AI Incidents

AI Chatbots Reportedly Inaccurately Conveyed Real-Time Political News

Jul 22, 2024

Over a week of back-to-back, significant breaking political news stories, including the Trump rally shooting and Biden’s campaign withdrawal...

False Election Data on Kamala Harris Reportedly Circulated via Grok AI Chatbot

Jul 21, 2024

After President Joe Biden stepped aside as a presidential candidate on July 21, 2024, the AI chatbot Grok on X reportedly falsely informed u...

Fatalities Reportedly Occur Despite VioGén Algorithm's Low or Negligible Risk Scores

Jul 18, 2024

The VioGén algorithm was designed to help Spanish police assess and prioritize the risk of repeat domestic violence incidents. However, its...

Gemini AI Allegedly Reads Google Drive Files Without Explicit User Consent

Jul 16, 2024

Kevin Bankston, a privacy activist, claims that Google's Gemini AI scans private Google Drive PDFs without explicit user consent. Bankston r...

Grok AI Model Reportedly Fails to Produce Reliable News in Wake of Trump Assassination Attempt

Jul 13, 2024

xAI's model Grok, intended to automate news delivery on the X platform, is reported to have struggled to provide accurate information during...

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) AI Systems Allegedly Discriminate Against Single Mothers

Jul 10, 2024

Researchers have argued that the Department for Work and Pensions' Universal Credit system disproportionately impacts single mothers. Automa...

AI-Generated Obituaries Are Reportedly Intensifying Grief for Bereaved Families

Jul 7, 2024

AI-generated obituaries on various websites are reported to have compounded the grief of bereaved families by spreading incorrect and unauth...

Deepfake Targets Olena Zelenska in Russian Disinformation Campaign

Jul 3, 2024

A deepfake video falsely suggesting that Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, purchased a luxury car, circulated...

Figma Disables AI Feature After Accusations of Copying Apple’s Weather App

Jul 2, 2024

Figma has temporarily disabled its AI design feature, "Make Design," after accusations of copying Apple’s Weather app. Andy Allen of NotBori...

OpenAI's ChatGPT Mac App Stored User Data in Unencrypted Text Files

Jul 1, 2024

OpenAI's ChatGPT macOS app stored user conversations in plain text. If accessed by a malicious actor, these conversations could have been ea...

British Female Politicians Victimized by Deepfake Pornography

Jul 1, 2024

British female politicians, including Angela Rayner, Gillian Keegan, Penny Mordaunt, Priti Patel, Stella Creasy, and Dehenna Davison, have b...

Scammers Use Deepfake of Hong Kong Entertainer Andy Lau to Steal NT$2.64 Million from Fan

Jun 27, 2024

Scammers defrauded a woman in New Taipei City of NT$2.64 million (US$81,116) by impersonating Hong Kong entertainer Andy Lau using a deepfak...

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

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