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AI Incidents

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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...

California Passes Warehouse Worker Bill, Taking Aim at Amazon

In a significant move towards safe and secure AI, California has passed a bill aimed at improving conditions for warehouse workers, particul...

Little Mix's Jade Thirlwall slams Microsoft after its AI confuses her with bandmate

Pop star Jade Thirlwall from Little Mix expressed disappointment after Microsoft's AI misidentified her as another band member in a promotio...

Facebook AI moderator confused videos of mass shootings and car washes

In a concerning incident, an AI moderator at Facebook failed to distinguish between videos of mass shootings and car washes. This failure po...

Stanford apologizes for coronavirus vaccine plan that left out many front-line doctors

Recently, Stanford University's coronavirus vaccine plan faced criticism due to its failure to consider the needs of front-line healthcare w...

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.