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A TuSimple autonomous truck operating with backup drivers behind the wheel operated on an outdated command sequence and suddenly veered into...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 moreExamining Gender and Racial Bias in DALL-E 2: A Case for Responsible AI Governance
Apr 1, 2022
The developers of OpenAI's DALL-E 2 raised concerns about the model, highlighting risks such as misuse for disinformation and explicit conte...
Read moreAutonomous Taxi Allegedly Evades Police: San Francisco Incident Highlights Importance of Safe and Secure AI
Apr 1, 2022
An autonomous Chevy Bolt, operated by Cruise, was pulled over in San Francisco. Upon police engagement, the vehicle reportedly bolted off, h...
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 moreUnfair Algorithmic Decision Costs Three Make-Up Artists Their Jobs: A Call for Trustworthy AI Governance
Mar 17, 2022
Three make-up artists faced employment loss due to an automated decision by HireVue, raising concerns about the need for safe and secure AI....
Read moreDeepfake Video Incident: Ukrainian President's Image Misused - Highlighting the Need for Responsible AI
Mar 16, 2022
A deepfaked video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was spread on Ukrainian websites and social media, falsely suggesting a surrend...
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 moreFatal Collision Involving Tesla on Autopilot Highlights Need for Responsible AI Governance
Mar 7, 2022
In a tragic incident in Taiwan, a Tesla Model 3 operating in Autopilot mode failed to adhere to road safety protocols, colliding with a repa...
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 moreFreight Train Collision: Unsafe Crossing Incident Involving Starship's Autonomous Food Delivery Robot
Mar 2, 2022
A Starship food delivery robot, deployed by Oregon State University, allegedly failed to safely cross a railroad track. The robot became str...
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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.