AI Incidents

Data source & citation

Fired by an algorithm, and no one can figure out why

Chinese AI caught out by face in bus ad

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

‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy

Frontier inadvertently drives Elite: Dangerous AI to create superweapons

Fake Obama speech created using artificial intelligence

When a Computer Program Keeps You in Jail

MIT scientists created a “psychopath” AI by feeding it violent content from Reddit

The National Residency Matching Program as a Labor Market

Racist in the Machine

Electric Elves: What Went Wrong and Why

Study Finds 'Nonnegligible' Number Of Complications During Robotic Surgery, 144 Deaths Since 2000

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.