AI Incidents
Data source & citationA beauty contest was judged by AI and the robots didn't like dark skin
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Read more'Black teenagers' vs. 'white teenagers': Why Google's algorithm displays racist results
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Read moreRussian AI chatbot found supporting Stalin and violence two weeks after launch
Read moreSemantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases
Read moreData 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.