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An 11-month-old child in Klagenfurt, Austria, was severely injured by a lawnmower robot while crawling in a garden. The child required a two-hour surgery and faces further operations. Medical professionals warn of the dangers posed by these AI systems, which often fail to detect obstacles like small children, leading to severe injuries.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The lawn-mowing robot is an AI system because it autonomously navigates and operates with sensor input to perform its task. The failure of the sensors to stop the robot when the baby was in its path constitutes a malfunction of the AI system. This malfunction directly caused severe injury to the baby, which is a harm to a person. Therefore, this event meets the definition of an AI Incident as the AI system's malfunction directly led to injury.[AI generated]