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AI Incidents

AI-Powered Customer Assistant Causes Unease Among Store Patrons

An AI robot was employed to enhance customer service, however, its behavior resulted in discomfort among shoppers, leading to its terminatio...

Unintended Consequences: The Importance of Trustworthy Reward Functions in AI

Exploring a recent AI incident involving faulty reward functions, demonstrating the critical role of safe and secure AI governance. This AI...

Self-Driving Car Violates Traffic Regulations: Uber Incident Highlights Need for Responsible AI Governance

The recent incident involving a self-driving Uber vehicle running a red light underscores the importance of trustworthy AI governance. This...

Unpatriotic AI Mishap in China: The Need for Responsible Governance in Chatbot AI

Recent incidents involving chatbots spreading unpatriotic messages highlight the need for safe, secure, and trustworthy AI governance. This...

Autopilot Malfunction: An Incident Highlighting the Need for Responsible AI Governance

An unsettling incident involving a Tesla vehicle on autopilot underscores the necessity of safe and secure AI. The driver, under the influen...

Unusual Incident: AI-Powered Robot Security Guard Falls into Water Fountain

An anomalous event occurred when an AI-powered robot security guard was found submerged in a water fountain. This incident, while unexpected...

AI-Controlled Robot Involved in Fatal Incident at Haryana's Manesar Factory: Highlighting the Need for Safe and Secure AI

This unfortunate incident underscores the importance of responsible AI governance. The fatal accident involving an AI-controlled robot at a...

Avoiding 'Snow Blindness' in Self-Driving Cars: The Importance of Trustworthy AI

Recent incident highlights the challenges autonomous vehicles face during adverse weather conditions, such as snow blindness, where driving...

Responsible AI in Action: Google's Autonomous Vehicle Accident: A Case for Safe and Secure AI

Explore the self-driving car incident involving Google, resulting from another vehicle jumping a red light. This AI incident maps to the Gov...

Palestinian Man's Arrest Highlights Importance of Safe and Secure AI: Facebook Incident Maps to Govern Function in Project Cerebellum TAIM

Facebook apologizes after a wrong translation incident leads to the arrest of a Palestinian man. This AI-related incident underscores the cr...

Exploring Bias in Augmented Reality: Pokemon Go Incident

This incident highlights the existence of bias within augmented reality applications, such as Pokemon Go. It underscores the need for respon...

Teachers to Launch Mass Appeals against Perceived Unfair AI Evaluations - Importance of Trustworthy AI

Exploring the impact of biased AI evaluations on educators, this article highlights the need for safe and secure AI governance. Ready to hel...

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.