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Also, they're treating industrial robots as an AI:

https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/24/

> A 22-year-old worker at a Volkswagen plant was "crushed to death" by a robotic arm. The worker was inside the "safety cage", meant to separate humans from the machines, to install a piece of the robot when an arm struck him, pinning him to a metal plate. He was resuscitated, however he died later at the hospital. Volkswagen is citing human error as the cause of the accident.

https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/30/

> The goal of manufacturing 2,500 Tesla Model 3's per week was falling short by 500 cars/week, and employees had to be "borrowed" from Panasonic in a shared factory to help hand-assemble lithium batteries for Tesla. This output at assembly factories has led CEO/Founder Elon Musk to revisit the management and hiring strategies of the company.

That one also is more like a poor strategic choice/execution than an incident.



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