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152
AI Tangible Harm Level Notes
Customers who purchased Pepper received a subpar product that did not meet their expectations or contractual terms. They, therefore incurred financial loss.
Special Interest Intangible Harm
no
Date of Incident Year
2014
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TOKYO—Having a robot read scripture to mourners seemed like a cost-effective idea to the people at Nissei Eco Co., a plastics manufacturer with a sideline in the funeral business.
The company hired child-sized robot Pepper, clothed it in th…
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Maybe the robots aren't coming for your jobs just yet.
Pepper, a humanoid robot from Japanese VC firm SoftBank, burst onto the scene in 2014 to considerable fanfare and media coverage. Since then, however, the bot has failed at many of the …
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