Amazon Fresh Cameras Failed to Register Purchased Items
May 8, 2022
Reports suggest that the tracking cameras in Amazon Fresh's cashier-less stores have been experiencing issues, failing to register purchased...
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TAIM catalog Map Data source & citation Failure Files™Yahoo Boys Allegedly Employ Real-Time Deepfake Technology in Romance Scams
May 1, 2022
Scammers, often referred to as 'Yahoo Boys', are accused of employing real-time deepfake technology to manipulate identities during video ca...
Read moreTesla Owner Activated "Smart Summon" Feature, Causing a Collision with an Aircraft in a Washington Airport
Apr 21, 2022
A Tesla Model Y reportedly collided with an aircraft at a Washington airport, due to its owner activating the 'Smart Summon' feature. This i...
Read moreRobbers Accessed Drugged Gay Men's Bank Accounts Using Their Phones' Facial Recognition
Apr 20, 2022
Incidents in New York City reveal the vulnerability of facial recognition technology when used on compromised devices. Robbers accessed bank...
Read moreGoogle’s Assistive Writing Feature Provided Allegedly Unnecessary and Clumsy Suggestions
Apr 19, 2022
Google's 'inclusive language' feature, designed to promote diversity in writing, reportedly suggested alternatives for terms like 'landlord'...
Read moreNorthern Ireland MLA Cara Hunter Allegedly Targeted by Deepfake Pornography Ahead of May 2022 Assembly Election
Apr 15, 2022
In April 2022, ahead of the May 5, 2022 Northern Ireland Assembly election, Member of the Legislative Assembly Cara Hunter was reportedly ta...
Read moreAI-Generated Faces Used by Scammers to Pose as a Law Firm in Boston
Apr 13, 2022
Artificial Intelligence (AI) generative adversarial networks (GAN) were reportedly misused by scammers in association with a parked domain a...
Read moreTuSimple Truck Steered into Interstate Freeway Divide
Apr 6, 2022
An autonomous TuSimple truck, under the supervision of backup drivers, experienced a departure from the safe lane due to outdated command se...
Read moreCruise Autonomous Car Blocked Fire Truck Responding to Emergency
Apr 5, 2022
In San Francisco, a fire truck responding to an emergency was obstructed by a stationary autonomous Cruise vehicle that refused to reverse....
Read moreStarship Delivery Robot Ran into Problems Traversing Campus Terrains
Apr 3, 2022
An autonomous delivery robot from Starship encountered difficulties navigating the uneven terrains of UCLA, allegedly getting trapped in a p...
Read moreCruise Autonomous Taxi Allegedly Bolted off from Police After Being Pulled over in San Francisco
Apr 1, 2022
An autonomous vehicle, a Chevy Bolt operated by Cruise, was pulled over by the police in San Francisco. The vehicle reportedly evaded author...
Read moreDALL-E 2 Reported for Gender and Racially Biased Outputs
Apr 1, 2022
OpenAI's DALL-E 2, a powerful text-to-image model, has reportedly encountered concerns regarding gender and racial bias. This highlights the...
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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.