Incident #458·AI Safety & Failures
Robot Destroyed while Hitchhiking through the United States
Explainability
Description
A non-actuated conversational robot that previously asked people to move it across Canada was destroyed shortly after beginning its attempt to replicate the journey across the United States.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- frauke-zeller
- david-harris
Alleged Developers
- frauke-zeller
- david-harris
Harmed Parties
- frauke-zeller
- david-harris
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
HumanIntentionalPost-deployment
Topics
Explainability
Source
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