Description: Pak 'n' Save's AI-based app, Savey Meal-bot, inadvertently suggested dangerous recipes, including one creating chlorine gas, when users entered non-food household items, raising safety and oversight concerns.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Pak 'n' Save developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Potential users of the Savey Meal-bot.
Incident Stats
CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
594
AI Tangible Harm Level Notes
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People could misuse the AI to get harmful recipes--but they would have to intentionally put inedible ingredients into the AI to get these harmful recipes. This is an example of AI misuse.
Notes (special interest intangible harm)
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People could misuse the AI to get harmful content (ie recipes)
Special Interest Intangible Harm
An assessment of whether a special interest intangible harm occurred. This assessment does not consider the context of the intangible harm, if an AI was involved, or if there is characterizable class or subgroup of harmed entities. It is also not assessing if an intangible harm occurred. It is only asking if a special interest intangible harm occurred.
yes
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
theguardian.com · 2023
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A New Zealand supermarket experimenting with using AI to generate meal plans has seen its app produce some unusual dishes – recommending customers recipes for deadly chlorine gas, “poison bread sandwiches” and mosquito-repellent roast potat…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.