Description: The New York Police Department canceled a contract to use Boston Dynamics' robotic dog Spot following public backlash.
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View all entitiesAlleged: Boston Dynamics developed an AI system deployed by New York City Police Department, which harmed New York City low-income communities.
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98
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nytimes.com · 2021
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The Police Department will return the device earlier than planned after critics seized on it as a dystopian example of overly aggressive policing.
When the Police Department acquired a robotic dog last year, officials heralded the four-legg…
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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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