Alibaba Cloud Developed Facial Recognition to Profile Muslim Uyghur Minorities
Dec 16, 2020
Alibaba Cloud's cloud computing division unveiled a facial recognition system allegedly capable of identifying ethnicity, sparking concerns...
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TAIM catalog Map Data source & citation Failure Files™Online Trolls Allegedly Abused TikTok’s Automated Content Reporting System to Discriminate against Marginalized Creators
Dec 15, 2020
Online trolls reportedly exploited TikTok's automated content reporting system to discriminate against creators from marginalized communitie...
Read moreJapanese Porn Depixelated by Man using Deepfake
Dec 15, 2020
An individual reportedly breached Japan's obscenity law by employing deepfake technology to remove pixelation from explicit content featurin...
Read moreBrand Safety Tech Firms Falsely Claimed Use of AI, Blocking Ads Using Simple Keyword Lists
Dec 6, 2020
Brand safety tech firms were found to have falsely claimed the use of AI, instead relying on simple keyword lists to block ads. This inciden...
Read moreProctoring Algorithm in Online California Bar Exam Flagged an Unusually High Number of Alleged Cheaters
Dec 4, 2020
California bar exam proctoring algorithm flagged an unusual number of cheaters, allegedly three thousand applicants. Examinees were instruct...
Read moreCourt Rules Deliveroo Used 'Discriminatory' Algorithm
Nov 27, 2020
In December 2020, an Italian court found that Deliveroo’s 'reliability' algorithm unfairly penalized workers who legitimately cancelled shif...
Read morePoachers Evaded AI Cameras and Killed Four Rhinos
Nov 15, 2020
Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife's AI cameras failed to detect poachers, resulting in the loss of four rhinos. Emphasizing the importance of trustworth...
Read moreFacebook Mistakenly Blocked Small Business Ads
Nov 11, 2020
Facebook's AI inadvertently obstructed advertisements by small businesses, sparking concerns over increased reliance on algorithms and reduc...
Read moreYouTube Recommendation Reportedly Pushed Election Fraud Content to Skeptics Disproportionately
Nov 1, 2020
A recent report suggests that YouTube's recommendation system may have preferentially promoted content about the 2020 US Presidential Electi...
Read moreAutonomous Roborace Car Drove Directly into a Wall
Oct 29, 2020
An autonomous Roborace car experienced an unintentional collision during round one of Season Beta 1.1 race, underscoring the importance of r...
Read moreOpenAI’s GPT-3 Reported as Unviable in Medical Tasks by Healthcare Firm
Oct 27, 2020
French digital health firm Nabla evaluated GPT-3's performance in medical documentation, diagnosis support, and treatment recommendations. T...
Read moreMeta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI
Oct 25, 2020
Meta and Bloomberg's alleged use of the pirated dataset, Books3 (191,000 books), to train AI models, including LLaMA and BloombergGPT, has s...
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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.