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Tesla Model X on Autopilot Crashed into California Highway Barrier, Killing Driver

Mar 23, 2018

An incident involving a Tesla Model X on autopilot resulted in a fatal crash into a California highway barrier. The vehicle, operating with...

Uber AV Killed Pedestrian in Arizona

Mar 18, 2018

An Uber autonomous vehicle (AV) operating in autonomous mode was involved in a fatal accident, striking and killing a pedestrian in Tempe,...

Man Arrested For Sock Theft by False Facial Match Despite Alibi

Feb 15, 2018

A man was unjustly arrested for the theft of socks from a TJ Maxx store due to an incorrect facial recognition match, despite having an alib...

Australian Telco’s Incident Management Bot Excessively Sent Technicians in the Field by Mistake, Allegedly Costing Millions

Feb 1, 2018

In early 2018, an Australian telecommunications company's incident management AI reportedly sent technicians in the field excessively, a sit...

Google Photo Merge Decapitates Subject

Jan 25, 2018

An incident occurred where Google Photos' AI Assistant created a hybrid photograph, merging three different pictures from a ski trip in a di...

Customer Service Robot Scares Away Customers

Jan 22, 2018

A case study involving a customer service robot, Fabio, developed by Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, highlights the importance of respon...

Tesla on Autopilot Collided with Parked Fire Truck on California Freeway

Jan 22, 2018

A Tesla Model S, utilizing Autopilot mode, collided with a stationary fire truck on a California freeway in Culver City. This non-fatal inci...

Gmail’s Inbox Sorting System Reportedly Reduced Visibility of Political Emails and Campaign Calls-to-Action

Jan 15, 2018

Google's Gmail inbox sorting algorithm has been reportedly affecting the visibility of political emails, potentially impacting call-to-actio...

Waze App Allegedly Caused Tourists’ Car to End up in Lake Champlain, Vermont

Jan 12, 2018

Tourists navigating through Vermont reportedly experienced a vehicle mishap when allegedly misdirected by the Waze app, leading their vehicl...

Bad AI-Written Christmas Carols

Dec 23, 2017

AI researcher Janelle Shane experimented with a neural network to generate unique Christmas carols by training it on 240 popular holiday tun...

Waze Navigates Motorists into Wildfires

Dec 6, 2017

The Google-owned directions app, Waze, inadvertently steered California motorists towards the dangerous Skirball wildfires during their evac...

Driverless Train in Delhi Crashes due to Braking Failure

Dec 3, 2017

A driverless metro train in Delhi, India experienced a catastrophic crash during a test run due to a failure in its braking system. This unf...

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.