Incident 217: Robot at a Chinese Tech Fair Smashed a Glass Booth, Injuring a Visitor

Description: At the 18th China Hi-Tech Fair, a robot suddenly smashed through a glass booth and injured a visitor, after a staff member reportedly mistakenly pressed a button, causing it to reverse and accelerate.

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Alleged: Evolver developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed fair visitors.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
217
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2016-11-16
Editors
Khoa Lam

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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.