AI AgentMedium
Employee Automatically Terminated by Computer Program
- Occurred
- Oct 18, 2014
- Published
- Jun 21, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
An employee was laid off, allegedly by an artificially intelligent personnel system, and blocked from access to the building and computer systems without their knowledge.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Unknown
Harmed parties
- Ibrahim Diallo
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: AI system autonomously terminated employment and restricted access without human oversight.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8