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Incident 1079: Purported AI-Manipulated Videos Depict Mauricio Macri Endorsing Manuel Adorni and Silvia Lospennato Withdrawing Before Buenos Aires Vote

“Libertarian accounts spread fake news and a fake video of Mauricio Macri just hours before the election.”Latest Incident Report

lanacion.com.ar2025-05-23

Accounts belonging to users linked to the Casa Rosada (the White House) launched a dirty campaign hours before the Buenos Aires City elections, using fake news and fake videos of Mauricio Macri and Silvia Lospennato, the candidate for Bueno…

Incident 1077: FBI Reports Ongoing Vishing and Smishing Campaign Allegedly Targeting Government Officials Using Purportedly AI-Generated Voices

“Alert Number: I-051525-PSA May 15, 2025 Senior US Officials Impersonated in Malicious Messaging Campaign”

ic3.gov2025-05-23

FBI is issuing this announcement to warn and provide mitigation tips to the public about an ongoing malicious text and voice messaging campaign. Since April 2025, malicious actors have impersonated senior US officials to target individuals,…

Incident 1078: Purported AI-Generated Images Reportedly Used in Sextortion Scheme Targeting Glasgow, Kentucky Teen Who Later Died by Suicide

“'The enemy has upgraded': Parents devastated after sextortion scheme leads to KY teen's death”

courier-journal.com2025-05-23

Warning: The following story contains descriptions of sensitive topics such as mental health and suicide, and may be triggering for some readers. If you are struggling, please contact a mental health professional or crisis line such as 988 …

Incident 1076: Purported Unauthorized Deepfakes of Norman Swan and Others Circulated in Online Supplement Campaigns

“Deepfake videos of Norman Swan are tricking people into buying unproven supplements at a risk to their own health”

abc.net.au2025-05-22

It started about 18 months ago. It was shocking then and is even more so now.

Listeners, viewers, friends, colleagues and family started to contact me, all with roughly the same question, then and now:

"Is this ad I've seen with you in it …

Incident 1075: New Orleans Police Reportedly Used Real-Time Facial Recognition Alerts Supplied by Project NOLA Despite Local Ordinance

“Police secretly monitored New Orleans with facial recognition cameras”

washingtonpost.com2025-05-19

NEW ORLEANS --- For two years, New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without a known precedent in any major American city that may violate munic…

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The AI Incident Database is dedicated to indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems. Like similar databases in aviation and computer security, the AI Incident Database aims to learn from experience so we can prevent or mitigate bad outcomes.

You are invited to submit incident reports, whereupon submissions will be indexed and made discoverable to the world. Artificial intelligence will only be a benefit to people and society if we collectively record and learn from its failings. (Learn More)

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By Simon Mylius

2025-04-14

Scalable AI Incident Classification This work is a collaboration with Simon Mylius, currently a Winter Fellow at the Centre for the Governan...

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