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Incidents Harmed By

Incident 3082 Report
Atlas Robot Fell off Stage at Conference

2017-07-03

Boston Dynamics’s autonomous robot Atlas allegedly caught its foot on a stage light, resulting in a fall off the stage at the Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders conference.

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Incidents involved as Developer

Incident 1361 Report
Brand Safety Tech Firms Falsely Claimed Use of AI, Blocking Ads Using Simple Keyword Lists

2020-12-06

Brand safety tech firms falsely claimed use of AI, blocking ads using simple keyword lists.

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Incidents involved as Deployer

Incident 1072 Report
Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

2018-07-20

Various Chinese firms were revealed by patent applications to have developed facial recognition capable of detecting people by race, which critics feared would enable persecution and discrimination of Uyghur Muslims.

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Incident 2521 Report
Remotely Operated Taser-Armed Drones Proposed by Taser Manufacturer as Defense for School Shootings in the US

2022-06-01

Axon Enterprise considered development of remotely operated drones capable of tasering at a target a short distance away as a defense mechanism for mass shootings, despite its internal AI ethics board’s previous objection and condemnation as dangerous and fantastical.

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Incident 2871 Report
OpenAI’s GPT-3 Reported as Unviable in Medical Tasks by Healthcare Firm

2020-10-27

The French digital care company, Nabla, in researching GPT-3’s capabilities for medical documentation, diagnosis support, and treatment recommendation, found its inconsistency and lack of scientific and medical expertise unviable and risky in healthcare applications. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Huawei

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

    Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

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Megvii

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

    Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

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SenseTime

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

    Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

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Alibaba

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

    Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

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Baibu

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

    Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

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Entity

Uyghur people

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 107
    2 Reports

    Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

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brand safety tech firms

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 136
    1 Report

    Brand Safety Tech Firms Falsely Claimed Use of AI, Blocking Ads Using Simple Keyword Lists

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news sites

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 136
    1 Report

    Brand Safety Tech Firms Falsely Claimed Use of AI, Blocking Ads Using Simple Keyword Lists

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Axon Enterprise

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 252
    1 Report

    Remotely Operated Taser-Armed Drones Proposed by Taser Manufacturer as Defense for School Shootings in the US

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US schools

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 252
    1 Report

    Remotely Operated Taser-Armed Drones Proposed by Taser Manufacturer as Defense for School Shootings in the US

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Entity

US students

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 252
    1 Report

    Remotely Operated Taser-Armed Drones Proposed by Taser Manufacturer as Defense for School Shootings in the US

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Entity

OpenAI

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 287
    1 Report

    OpenAI’s GPT-3 Reported as Unviable in Medical Tasks by Healthcare Firm

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Nabla

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 287
    1 Report

    OpenAI’s GPT-3 Reported as Unviable in Medical Tasks by Healthcare Firm

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Nabla customers

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 287
    1 Report

    OpenAI’s GPT-3 Reported as Unviable in Medical Tasks by Healthcare Firm

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Boston Dynamics

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 308
    2 Reports

    Atlas Robot Fell off Stage at Conference

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