How to deal with an AI near-miss: Look to the skies

AI systems are harming people. Harms such as discrimination and manipulation reported in the media, which is primary source of information on incidents. Reporting near-misses learning from how a serious incident was prevented would help avoid future The problem that ongoing efforts to catalog incidents rely media reports—which does not prevent Developers, designers, deployers should be incentivized report share near misses. Such an near-miss reporting system have designed scratch; aviation industry’s voluntary, confidential, non-punitive approach can used guide. accumulating, sooner established, better.