Incident 460: Cruise AV Ran Over Fire Hose in Active Fire Scene

Description: A Cruise AV ran over a fire hose that was being used in an active firefighting area.

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Alleged: Cruise developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed San Francisco firefighters and San Francisco Fire Department.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
460
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2022-06-12
Editors
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.