Incidents
Documented failures, harms, and near-misses — each tied to a system, a developer, and a severity. A public ledger of where AI has gone wrong.
28 incidents
AIID-313
August 24, 2022
Tweet: @MarietjeSchaake
Unattributed · twitter.com
AIID-241
July 21, 2022
Chess robot goes rogue, breaks seven-year-old player's finger
Unattributed · newsweek.com
AIID-175
April 10, 2022
Driverless car starts to pull away after being stopped by police
Unattributed · news.sky.com
AIID-74
March 6, 2022
How Wrongful Arrests Based on AI Derailed 3 Men's Lives
Unattributed · wired.com
AIID-173
July 29, 2021
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.
Unattributed · technologyreview.com
AIID-152
July 12, 2021
Humanoid Robot Keeps Getting Fired From His Jobs
Unattributed · wsj.com
AIID-111
June 27, 2021
Fired by Bot at Amazon: ‘It’s You Against the Machine’
Unattributed · bloomberg.com
AIID-138
April 7, 2021
Students of color are getting flagged to their teachers because testing software can’t see them
Unattributed · theverge.com
AIID-106
January 12, 2021
South Korean AI chatbot pulled from Facebook after hate speech towards minorities
Unattributed · theguardian.com
AIID-133
December 14, 2020
TikTok Deleted My Account Because I’m a Latina Trans Woman
Unattributed · losangelesblade.com
AIID-135
December 13, 2020
The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm
Unattributed · insidehighered.com
AIID-6
November 13, 2020
Tay (bot)
Unattributed · en.wikipedia.org
AIID-36
November 5, 2018
Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking
Unattributed · boingboing.net
AIID-37
October 29, 2018
Is AI Sexist?
Unattributed · wellesley.edu
AIID-39
April 23, 2018
A.I. Video Depicting Barack Obama Shows Dangers of Fake News
Unattributed · blackenterprise.com
AIID-27
January 30, 2018
Because Stanislav Petrov reported a computer malfunction in 1983, we know him today as \The man who saved the world\
Unattributed · thevintagenews.com
AIID-1
November 9, 2017
YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children
Unattributed · theverge.com
AIID-167
October 8, 2017
Why Stanford Researchers Tried to Create a ‘Gaydar’ Machine
Unattributed · nytimes.com
AIID-13
August 17, 2017
Google's Anti-Bullying AI Mistakes Civility for Decency
Unattributed · motherboard.vice.com
AIID-68
July 17, 2017
Security robot 'drowns itself' in office fountain
Unattributed · telegraph.co.uk
AIID-60
April 24, 2017
That Viral 'FaceApp' Is Making Everyone Look Whiter
Unattributed · motherboard.vice.com
AIID-57
April 10, 2017
Centrelink robo-debt 'abject failure' and arguably unlawful, Victoria Legal Aid says
Unattributed · theguardian.com
AIID-34
January 5, 2017
TV news report prompts viewers' Amazon Echo devices to order unwanted dollhouses
Unattributed · foxnews.com
AIID-47
September 6, 2016
LinkedIn’s search algorithm apparently favored men until this week
Unattributed · qz.com
AIID-10
September 23, 2015
Is Starbucks shortchanging its baristas?
Unattributed · cbsnews.com
AIID-69
August 12, 2015
Robot Stabs A Man To Death At A Factory In Haryana's Manesar!
Unattributed · indiatimes.com
AIID-16
July 1, 2015
Google Photo App Labels Black Couple 'Gorillas'
Unattributed · news.sky.com
AIID-28
April 22, 2015
'Flash Crash' arrest shakes investors' confidence
Unattributed · usatoday.com