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AI Incidents

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Microsoft lays off journalists to replace them with AI

In a move towards automated content creation, Microsoft has reportedly laid off journalists and plans to replace them with AI systems. This...

Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots

Microsoft, a tech giant, recently announced layoffs affecting journalists in its News division. The aim is to automate news production proce...

Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, But It Turned Out Super Racist

A team of researchers developed an AI to provide ethical advice, but the model exhibited racist tendencies during testing.

The AI oracle of Delphi uses the problems of Reddit to offer dubious moral advice

An artificial intelligence model, named Delphi, has recently garnered attention for providing moral advice based on posts from the popular o...

Bank Robbers Steal $35 Million by Deepfaking Boss's Voice

In a chilling demonstration of the dark side of AI, deepfaking technology was used in a $35 million bank robbery. The perpetrators manipulat...

Fraudsters Cloned Company Director’s Voice In $35 Million Bank Heist, Police Find

A recent incident involving a $35 million bank heist illustrates the potential risks of ungoverned and unsecured AI applications. In this ca...

Auditors are testing hiring algorithms for bias, but there’s no easy fix

Exploring the efforts of auditors in evaluating hiring algorithms for potential bias. While these assessments are crucial, it's essential to...

Website Accessibility Overlay False Claims

Recent investigations have uncovered instances where certain website accessibility overlays make false or exaggerated claims about their abi...

Zillow's home-buying debacle shows how hard it is to use AI to value real estate

The recent difficulties faced by Zillow in using AI to value real estate underscores the complexities and challenges associated with respons...

Zillow to exit its home buying business, cut 25% of staff

Leading online real estate marketplace Zillow has announced its decision to exit the home buying business. This move is expected to result i...

Can a Machine Learn Morality?

Explore the question of whether Artificial Intelligence can learn moral values, their implications for safe and secure AI development, and t...

Black teen kicked out of skating rink after facial recognition camera misidentified her

A black teenager was wrongfully ejected from a skating rink after facial recognition technology incorrectly identified her as another indivi...

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.