AI Incidents

Deepfake Video of Ron DeSantis Dropping Out of 2024 Presidential Race Circulating

Sep 2, 2023

In early September 2023, a deepfake video created by C3PMeme circulated on social media, showing Ron DeSantis falsely claiming he was droppi...

Voice deepfake targets bank in failed transfer scam

Aug 30, 2023

In spring 2023, Florida investor Clive Kabatznik became the target of an advanced scam attempt involving a voice deepfake mimicking his own...

Deepfake Voice Exploit Compromises Retool's Cloud Services

Aug 27, 2023

In August 2023, a hacker reportedly was successful in breaching Retool, an IT company specializing in business software solutions, impacting...

Flawed AI in Google Search Reportedly Misinforms about Geography

Aug 16, 2023

Google's search AI erroneously claimed no African country begins with 'K', along with various other geography-and-letter-based questions, mi...

Cruise Robotaxi Initially Blamed for Ambulance Delay in Case Where Patient Later Died; Subsequent Reports Clear Cruise of Fault

Aug 14, 2023

In an initial report, a Cruise robotaxi was said to have delayed a San Francisco ambulance transporting Sammy Davis, a critically injured 69...

Driverless Cruise Cars Immobilized in San Francisco Traffic Jam

Aug 11, 2023

A fleet of Cruise's autonomous vehicles became unexpectedly immobilized on a busy San Francisco street, causing significant traffic disrupti...

AI Meal Planner Suggests Hazardous Chlorine Gas Recipe

Aug 10, 2023

Pak 'n' Save's AI-based app, Savey Meal-bot, inadvertently suggested dangerous recipes, including one creating chlorine gas, when users ente...

AI-Generated Imagery and Multilingual Disinformation in Chinese Campaign Regarding Maui Wildfires

Aug 8, 2023

In a disinformation campaign concerning wildfires across Maui, Chinese operatives utilized AI-generated imagery to enhance the credibility o...

Alleged False Accusation of AI-Generated Essay by Turnitin

Jul 24, 2023

A student was allegedly falsely accused of using AI to generate an essay assignment based on Turnitin's AI detector. The student, who claims...

Cigna Algorithm PXDX Allegedly Rejected Thousands of Patient Claims En Masse in Breach of California Law

Jul 24, 2023

Cigna health insurer faces a class-action lawsuit for allegedly using the PXDX ("procedure-to-diagnosis") algorithm to automatically reject...

AI Photo Filter Lightens Skin, Changes Eye Color in Student's 'Professional' Image

Jul 21, 2023

An AI application modified an MIT student's photo to appear 'professional' by lightening her skin and changing her eye color to blue, highli...

Never Back Down Super PAC for Ron DeSantis Uses AI Donald Trump Voice in Attack Ad Against Kim Reynolds

Jul 17, 2023

A pro-Ron DeSantis super PAC released an ad featuring an AI-generated voice of Donald Trump. The ad, created by Never Back Down, aimed to cr...

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.