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Employee Automatically Terminated by Computer Program
An employee was laid off, allegedly by an artificially intelligent personnel system, and blocked from access to the building and computer systems without their knowledge.
- Date it happened
- 2014-10-18
- Organisation involved
- Unknown
- Product, system or model
- The employee management system that terminated Ibrahim Diallo's contract was built to complete a series of steps to handle ex-employees, including disabling their key card, notifying security, and dis
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