Incident 35: Employee Automatically Terminated by Computer Program

Description: An employee was laid off, allegedly by an artificially intelligent personnel system, and blocked from access to the building and computer systems without their knowledge.

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Alleged: unknown developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Ibrahim Diallo.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
35
Report Count
20
Incident Date
2014-10-18
Editors
Sean McGregor

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Full Description

An employee was laid off and blocked from access to the building and computer systems at their employer without their knowledge. The employee, Ibrahim Diallo, attributes this error (the employee was brought back into the company once realized) to an artificially intelligent system deciding to fire him. It is also reported Diallo's manager had failed to renew Diallo's contract, which was terminated once a deadline to do so was missed.

Short Description

An employee was laid off, allegedly by an artificially intelligent personnel system, and blocked from access to the building and computer systems without their knowledge.

Severity

Negligible

Harm Type

Financial harm

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Named Entities

Ibrahim Diallo

Beginning Date

2018-07-01T07:00:00.000Z

Ending Date

2018-07-01T07:00:00.000Z

Near Miss

Harm caused

Intent

Unclear

Lives Lost

No

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.

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