Facewatch Reported to Have Wrongfully Flagged Home Bargains Customer as Shoplifter
May 25, 2024
A facial-recognition software, Facewatch, employed by the British variety store Home Bargains, has reportedly misidentified a customer named...
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TAIM catalog Map Data source & citationReportedly Hacked AI-Powered Robot Vacuums Allegedly Used for Surveillance and Harassment
May 24, 2024
Hackers exploited a vulnerability in Ecovacs’ Deebot X2 robot vacuums, raising privacy concerns and potential risks of surveillance and hara...
Read moreStudy Highlights Persistent Hallucinations in Legal AI Systems
May 23, 2024
The Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI) at Stanford University released a study on legal AI systems, testing products by LexisNexis (Lexis+ AI...
Read moreVA Suicide Prevention Algorithm REACH VET Reportedly Prioritizes Men Over Women Veterans
May 23, 2024
An AI program, REACH VET, developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for suicide prevention, allegedly prioritizes white men while...
Read moreWiseTech Global CEO Richard White Reportedly Deepfaked in Multiple Attempts to Scam Staffers
May 21, 2024
WiseTech Global's CEO, Richard White, was targeted in multiple deepfake scam attempts where unknown actors used AI to create videos of him r...
Read moreScarlett Johansson Alleges OpenAI's Sky Imitates Her Voice Without Licensing
May 20, 2024
OpenAI debuted a voice assistant, 'Sky', that bears striking resemblance to Scarlett Johansson's voice. Despite her refusal to license her v...
Read moreMeta's AI Chatbots Are Reportedly Entering Online Support Communities Uninvited
May 20, 2024
Meta's AI chatbots are reportedly entering online support communities on Facebook without invitation, potentially disrupting human connectio...
Read moreAI Firm Lovo Accused of Illegally Replicating Voice Actors' Voices
May 16, 2024
Two voice actors, Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage, are suing the AI company Lovo for allegedly creating and using unauthorized clones of t...
Read moreClass Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Defects in Volkswagen's AI-Driven AEB Systems
May 15, 2024
A class action lawsuit against Volkswagen Group of America highlights alleged defects in the AI-driven Automated Emergency Braking (AEB) sys...
Read moreGoogle AI Reportedly Delivering Confidently Incorrect and Harmful Information
May 14, 2024
Google's AI search engine has reportedly been providing users with information that is confidently incorrect and potentially harmful. Exampl...
Read moreFacebook's Algorithm Reportedly Amplifies AI-Generated Content, Fueling Misleading Posts
May 14, 2024
Rising concern over AI-generated spam images on Facebook: The platform’s algorithm reportedly boosting these misleading posts, filling feeds...
Read moreGPT-4o's Chinese Tokens Reportedly Compromised by Spam and Pornography Due to Inadequate Filtering
May 14, 2024
OpenAI's GPT-4o experienced contamination in its Chinese token training data, as identified by Tianle Cai, a Ph.D. student at Princeton Univ...
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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.