Voice deepfake targets bank in failed transfer scam
Aug 30, 2023
In spring 2023, Florida investor Clive Kabatznik fell victim to an advanced scam involving voice deepfake technology. An individual utilizin...
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TAIM catalog Map Data source & citation Failure Files™Reported Doctored Video of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu Claims Naira Will Be Replaced by U.S. Dollar
Aug 29, 2023
In late summer and early fall of 2023, a misleading video surfaced in Nigeria that falsely suggested President Bola Tinubu had announced pla...
Read moreDeepfake Voice Exploit Compromises Retool's Cloud Services
Aug 27, 2023
In August 2023, a hacker reportedly breached Retool, an IT company specializing in business software solutions. The attack impacted 27 cloud...
Read moreCampaign Featuring Purported AI-Generated Audio Attributed to Omar al-Bashir Spreads During Sudanese Conflict
Aug 20, 2023
In late August 2023, a TikTok channel named The Voice of Sudan disseminated dubious AI-generated audio claiming to be leaked recordings of f...
Read moreFlawed AI in Google Search Reportedly Misinforms about Geography
Aug 16, 2023
Google's search AI provided erroneous geographical data, stating that no African country begins with 'K', in response to various geography a...
Read moreAlleged Gaggle Surveillance Alert Reportedly Leads to Arrest and Detention of 13-Year-Old Student in Fairview, Tennessee
Aug 15, 2023
In August 2023, a student at Fairview Middle School, Tennessee was arrested, strip-searched, and detained overnight. The alleged offense? An...
Read moreCruise Robotaxi Initially Blamed for Ambulance Delay in Case Where Patient Later Died; Subsequent Reports Clear Cruise of Fault
Aug 14, 2023
Initial report indicated a Cruise robotaxi caused a San Francisco ambulance delay, transporting critically injured 69-year-old Sammy Davis w...
Read moreDriverless Cruise Cars Immobilized in San Francisco Traffic Jam
Aug 11, 2023
A fleet of Cruise's autonomous vehicles experienced a standstill on a congested San Francisco street, highlighting the importance of robust...
Read moreAI Meal Planner Suggests Hazardous Chlorine Gas Recipe
Aug 10, 2023
Pak 'n' Save's AI-powered app, Savey Meal-bot, unintentionally suggested hazardous recipes — even one for creating chlorine gas — when users...
Read moreAI-Generated Imagery and Multilingual Disinformation in Chinese Campaign Regarding Maui Wildfires
Aug 8, 2023
Chinese operatives exploited AI-generated imagery in a disinformation campaign about wildfires on Maui, propagating false narratives linking...
Read moreUniversity Student Reportedly Received Zero After Turnitin AI Detector Flagged Essay
Jul 24, 2023
Allegations arise over an incorrect identification by Turnitin's AI detector, suggesting a student's essay was generated by AI. The student...
Read moreCigna Algorithm PXDX Allegedly Rejected Thousands of Patient Claims En Masse in Breach of California Law
Jul 24, 2023
Cigna's health insurer faces a class-action lawsuit, accused of utilizing the PXDX algorithm to automatically reject over 300,000 patient c...
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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.