Court 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...
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TAIM catalog Map Data source & citation Failure Files™Poachers 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...
Read moreAI mistakes referee’s bald head for football — hilarity ensued
Oct 24, 2020
A lighthearted incident occurred during a Scottish soccer match when an AI-enabled ball-tracking camera, utilized for live streaming the gam...
Read moreAI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection
Oct 22, 2020
AlgorithmWatch tested spam filtering algorithms across Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, GMX, and LaPoste. Their findings reportedly showed that Micros...
Read moreTesla Autopilot Mistakes Red Letters on Flag for Red Traffic Lights
Oct 22, 2020
A Tesla Model 3 mistook flags bearing 'COOP' written vertically as traffic lights, highlighting the need for trustworthy AI governance. Lea...
Read moreResearchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers
Oct 21, 2020
A groundbreaking study by the University of Toronto, Vector Institute, and MIT has revealed concerning evidence of gender, socioeconomic, an...
Read more#LekkiMassacre: Why Facebook labelled content from October 20 incident ‘false’
Oct 21, 2020
Facebook incorrectly labeled content pertaining to the Lekki Massacre incident between #EndSARS protestors and the Nigerian army as false. T...
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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.