patriot Missile System Misclassified US Navy Aircraft, Killing Pilot Upon Approval to Fire
Explainability
Description
US Navy's Patriot missile system misidentified an American Navy F/A-18C Hornet as an enemy projectile, prompting an operator to fire two missiles at the aircraft, which killed the pilot.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- us-navy
Alleged Developers
- raytheon
- lockheed-martin
Harmed Parties
- us-navy
- nathan-white's-family
- nathan-white
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Topics
Explainability
Source
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