Facial Recognition Trial by UK Southern Co-op Alleged as Unlawful
Jul 26, 2022
Southern Co-op's use of facial recognition reportedly to curb violent crime in UK supermarkets was alleged by civil society and privacy grou...
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Data source & citationTesla Model 3 Sedan on Autopilot Killed Motorcyclist in a Rear-End Collision in Utah
Jul 24, 2022
A Tesla Model 3 operating on Autopilot mode slammed into the back of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle on an interstate in Utah, throwing the rid...
Read moreUsers Reported Security Issues with Google Pixel 6a's Fingerprint Unlocking
Jul 22, 2022
Google Pixel 6a's fingerprint recognition feature was reported by users for security issues, in which phones were mistakenly unlocked by unr...
Read moreChess-Playing Robot Broke Child's Finger in Russia
Jul 21, 2022
A chess robot at a tournament in Russia broke the finger of a child who reached onto the board before the robot had completed its move
Read moreGoogle Lens’s Camera-Based Translation Feature Provided an Offensive Mistranslation of a Book Title in Korean
Jul 18, 2022
A book title by Korea’s first minister of culture was mistranslated into an offensive phrase by Google Lens’s camera-based translation featu...
Read moreDeepfakes Reportedly Deployed in Online Interviews for Remote Work Positions
Jun 28, 2022
Voice and video deepfakes were reported by FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in complaint reports to have been deployed during onlin...
Read moreCruise AV Ran Over Fire Hose in Active Fire Scene
Jun 12, 2022
A Cruise AV ran over a fire hose that was being used in an active firefighting area.
Read moreDALL-E Mini Reportedly Reinforced or Exacerbated Societal Biases in Its Outputs as Gender and Racial Stereotypes
Jun 11, 2022
Publicly deployed open-source model DALL-E Mini was acknowledged by its developers and found by its users to have produced images which rein...
Read moreCruise’s Self-Driving Car Involved in a Multiple-Injury Collision at an San Francisco Intersection
Jun 3, 2022
A Cruise autonomous vehicle was involved in a crash at an intersection in San Francisco when making a left turn in front of a Toyota Prius t...
Read moreFalse Negatives for Water Quality-Associated Beach Closures
Jun 3, 2022
Toronto’s use of AI predictive modeling (AIPM) which had replaced existing methodology as the only determiner of beach water quality raised...
Read moreYouTuber Built, Made Publicly Available, and Released Model Trained on Toxic 4chan Posts as Prank
Jun 3, 2022
A YouTuber built GPT-4chan, a model based on OpenAI’s GPT-J and trained on posts containing racism, misogyny, and antisemitism collected fro...
Read moreRemotely Operated Taser-Armed Drones Proposed by Taser Manufacturer as Defense for School Shootings in the US
Jun 1, 2022
Axon Enterprise considered development of remotely operated drones capable of tasering at a target a short distance away as a defense mechan...
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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.
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