AI Incidents

Data source & citation

Popularity Bias in Collaborative Filtering-Based Multimedia Recommender Systems

Rohingya refugees sue Facebook for $150 billion over Myanmar violence

Target didn’t figure out a teen girl was pregnant before her father did

Driver Fined After Traffic Camera Thinks Pedestrian’s Shirt Is a License Plate

The Pain Was Unbearable. So Why Did Doctors Turn Her Away?

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.

That smiling LinkedIn profile face might be a computer-generated fake

Here’s what happens when cops pull over a driverless Cruise vehicle

The disturbing YouTube videos that are tricking children

After A Wave Of Bad Press, This Controversial Software Company Is Making Changes

How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm

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

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.