Gender Biases in Google Translate
Apr 13, 2017
In 2016, a Cornell University study shed light on the implicit gender bias in Google Translate's assignment of genders to occupations, which...
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TAIM catalog Map Data source & citation Failure Files™Pennsylvania County's Family Screening Tool Allegedly Exhibited Discriminatory Effects
Apr 10, 2017
The American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU) data analysis revealed potential discriminatory effects of Allegheny County's Family Screening Tool,...
Read moreIBM Watson for Oncology Criticized by Customers for Allegedly Unsafe and Inaccurate Cancer Treatment Recommendations
Apr 7, 2017
Reports from internal IBM Watson Health documents reveal criticisms by clients such as Florida's Jupiter Hospital and Memorial Sloan Ketteri...
Read moreNissan's "Automatic Emergency Braking" False Positives Posed Traffic Risks to Drivers
Apr 6, 2017
Nissan's Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) system has faced criticism due to a series of reports alleging false positives and unforeseen bra...
Read moreSocial Media's Automated Word-Flagging without Context Shifted Content Creators' Language Use
Mar 15, 2017
Social media platforms, such as TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitch, employ algorithms to flag certain words without considering context....
Read moreUber Locked Indian Drivers out of Accounts Allegedly Due to Facial Recognition Fails
Mar 13, 2017
Uber drivers in India claim they were locked out of their accounts due to facial recognition software, Real-Time ID Check, allegedly misiden...
Read moreMale College Freshman Allegedly Made Porn Deepfakes Using Female Friend's Face
Mar 1, 2017
A distressing incident involving deepfakes has been reported, where a college freshman allegedly used his female friend's face in pornograph...
Read moreHigh-Toxicity Assessed on Text Involving Women and Minority Groups
Feb 27, 2017
The Google Perspective API, a tool designed to assess toxicity in online text, has raised concerns due to its apparent bias towards non-whit...
Read moreWikipedia Vandalism Prevention Bot Loop
Feb 24, 2017
Clashes between Wikipedia bots designed to combat vandalism can lead to feedback loops, where they repeatedly undo each other's edits. This...
Read moreHonda's CMBS False Positives Allegedly Caused Accidents to Customers
Feb 1, 2017
Honda's Collision Mitigation Braking System (CMBS) has been under scrutiny due to allegations of frequent false obstacle detection, potentia...
Read moreByteDance Allegedly Trained "For You" Algorithm Using Content Scraped without Consent from Other Social Platforms
Jan 15, 2017
ByteDance allegedly scraped data (videos, usernames, profile pictures, descriptions) from Instagram, Snapchat, and other platforms without c...
Read moreRealPage's YieldStar Allegedly Facilitated Rent Price Coordination Among Canadian Landlords
Jan 1, 2017
RealPage’s YieldStar algorithm is under scrutiny for its potential role in facilitating rent price coordination among Canadian landlords. Th...
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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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