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By Omer Bilgin, Caio Vieira Machado

2026-09-29

As AI incidents become more frequent and severe, societies need reliable ways to identify harms early and keep them from becoming crises. Co...

By Marie Iradukunda

2026-08-28

The past few years have been marked by a series of AI safety and security incidents, ranging from multiple AI agents orchestrating severe cy...

By Daniel Atherton

2026-08-11

Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, Claude Monet, 1877 🗄 Patterns in This Batch Between the beginning of May and the end of Ju...

By Anastassia Kornilova, Sean McGregor, Daniel Atherton

2026-08-09

The societal and institutional value of incident data compounds when used to proactively prevent incident recurrence. Past incidents can be ...

By Sean McGregor

2026-06-23

Executive Summary After many conversations with those taking inspiration from and building on the AI Incident Database, we have notes to fac...

By Daniel Atherton

2026-05-05

Lisière de la forêt de Fontainebleau, Alfred Sisley, 1865 🗄 Trending in the AIID For this roundup, I'll be surveying the new incident IDs t...

By Daniel Atherton

2026-02-02

Le Front de l'Yser (Flandre), Georges Lebacq, 1917 🗄 Trending in the AIID Between the beginning of November 2025 and the end of January 2026...

By Sean McGregor

2026-01-25

Incidents and reports through time, AI Incident Database, 2026 Note: This post is one of several in a new series of posts that will highligh...

By Daniel Atherton

2025-11-08

At Templestowe, Arthur Streeton, 1889 Updated March 7th, 2026. 🗄 Trending in the AIID Across August, September, and October 2025, the AI Inc...

By Daniel Atherton

2025-08-02

Garden at Giverny, J.L. Breck, 1887 🗄 Trending in the AIID Across June and July 2025, the AI Incident Database added over sixty new incident...

By Daniel Atherton

2025-06-16

Our review newsletter recapping new incident IDs in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID Across April ...

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...

By Daniel Atherton

2025-04-03

Our review newsletter recapping new incident IDs in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID Throughout Fe...

By Aiman Muzaffar (MSBA aiman.muzaffar@gwu.edu), Akshay Thirumal Reddy (MSBA akshay.thirumalreddy@gwu.edu), and Daniel Bazargun (MSBA daniel.bazargun@gwu.edu)

2025-04-03

This blog post was contributed by Aiman Muzaffar, Akshay Thirumal Reddy, and Daniel Bazargun, students at The George Washington University S...

By Daniel Atherton

2025-02-03

Our review newsletter recapping new incident IDs in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID Around Novemb...

By Daniel Atherton

2024-12-07

Our review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID Between October ...

By Daniel Atherton

2024-10-05

Our review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID August and Septe...

By Kevin Paeth

2024-08-12

Answer the Questions: What happened and why?   Who: AI, human factors, safety, and ethics researchers  Where: Innovative Applications of Art...

By Daniel Atherton

2024-08-12

Our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID July sa...

By Sherry Chen, Steven Shen, and Shyam Sivasubramanian

2024-07-22

This blog post is a contributed by Sherry, Steven, an Shyam, students at The George Washington University School of Business who analyzed th...

By Daniel Atherton

2024-07-08

Our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID June wa...

By Daniel Atherton

2024-06-07

Our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID Through...

By Daniel Atherton

2024-05-07

Our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID This mo...

By Daniel Atherton

2024-04-05

Our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID This mo...

By Janet Schwartz

2024-03-07

Our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Featured in the AIID Did you...

By TheCollab Board of Directors

2024-02-20

The Digital Safety Research Institute (DSRI) of UL Research Institutes is partnering with the Responsible AI Collaborative (TheCollab) to ad...

By Janet Schwartz

2024-02-08

Read our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID Th...

By Daniel Atherton

2024-01-09

DISCLAIMER: This post is not legal advice or commentary and should not be construed as such. 2023 saw an increase in AI-generated child…...

By Scott Cambo

2023-07-19

Answer the Questions: What happened and why? Who: AI, human factors, safety, and ethics researchers Where: Innovative Applications of Artifi...

By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam

2023-07-18

Read our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID ...

By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam

2023-05-24

Read our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID I…...

By Daniel Atherton, Khoa Lam, Kate Perkins, & Janet Schwartz

2023-05-16

Want to make AI safer? Submit an incident report. Want to become an Editor? Learn more in the Editor’s Guide Want to follow incident…...

By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam

2023-04-14

Read our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID I…...

By Sean McGregor

2023-03-28

On February 16th, the New York Times published Kevin Roose's conversation with Microsoft's chatbot wherein the chatbot attempted to end Mr…...

By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam

2023-03-20

Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...

By Khoa Lam

2023-03-07

“ChatGPT, which has taken the internet by the storm recently, seems to be making it a lot easier for people to add to the chaos.” – Why is…...

By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam

2023-02-28

Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...

By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam

2023-01-16

Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...

By Janet Schwartz

2023-01-06

Each major feature of the AI Incident Database (AIID) is built as a series of incremental developments within the ‘Agile’ framework…...

By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam

2022-12-15

Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...

By Janet Schwartz

2022-12-15

Well known in the security industry, an Incident Response is a structured way for involved parties to learn from attacks and help the…...

By Sean McGregor, Kevin Paeth, Khoa Lam

2022-12-09

Two years after publicly launching the AI Incident Database (AIID) as a collection of harms or near harms produced by AI in the world, a…...

By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam

2022-11-14

Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...

By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam

2022-10-17

Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...

By Janet Schwartz

2022-09-30

Each major feature of the AI Incident Database (AIID) is built as a series of incremental developments within the "Agile" framework…...

By Janet Schwartz

2022-09-12

The Artificial Intelligence Incident Database (AIID) contains a wealth of historical instances of AI harms providing insights for the future…...

By Sean McGregor and Cesar Varela

2022-08-11

Research and development has a major unsolved problem throughout state of the art AI systems: making systems perform well beyond the…...

By Nicholas Broce, Nicholas Olson, and Jason Scott-Hakanson

2022-08-04

The AI Incident Database (AIID) launched publicly in November 2020 as a dashboard of AI harms realized in the real world. Inspired by…...

By Janet Schwartz

2022-07-20

We are excited to share with our community of AI safety-minded collaborators that the Responsible AI Collaborative (RAIC) reached full…...

By Responsible AI Collaborative

2022-03-29

The AI Incident Database launched publicly in November 2020 as a dashboard of AI harms realized in the real world. Inspired by similar…...

By Sean McGregor

2021-11-24

This blog post originally appeared as a guest post written for the Montreal AI Ethics Institute. Updated classifications are now available…...

By Sean McGregor

2021-07-08

In November the Partnership on AI AI Incident Database (AIID) publicly invited users to instantly search through thousands of pages of text…...