AutonomousCritical
Nuclear False Alarm
- Occurred
- Sep 26, 1983
- Published
- Sep 26, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
An alert of five incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles was properly identified as a false-positive by the Soviet Union operator Stanislov Petrov.
Developers
- Soviet Union
Deployers
- Soviet Union
Harmed parties
- All life on earth
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 95%
Rationale: Soviet nuclear false alarm involved automated early warning systems, preventing potential nuclear war.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8