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AI Incidents

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Predictive Policing Program by Florida Sheriff’s Office Allegedly Violated Residents’ Rights and Targeted Children of Vulnerable Groups

Sep 1, 2015

The Intelligence-Led Policing model implemented by the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office is being scrutinized for potential misuse. Critics clai...

Robot Destroyed while Hitchhiking through the United States

Aug 1, 2015

A non-actuated conversational robot, which previously traversed Canada by relying on human kindness for movement, met an unfortunate end sho...

Facebook's Friend Suggestion Feature Recommends Patients of Psychiatrist to Each Other

Jul 15, 2015

The 'People You May Know' feature on Facebook was reported by a psychiatrist for recommending her patients as friends, potentially breaching...

Collection of Robotic Surgery Malfunctions

Jul 13, 2015

Exploration of a database containing 8,061 robotic surgery malfunction reports, with 1,391 resulting in injury and 144 ending fatally betwee...

Worker killed by robot in welding accident at car parts factory in India

Jul 2, 2015

An unfortunate accident occurred at SKH Metals Factory in Manesar, India where a factory robot, during welding operations, pierced and fatal...

Australian Automated Debt Assessment System Issued False Notices to Thousands

Jul 1, 2015

The Australian Department of Human Services' (DHS) automated debt assessment system issued incorrect or false notices to over hundreds of th...

Google and Delphi Self-Driving Prototypes Allegedly Involved in Near-Miss on San Antonio Road, Palo Alto

Jun 23, 2015

A near-miss incident occurred between a Delphi self-driving Audi Q5 prototype and a Google self-driving Lexus RX400h on San Antonio Road, Pa...

Facebook’s "Tag Suggestions" Allegedly Stored Biometric Data without User Consent

Jun 14, 2015

The initial release of Facebook’s Tag Suggestions function reportedly stored biometric data, such as facial recognition information, without...

Images of Black People Labeled as Gorillas

Jun 3, 2015

Google Photos, a popular image processing software, inadvertently labeled a black couple as 'gorillas'. This unfortunate incident underscore...

Facebook's AI-Supported Moderation Failed to Classify Terrorist Content in East African Languages

Jun 1, 2015

Alarmingly, Facebook's AI system for content moderation in East African languages has been reportedly failing to identify terrorist content,...

Google’s YouTube Kids App Presents Inappropriate Content

May 19, 2015

The HISPI Project Cerebellum AI incident database highlights a recent incident involving YouTube's content filtering and recommendation algo...

Google’s Face Grouping Allegedly Collected and Analyzed Users’ Facial Structure without Consent, Violated BIPA

May 1, 2015

A class-action lawsuit was filed against Google, claiming they failed to comply with data transparency requirements regarding their face-gro...

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.