Calgary Malls Deployed Facial Recognition without Customer Consent
Jun 1, 2018
The unauthorized deployment of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) in some Calgary-area malls, estimated to approximate customer age and gen...
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TAIM catalog Map Data source & citationTesla on Autopilot Crashed into Parked Police Car in California
May 29, 2018
A Tesla vehicle operating in Autopilot mode collided with a stationary police car, causing minor injuries to the driver in Laguna Beach, Cal...
Read moreTesla Autopilot Allegedly Malfunctioned in a Non-Fatal Collision in Greece
May 26, 2018
The Tesla Model 3 driver in Greece reported an alleged malfunction of the Autopilot system, causing the vehicle to veer without warning and...
Read moreAmazon Echo Mistakenly Recorded and Sent Private Conversation to Random Contact
May 11, 2018
An Amazon Echo device inadvertently recorded a private conversation between a couple, interpreting the discussion as a command to record and...
Read moreAmazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings
May 10, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have accused Amazon of violating the Children's Online Privacy Protec...
Read moreFacebook’s Automated Removal of Content Featuring Nudity-Containing Artworks Denounced as Censorship
May 1, 2018
Facebook's removal of posts featuring historically significant artworks due to nudity, both by automated systems and human moderators, has s...
Read moreTesla Model X on Autopilot Missed Parked Vehicles and Pedestrians, Killing Motorcyclist in Japan
Apr 29, 2018
A Tesla Model X on Autopilot allegedly failed to detect parked motorcycles, pedestrians, and a van while driving in Kanagawa, Japan, causing...
Read moreContent Using Bestiality Thumbnails Allegedly Evaded YouTube’s Thumbnail Monitoring System
Apr 23, 2018
Allegations suggest that content farms, including ones in Cambodia, exploited loopholes in YouTube's thumbnail monitoring system to boost vi...
Read moreInvestigative Journalist Rana Ayyub Targeted by AI-Generated Deepfake Pornography
Apr 20, 2018
Investigative journalist Rana Ayyub fell victim to a malicious deepfake porn campaign, where artificial intelligence was used to create expl...
Read moreFacial Recognition Program in São Paulo Metro Stations Suspended for Illegal and Disproportionate Violation of Citizens’ Right to Privacy
Apr 12, 2018
A facial recognition program implemented by São Paulo Metro Stations was suspended following a court ruling, in response to concerns raised...
Read moreArgentinian City Government Deployed Teenage-Pregnancy Predictive Algorithm Using Invasive Demographic Data
Apr 11, 2018
In 2018, the Salta city government deployed a teenage-pregnancy predictive algorithm built by Microsoft, which raised concerns over its purp...
Read moreAll Image Captions Produced are Violent
Apr 2, 2018
Researchers at MIT Media Lab develop an AI model named Norman, trained on Reddit's darker content, demonstrating the need for trustworthy AI...
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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.
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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.