AI Incidents

Data source & citation

Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings

Google’s comment-ranking system will be a hit with the alt-right

Google's sentiment analysis API is just as biased as humans

Amazon Censors Gay Books

When It Comes to Gorillas, Google Photos Remains Blind

Computer, respond to this email: Introducing Smart Reply in Inbox by Gmail

Google Image Search Has A Gender Bias Problem

Discrimination in Online Ad Delivery

Tesla's Self-Driving Autopilot Was Turned On In Deadly California Crash

Tougher Turing Test Exposes Chatbots’ Stupidity

Firefighters attempt to contain Bel-Air blaze ahead of the strong winds expected Thursday night

Self-driving bus involved in crash less than two hours after Las Vegas launch

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.