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AI Incidents

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Was a flying killer robot used in Libya? Quite possibly

Recent reports have suggested the potential use of autonomous weapons in the conflict in Libya, raising concerns about accountability and hu...

Facebook to pay $550 million to settle privacy lawsuit over facial recognition tech

Facebook is reportedly set to pay a massive sum of $550 million as part of a settlement with Illinois users over privacy concerns related to...

An Epic Failure: Overstated AI Claims in Medicine

Recent incidents highlight the potential risks and pitfalls of overstating AI capabilities within the healthcare sector. These instances und...

A Health Care Algorithm Offered Less Care to Black Patients

An analysis of a health care algorithm used in the U.S revealed disparities in treatment, offering less care to black patients compared to w...

What are injury rates like at Amazon warehouses?

In this article, we delve into the injury rates at Amazon warehouses, a critical aspect of workplace safety. With the increasing integration...

Robot Collision Sets London Warehouse Ablaze, Delays Orders

An unexpected robot collision in a London warehouse sparked an inferno that delayed order deliveries. The incident serves as a stark reminde...

A robot collision sparked a fire at the UK's top online grocer

In an unprecedented event, a fire broke out at the UK's leading online grocery store, traced back to a collision between two robots controll...

Robots Collide, Causing Fire at Online-Only Grocer in UK

In an unexpected turn of events, a collision between two industrial robots at an online-only grocery store in the UK led to a fire. This inc...

Microsoft’s AI journalists confuse mixed-race Little Mix singers

In a recent incident, Microsoft's AI journalists misidentified the ethnicity of the mixed-race singers in the British girl group, Little Mix...

Backlash after Microsoft's robot editor confuses mixed-race Little Mix singers

A recent incident involving Microsoft's AI-powered editor has sparked controversy when it failed to correctly identify the mixed-race member...

Little Mix' Leigh-Anne Pinnock Gets Mistaken as Jade Thirlwall on MSN; Here's Why it Happened

In an instance highlighting the need for responsible AI, a popular news platform mistakenly identified Little Mix member Leigh-Anne Pinnock...

Tech Firms Move to Put Ethical Guard Rails Around AI

In a significant stride towards trustworthy AI, several tech companies are taking steps to instill ethical guard rails in their artificial i...

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.