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Nest Smoke Alarm Erroneously Stops Alarming
- Occurred
- Jan 21, 2014
- Published
- Jul 23, 2016
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In testing, Google Nest engineers demonstrated that the Nest Wave feature of their Nest Protect: Smoke + CO Alarm could inadvertently silence genuine alarms.
Developers
- Nest Labs
Deployers
- Nest Labs
Harmed parties
- Fire Victims
Classification
Category confidence: 80%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Product malfunction in safety device causing potential harm, but no specific AI failure category fits perfectly.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8