ShotSpotter Failed to Alert Authorities of Mass Shooting in North Carolina
Jan 1, 2023
ShotSpotter did not detect gunshots and alert Durham police of a drive-by shooting in Durham, North Carolina which left five people in hospi...
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Data source & citationTesla Driver Put Car on Autopilot Before Falling Asleep in Germany
Dec 28, 2022
A Tesla driver fell asleep on an Autobahn near Bamberg, Germany after activating his vehicle's Autopilot mode, which did not respond to atte...
Read moreAI-Powered VTuber and Virtual Streamer Made Toxic Remarks on Twitch
Dec 28, 2022
An LLM-powered VTuber and streamer on Twitch made controversial statements such as denying the Holocaust, saying women rights do not exist,...
Read moreChatGPT Abused to Develop Malicious Softwares
Dec 21, 2022
OpenAI's ChatGPT was reportedly abused by cyber criminals including ones with no or low levels of coding or development skills to develop ma...
Read moreSouthwest Airlines Crew Scheduling Solver Degenerates Flight Network
Dec 21, 2022
Southwest Airlines left passengers stranded for days throughout the flight network when Southwest crew scheduling software repeatedly failed...
Read moreLawyers Denied Entry to Performance Venue by Facial Recognition
Dec 19, 2022
Lawyers were barred from entry to Madison Square Garden after a facial recognition system matched them as employed by a law firm currently e...
Read moreFootballer's "X-Rated" Comment Created by Instagram's Mistranslation
Dec 19, 2022
Instagram's English translation of a footballer's comment on his wife's post in Spanish made the message seem "racy" and "X-rated," which so...
Read moreFacebook's Automated Moderation Allowed Ads Threatening Election Workers to be Posted
Dec 1, 2022
Facebook's automated moderating system failed to flag and allowed ads containing explicit violent language against election workers to be pu...
Read moreAI Video-Making Tool Abused to Deploy Pro-China News on Social Media
Dec 1, 2022
Synthesia's AI-generated video-making tool was reportedly used by Spamouflage to disseminate pro-China propaganda news on social media using...
Read moreStartup Misled Research Participants about GPT-3 Use in Mental Healthcare Support
Dec 1, 2022
OpenAI's GPT-3 was deployed by a mental health startup without ethical review to support peer-to-peer mental healthcare, and whose interacti...
Read moreFacebook's Job Ad Algorithm Allegedly Biased against Older and Female Workers
Dec 1, 2022
Facebook's algorithm was alleged in a complaint by Real Women in Trucking to have selectively shown job advertisements disproportionately ag...
Read moreThousands of Incorrect ChatGPT-Produced Answers Posted on Stack Overflow
Nov 30, 2022
Thousands of incorrect answers produced by OpenAI's ChatGPT were submitted to Stack Overflow, which swamped the site's volunteer-based quali...
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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.