Cruise Taxis' Sudden Braking Allegedly Put People at Risk
Mar 15, 2022
An incident occurred where Cruise's autonomous taxis suddenly slowed, braked and were rear-ended due to their abrupt stop. This unexpected b...
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TAIM catalog Map Data source & citationA Road Engineer Killed Following a Collision Involving a Tesla on Autopilot
Mar 7, 2022
In Taiwan, a Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot mode was involved in a collision with a road repair truck. The driver failed to pay attention to the...
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 reportedly generated or mimicked images rese...
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, allegedly failed to cross the railroad safely, resulting in a collision...
Read moreTikTok's "For You" Algorithm Directed New Users towards Disinformation about the War in Ukraine
Mar 1, 2022
An examination by NewsGuard uncovered TikTok's 'For You' algorithm guiding new users towards disinformation about the Russia-Ukraine conflic...
Read moreCollaborative Filtering Prone to Popularity Bias, Resulting in Overrepresentation of Popular Items in the Recommendation Outputs
Mar 1, 2022
Understanding the risks posed by popularity bias in collaborative filtering algorithms, leading to an overrepresentation of popular items wi...
Read moreAI-Based Vehicle Speed Estimation App Denounced by UK Drivers as Surveillance Technology
Mar 1, 2022
Speedcam Anywhere, an app using AI for traffic violation documentation, has sparked concerns among UK drivers. The app's potential for surve...
Read moreFake LinkedIn Profiles Created Using GAN Photos
Feb 28, 2022
More than a thousand inauthentic LinkedIn profiles, suspected to be using Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) generated photos, were flagge...
Read moreAI-Generated Profiles Used in Disinformation Campaign Targeting Ukrainians
Feb 25, 2022
Security reports by Meta uncovered a disinformation campaign targeting Ukrainian social media users, employing fictitious personas with GAN-...
Read more'Pravda' Network, Successor to 'Portal Kombat,' Allegedly Seeding AI Models with Kremlin Disinformation
Feb 24, 2022
Exposed: Pravda, a Moscow-based network suspected of spreading Kremlin disinformation, allegedly infiltrated AI models. A NewsGuard audit re...
Read moreGoogle Search Returned Fewer Results for Abortion Services in Rural Areas
Feb 23, 2022
Google Search has faced accusations of showing fewer abortion clinics for searches originating from rural and impoverished areas, particular...
Read moreTeenager at Broward College Allegedly Wrongfully Accused of Cheating via Remote Proctoring
Feb 15, 2022
Broward College's implementation of a remote proctoring system, relying on its algorithm, allegedly led to an unjust accusation of academic...
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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.