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Apple Devices Mistook Skiing Activities, Dialed False Distress Emergency Calls
- Occurred
- Nov 15, 2022
- Published
- Jan 14, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Apple devices of skiers and snowboarders reportedly misclassified winter activities as accidents, which resulted in numerous false inadvertent distress calls to 911 dispatchers.
Developers
- Apple
Deployers
- Apple
Harmed parties
- Apple Watch users doing winter activities
- ski patrols
- emergency dispatchers
Classification
Category confidence: 70%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: AI misclassification caused false emergency calls, a notable failure with limited harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8