LLMHigh
Glovo Driver in Italy Fired via Automated Email after Being Killed in Accident
- Occurred
- Oct 3, 2022
- Published
- Oct 13, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Delivery company Glovo's automated system sent an email terminating an employee for "non-compliance terms and conditions" after the employee was killed in a car accident while making a delivery on Glovo's behalf.
Developers
- Glovo
Deployers
- Glovo
Harmed parties
- Sebastian Galassi's family
- Sebastian Galassi
Classification
Category confidence: 70%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Automated system terminated employee post-mortem, indicating AI/automation failure in HR processes.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8