Dutch Families Wrongfully Accused of Tax Fraud Due to Discriminatory Algorithm
Sep 1, 2018
An algorithm-based childcare benefits system in the Netherlands has incorrectly flagged thousands of families for potential fraud, with seco...
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TAIM catalog Map Data source & citationFacebook Allegedly Failed to Police Anti-Rohingya Hate Speech Content That Contributed to Violence in Myanmar
Aug 15, 2018
Facebook is under scrutiny for its alleged failure to remove violent and dehumanizing anti-Rohingya hate speech content from its platform, r...
Read moreHUD charges Facebook with enabling housing discrimination
Aug 13, 2018
In March 2019, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development accused Facebook of violating the Fair Housing Act by enabling real esta...
Read moreAmazon Allegedly Tweaked Search Algorithm to Boost Its Own Products
Aug 1, 2018
Allegations suggest Amazon manipulated product search algorithm to prioritize in-house products, potentially violating the company's custome...
Read moreAmazon's Rekognition Falsely Matched Members of Congress to Mugshots
Jul 26, 2018
The ACLU exposed a concerning incident where Amazon's Rekognition face comparison feature falsely matched members of Congress, particularly...
Read moreSwedish Contraceptive App, Natural Cycles, Allegedly Failed to Correctly Map Menstrual Cycle
Jul 21, 2018
The contraceptive app, Natural Cycles, reportedly experienced difficulties in accurately mapping menstrual cycles, potentially leading to un...
Read moreChinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims
Jul 20, 2018
Patent applications expose the development of race-based facial recognition technology by Chinese tech firms, potentially leading to persecu...
Read moreUber Allegedly Wrongfully Accused Drivers of Fraud via Automated Systems
Jul 7, 2018
A lawsuit alleges that ride-sharing giant, Uber, wrongfully accused its drivers in the UK and Portugal of fraud using automated systems. The...
Read moreTransgender Uber Drivers Mistakenly Kicked off App for Appearance Change during Gender Transitions
Jul 4, 2018
Transgender Uber drivers reported being deactivated from the app due to issues in the Real-Time ID Check system, which failed to account for...
Read moreFacebook’s Automated Content Moderation Tool Flagged a Post Containing Parts of the Declaration of Independence as Hate Speech by Mistake
Jul 2, 2018
Facebook admitted that their content moderation system incorrectly identified excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, posted by a Tex...
Read moreTwo Cruise Autonomous Vehicles Collided with Each Other in California
Jun 11, 2018
In San Francisco, an autonomous Cruise vehicle, a Chevrolet Bolt, collided with another Cruise vehicle driven by a human employee. The incid...
Read moreOpenAI's Training Data for LLMs Allegedly Comprised of Copyrighted Books
Jun 11, 2018
Two authors filed a class action lawsuit, claiming OpenAI violated copyrights by integrating 'shadow libraries', containing unauthorized cop...
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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.