Apps and Summaries

Apps

• Discover. Instant search of incident text and metadata.
• Submit. Submit new incident reports to the AI Incident Database.
• Classifications Database view. View this page to see a full view of the classifications collection.
• Submitted. View for reviewing submissions to the AI Incident Database.

Summaries

• List of all incidents and their associated report titles. View this page to track when new incidents are added.
• Incident Image Gallery. A thumbnail gallery of every incident; hover for the title and click to open the incident.
• Spatial Visualization. Every incident plotted so that those with similar report texts fall closer together.
• Incidents over Time. View incident and report growth within the AI Incident Database.
• Reporting Lag. How long it takes for an incident to be reported: the gap between each incident date and the publication of its first report.
• Media Landscape. Which publications report AI incidents: every source domain sized by its number of reports, with a zoom into the authors behind each publication.
• Leaderboard. The top submitters, authors, and domains for reports within the database.
• Contributor Calendar. A day-by-day calendar of report submissions, by year and by submitter.
• Wordcount. A list of words in incident reports with their counts across the whole database.
• CSET Charts. Charts of the incidents classified under the CSET taxonomy.
• Flagged incidents. View this page to see incident reports that may have issues.

About Apps and Summaries

The AIID is built on a document database and a collection of serverless browser applications. This means the database is highly extensible, and the application layer can have an unlimited number of views into the database. The intention behind this architecture is to allow many communities to have different views into the database. You should not treat the AIID as a static data product, but instead an analytical framework from which we collectively produce the best intelligent systems while avoiding the worst outcomes they may potentially produce. Anyone can submit an app that interfaces with the incident data. Go to the GitHub Repo for more details

Apps vs Summaries

A "summary" in the AIID is something that generates descriptive statistics, visualizations, or other read-only views into the database. Summaries are expected to live inside the scripting environment you are presently reading. An "app" is something that may have write permissions on some portion of the database. Additionally, an app can maintain its own scripting environment isolated from the scripting environment you are presently reading.