Incident 194: Australian Telco’s Incident Management Bot Excessively Sent Technicians in the Field by Mistake, Allegedly Costing Millions

Description: In early 2018, an Australian telecommunications company’s incident management AI excessively deployed technicians into the field, and was allegedly unable to be stopped by the automation team.

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Alleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by , which harmed unnamed Australian telecommunications company.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
194
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2018-02-01
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

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Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.