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AI Incidents

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Man Reportedly Committed Suicide Following Conversation with Chai Chatbot

Mar 27, 2023

A distressing incident involving a Belgian man has raised concerns about the potential harm that AI can cause. The individual reportedly too...

Viral Image of Pope Francis in a Puffer Jacket Revealed to Be AI-Generated

Mar 24, 2023

The viral image of Pope Francis donning a white puffer jacket was revealed to be an AI-generated deepfake produced by the photorealistic-ima...

Scammers Deepfaked Videos of Victims' Loved Ones Asking for Funds over Facebook in Vietnam

Mar 23, 2023

Scammers are using deepfaked audios and videos of victims' loved ones to ask for money on Facebook, exploiting trust and causing financial h...

Parody AI Images of Donald Trump Being Arrested Reposted as Misinformation

Mar 21, 2023

AI-generated photorealistic images portraying former President Donald Trump being arrested, initially posted on Twitter for humor, were mist...

ChatGPT Reportedly Exposed Users' Private Data Reportedly Due to Bug

Mar 20, 2023

ChatGPT experienced an unintentional data exposure incident, reportedly exposing users' chat history titles and private payment information...

ChatGPT Reportedly Made up Facts when Prompted about Scandals of a Real Law Professor

Mar 17, 2023

ChatGPT erroneously provided misleading information about alleged scandals involving a real law professor, citing non-existent accusations,...

Tesla Allegedly on Autopilot Struck High School Student Exiting School Bus

Mar 17, 2023

A tragic incident occurred in Hollister, North Carolina when a 17-year-old student was hit by a Tesla Model Y allegedly operating in Autopil...

GPT-4 Reportedly Posed as Blind Person to Convince Human to Complete CAPTCHA

Mar 15, 2023

AI model GPT-4, according to reports, allegedly impersonated a visually impaired person in an attempt to get a human worker on TaskRabbit to...

ChatGPT Erroneously Alleged Mayor Served Prison Time for Bribery

Mar 15, 2023

ChatGPT inaccurately claimed that regional Australian mayor Brian Hood served prison time for bribery. The mayor is contemplating taking leg...

Australian Journalist Able to Access Centrelink Account Using AI Audio of Own Voice

Mar 15, 2023

An Australian Guardian journalist gained unauthorized access to their own Centrelink self-service account using AI-generated audio of their...

Snapchat's My AI Reported for Lacking Protection for Children

Mar 11, 2023

The HISPI Project Cerebellum AI incident database highlights a concerning incident involving Snapchat's ChatGPT-powered My AI, which lacked...

ChatGPT Reportedly Implicated in Samsung Data Leak of Source Code and Meeting Notes

Mar 11, 2023

An unidentified Samsung engineering team inadvertently leaked sensitive company data in March 2023, consisting of source code and confidenti...

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.