Incident 241: Chess-Playing Robot Broke Child's Finger in Russia

Description: A chess robot at a tournament in Russia broke the finger of a child who reached onto the board before the robot had completed its move

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Alleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by Russian Chess Federation, which harmed child named Christopher.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
241
Report Count
5
Incident Date
2022-07-21
Editors
Sean McGregor

GMF Taxonomy Classifications

Taxonomy Details

Known AI Goal

Robotic Manipulation

Potential AI Technology

Convolutional Neural Network, Visual Object Detection

Known AI Technical Failure

Lack of Capability Control

Potential AI Technical Failure

Generalization Failure, Underspecification

Chess robot goes rogue, breaks seven-year-old player's finger
newsweek.com · 2022

A damaged ego is usually the worst injury a chess player can come out of a match with. But in Russia, a seven-year-old child playing with a robot was forced to interrupt the game when the machine suddenly snapped one his fingers, breaking i…

A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its human opponent
newsbeezer.com · 2022

According to the organizers of the tournament in the Russian capital, it was an “accidental” attack by the robot. A seven-year-old boy named Christopher, who, by the way, according to them, is among the top 30 chess players in Moscow under …

Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent
theguardian.com · 2022

Played by humans, chess is a game of strategic thinking, calm concentration and patient intellectual endeavour. Violence does not usually come into it. The same, it seems, cannot always be said of machines.

Last week, according to Russian m…

AI gone wrong? Chess robot breaks child's finger at Russia tournament
livemint.com · 2022

During a tournament in Moscow, a chess-playing robot fractured a 7-year-old boy's finger when the youngster attempted a quick move without giving the device enough time to finish its task. On July 19, at the Moscow Chess Open competition, t…

Chess-playing robot breaks finger of 7-year-old boy during match
washingtonpost.com · 2022

A chess-playing robot broke the finger of a 7-year-old boy who was competing against it during a recent tournament in Moscow.

According to officials from the Moscow Chess Federation, the child continued his participation in the event after …

Variants

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