TuSimple Truck Steered into Interstate Freeway Divide
Apr 6, 2022
A TuSimple autonomous truck operating with backup drivers behind the wheel operated on an outdated command sequence and suddenly veered into...
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Data source & citationCruise Autonomous Car Blocked Fire Truck Responding to Emergency
Apr 5, 2022
A fire truck in San Francisco responding to a fire was blocked from passing a doubled-parked garbage truck by a self-driving Cruise car on t...
Read moreStarship Delivery Robot Ran into Problems Traversing Campus Terrains
Apr 3, 2022
A Starship autonomous delivery robot struggled to navigate campus terrains of UCLA, reportedly getting stuck into a planter and falling off...
Read moreDALL-E 2 Reported for Gender and Racially Biased Outputs
Apr 1, 2022
Developers of OpenAI's DALL-E 2 cited risks of the model, varying from misuse as disinformation and explicit content generation, to gender a...
Read moreCruise Autonomous Taxi Allegedly Bolted off from Police After Being Pulled over in San Francisco
Apr 1, 2022
An autonomous Chevy Bolt operated by Cruise was pulled over in San Francisco, and as the police attempted to engage with the car, it reporte...
Read moreEvolv AI Weapons Detection System Allegedly Misrepresents Accuracy, Leading to School Security Gaps
Mar 22, 2022
Evolv's AI-powered weapons scanners were advertised as superior to metal detectors but reportedly failed to detect actual weapons while gene...
Read moreThree Make-Up Artists Lost Jobs Following Black-Box Automated Decision by HireVue
Mar 17, 2022
Three make-up artists lost their positions following an algorithmically-assessed video interview by HireVue who reportedly failed to provide...
Read moreDeepfake Video of Ukrainian President Yielding to Russia Posted on Ukrainian Websites and Social Media
Mar 16, 2022
A quickly-debunked deepfaked video of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was posted on various Ukrainian websites and social media...
Read moreCruise Taxis' Sudden Braking Allegedly Put People at Risk
Mar 15, 2022
Cruise's autonomous taxis slowed suddenly, braked, and were hit from behind, allegedly becoming unexpected roadway obstacles and potentially...
Read moreA Road Engineer Killed Following a Collision Involving a Tesla on Autopilot
Mar 7, 2022
In Taiwan, a Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot mode whose driver did not pay attention to the road collided with a road repair truck; a road engine...
Read moreGenerative Models Reportedly Trained on Dataset Containing Private Medical Photos
Mar 3, 2022
Text-to-image models trained on the LAION-5B dataset, such as Stable Diffusion and Imagen, have been reported to reproduce or approximate im...
Read moreStarship’s Autonomous Food Delivery Robot Allegedly Stranded at Railroad Crossing in Oregon, Run over by Freight Train
Mar 2, 2022
A Starship food delivery robot deployed by Oregon State University reportedly failed to cross the railroad, becoming stranded, and ending up...
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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.