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AI Incidents

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Chinese Face Recognition Mistakes Bus Ad For Jaywalker

An unfortunate incident occurred when a bus advertisement in China mistakenly displayed the image of a jaywalker, instead of the intended pe...

Chinese facial recognition system catches jaywalker, turns out to be a bus

In an unexpected turn of events, a Chinese facial recognition system recently identified a bus as a jaywalker. The incident highlights the i...

Facial recognition system in China mistakes bus ad for jaywalker

An incident in China highlights the potential pitfalls of facial recognition systems. A bus advertisement was mistakenly identified as a jay...

Jaywalking AI Mistakenly Shames Woman in Advertisement

In a recent advertisement, an AI-powered system mistakenly shamed a woman for jaywalking. This incident highlights the need for responsible...

Facial recognition snares China’s air con queen Dong Mingzhu for jaywalking, but it’s not what it seems

An unexpected encounter with a facial recognition system led to China's air conditioning queen, Dong Mingzhu, being accused of jaywalking. H...

Chinese facial recognition system mistakes a face on a bus for a jaywalker

In an instance highlighting the need for responsible AI governance, a Chinese facial recognition system incorrectly identified a bus passeng...

Chinese AI caught out by face in bus ad

Recent events in China revealed an unexpected face recognition incident involving an AI-powered bus ad. The AI mistakenly matched a passenge...

Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking

An AI-powered traffic camera in China mistakenly identified a bus advertisement featuring the CEO of Tencent as a jaywalker. The incident hi...

Facial recognition system in China mistakes celebrity's face on moving billboard for jaywalker - Asean+

An incident occurred where a Chinese facial recognition system misidentified the face of a celebrity on a moving billboard as a jaywalker, r...

AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking

An AI-powered bus advertisement inadvertently recognized a prominent executive as a jaywalker, leading to an embarrassing and unnecessary en...

Facial recognition system mistakes bus ad for jaywalker

A recent incident in the UK highlights the challenges and potential pitfalls of facial recognition systems. The AI-powered surveillance came...

Amazon scraps 'sexist AI' recruitment tool

A recent development at Amazon has seen the discarding of an AI tool utilized in their recruitment process, which was accused of bias agains...

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.