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Incident 519: Starship Delivery Robot Ran into Problems Traversing Campus Terrains

Description: A Starship autonomous delivery robot struggled to navigate campus terrains of UCLA, reportedly getting stuck into a planter and falling off the stairs.

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Alleged: Starship Technologies developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Starship Technologies.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
519
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2022-04-03
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
CSETv1, MIT

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The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
 

519

Special Interest Intangible Harm

An assessment of whether a special interest intangible harm occurred. This assessment does not consider the context of the intangible harm, if an AI was involved, or if there is characterizable class or subgroup of harmed entities. It is also not assessing if an intangible harm occurred. It is only asking if a special interest intangible harm occurred.
 

no

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2022

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04

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03

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Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

7.3. Lack of capability or robustness

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. AI system safety, failures, and limitations

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

AI

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Unintentional

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Incident OccurrenceAnatomy of an AI Incident: The Starship Robotics Delivery Robot
Anatomy of an AI Incident: The Starship Robotics Delivery Robot

Anatomy of an AI Incident: The Starship Robotics Delivery Robot

seanbmcgregor.com

Anatomy of an AI Incident: The Starship Robotics Delivery Robot
seanbmcgregor.com · 2022

During a recent stop over at UCLA, I opportunistically recorded a video of a delivery robot that almost immediately got into trouble. What follows is an introduction to the design elements of delivery robots as shown by a series of unfortun…

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