Incident #77·AI Safety & Failures
Knightscope's Park Patrol Robot Ignored Bystander Pressing Emergency Button to Alert Police about Fight
Explainability
Description
A Knightscope K5 autonomous "police" robot patrolling Huntington Park, California failed to respond to an onlooker who attempted to activate its emergency alert button when a nearby fight broke out.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- knightscope
Alleged Developers
- knightscope
Harmed Parties
- cogo-guebara
- unnamed-woman-injured-in-huntington-park-fight-near-knightscope-robot
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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