OOF-AII-353609

AI Meal Planner Suggests Hazardous Chlorine Gas Recipe

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.

Event date
2023-08-10
Country
New Zealand
Severity
Low
Evidence state
Single-source

Assessment status

Generated from available public incident evidence using OOF® governance methodology. It is not an official investigation, legal determination, regulatory finding, certification, or OOF® Approved Assessment.

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Assessment confidence dimensions

Source corroboration
Single-source

Measures source-group corroboration only; it does not establish factual truth.

Extraction completeness
High

Measures populated source fields after deterministic normalization; it does not measure correctness.

Methodological assignment confidence
Limited

Measures automated assignment support; substantive correctness requires authorized human review.

Known facts from the incident record

  • The incident record identifies the event date as 2023-08-10.
  • The incident record identifies the location as New Zealand.

Reported claims

  • 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.

Material unknowns

  • Independent corroboration is not established in the available incident record.

Primary governance problem

The incident appears to expose a governance problem involving safety. Available reporting supports preliminary methodological interpretation, not a finding of fault or non-compliance.

Architecture intelligence

AIG® - Governance Architecture

Primary architecture

The reported safety concern falls within the governed questions represented by AIG® - Governance Architecture.

Governance focus: How should safety be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?

Deeper methodology is withheld because the available evidence does not justify a Parent Standard or Core Module.

AGA™ — Accountability Governance Architecture

Contributing architecture

The reported oversight concern falls within the governed questions represented by AGA™ — Accountability Governance Architecture.

Governance focus: How should oversight be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?

Deeper methodology is withheld because the available evidence does not justify a Parent Standard or Core Module.

MGIA™ — Memory Governance Intelligence Architecture

Contributing architecture

The reported oversight concern falls within the governed questions represented by MGIA™ — Memory Governance Intelligence Architecture.

Governance focus: How should oversight be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?

Deeper methodology is withheld because the available evidence does not justify a Parent Standard or Core Module.

VFM® — Value Flow Mechanisms Architecture

Contributing architecture

The reported when concern falls within the governed questions represented by VFM® — Value Flow Mechanisms Architecture.

Governance focus: How should when be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?

Deeper methodology is withheld because the available evidence does not justify a Parent Standard or Core Module.

ASGA™ — Autonomous Systems Governance Architecture

Contributing architecture

The reported safety concern falls within the governed questions represented by ASGA™ — Autonomous Systems Governance Architecture.

Governance focus: How should safety be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?

Deeper methodology is withheld because the available evidence does not justify a Parent Standard or Core Module.

Preliminary governance questions

  • How should safety be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?
  • How should oversight be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?
  • How should when be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?
  • What operational authority and controls applied to Pak 'N' Save at the relevant time?
  • What evidence would establish how yes produced or enabled the reported outcome?

Evidence gaps and limitations

  • Only one independent source group is represented; corroboration is not established.
  • AI technology is not specified in the source record.

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