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AI Incidents

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Stable Diffusion Reportedly Exhibited Biases for Prompts Featuring Professions

Aug 22, 2022

AI model Stable Diffusion reportedly exhibited biases in responses to prompts related to professions, raising concerns about gender and cult...

Google’s Automated Child Abuse Detection Wrongfully Flagged a Parent’s Naked Photo of His Child

Aug 21, 2022

Google's automated child safety system, aiming to combat online child abuse, inadvertently flagged a parent's photo intended for a healthcar...

Stable Diffusion Abused by 4chan Users to Deepfake Celebrity Porn

Aug 17, 2022

An open-source image generation model, Stable Diffusion by Stability AI, was reportedly leaked on 4chan before its release date, raising con...

Tesla Autopilot Misidentified On-Road Horse-Drawn Carriage

Aug 15, 2022

Recently, a video surfaced showing Tesla's Autopilot system misinterpreting a horse-drawn carriage as various vehicles, including trucks, ca...

CFPB Reportedly Finds Hello Digit's Automated Savings Algorithm Caused Overdrafts and Orders Redress with $2.7M Penalty

Aug 10, 2022

The automated savings product of Hello Digit allegedly employed a proprietary algorithm that reportedly led to overdrafts and bank fees, con...

Meta’s BlenderBot 3 Chatbot Demo Made Offensive Antisemitic Comments

Aug 7, 2022

The latest conversational AI demo, BlenderBot 3 from Meta, has been found to make occasional offensive comments invoking Jewish stereotypes....

Facial Recognition Trial by UK Southern Co-op Alleged as Unlawful

Jul 26, 2022

The implementation of facial recognition technology by the UK Southern Co-op for crime prevention purposes was allegedly deemed 'unlawful' a...

Tesla Model 3 Sedan on Autopilot Killed Motorcyclist in a Rear-End Collision in Utah

Jul 24, 2022

An unfortunate incident occurred when a Tesla Model 3 operating in Autopilot mode collided with a Harley-Davidson motorcycle from behind on...

Users Reported Security Issues with Google Pixel 6a's Fingerprint Unlocking

Jul 22, 2022

The fingerprint recognition feature of the Google Pixel 6a has raised security concerns, as phones were found to be inadvertently unlocked b...

Chess-Playing Robot Broke Child's Finger in Russia

Jul 21, 2022

A chess-playing robot at a tournament in Russia malfunctioned, resulting in a child's finger injury after reaching onto the board before the...

Google Lens’s Camera-Based Translation Feature Provided an Offensive Mistranslation of a Book Title in Korean

Jul 18, 2022

Korea's first minister of culture's book title was inappropriately translated by Google Lens due to its training on internet communications...

Deepfakes Reportedly Deployed in Online Interviews for Remote Work Positions

Jun 28, 2022

The FBI's IC3 reported deepfake usage during online job interviews for remote positions, highlighting the need for safe and secure AI practi...

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.