Flagged Incident List
The following incident reports have been flagged by users and are pending review by editors.
Incident 5
- report_number
- 776
- title
- Adverse Events in Robotic Surgery: A Retrospective Study of 14 Years of FDA Data
- url
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280062076_Adverse_Events_in_Robotic_Surgery_A_Retrospective_Study_of_14_Years_of_FDA_Data
- authors
- Show More Authors
- date_downloaded
- 2019-04-13
- date_modified
- 2020-06-14
- date_published
- 2015-07-13
- date_submitted
- 2019-06-01
- description
- PDF | Background: Use of robotic systems for minimally invasive surgery has rapidly increased during the last decade. Understanding the causes of adverse events and their impact on patients in robot-assisted surgery will help improve systems and operational practices to avoid...
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- https://i1.rgstatic.net/publication/280062076_Adverse_Events_in_Robotic_Surgery_A_Retrospective_Study_of_14_Years_of_FDA_Data/links/55a9b76b08ae481aa7f98cdd/largepreview.png
- language
- en
- source_domain
- researchgate.net
- submitters
- Anonymous
Incident 10
- report_number
- 23
- title
- Is Starbucks shortchanging its baristas?
- url
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-starbucks-shortchanging-its-baristas/
- authors
- Aimee Picchi
- date_downloaded
- 2019-04-13
- date_modified
- 2020-06-14
- date_published
- 2015-09-24
- date_submitted
- 2019-06-01
- description
- Some employees at the coffee chain say it isn't living up to promises to improve the company's labor practices
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- image_url
- https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2015/03/17/01a38576-5108-40f7-8df8-5416164ed878/thumbnail/1200x630/ca8d35fe6bc065b5c9a747d92bc6d94c/154211248.jpg
- language
- en
- source_domain
- cbsnews.com
- submitters
- Catherine Olsson
Incident 16
- report_number
- 88
- title
- Why Google 'Thought' This Black Woman Was a Gorilla
- url
- https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/deep-problem-deep-learning
- authors
- Manoush ZomorodiJen PoyantJackie SnowAriana TobinMiranda Katz
- date_downloaded
- 2019-04-13
- date_modified
- 2020-06-14
- date_published
- 2015-09-30
- date_submitted
- 2019-06-01
- description
- This is a story about an incident that happened to 22-year-old web developer Jacky Alciné, the racist slur that caught him off-guard, and the machines behind it.
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- image_url
- https://media.wnyc.org/i/1000/530/c/80/1/jacky_tweet_centered.png
- language
- en
- source_domain
- wnycstudios.org
- submitters
- Anonymous
Incident 22
- report_number
- 233
- title
- City Council News: Motions Introduced to Curb Navigational Apps such as WAZE
- url
- http://belairassociation.org/blog/2018/4/13/city-council-news-motion-introduced-to-curb-navigational-apps-such-as-waze
- authors
- Bel Air Association
- date_downloaded
- 2019-04-13
- date_modified
- 2022-06-01
- date_published
- 2018-04-14
- date_submitted
- 2019-06-01
- description
- Another Motion to curb traffic navigation apps has been introduced out of concern traffic apps have been clogging side streets with drivers and sending them into evacuated areas during emergencies. Councilmember Paul Koretz (CD5) introduced a Motion immediately after December’s Skirball Fire that would direct the LAFD and Department of Transportation to report on efforts to coordinate with navigat...
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- http://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ec073207eaa0a2a5541c8f/t/5ad14ec42b6a28134f86f93f/1523666642027/WAZE+residential+traffic+impact.jpg?format=1500w
- language
- en
- source_domain
- belairassociation.org
- submitters
- Catherine Olsson
Incident 27
- report_number
- 345
- title
- Who is Stanislav Petrov, the man who literally saved the world from nuclear...
- url
- https://www.ajc.com/news/local/who-stanislav-petrov-the-man-who-literally-saved-the-world-from-nuclear-war/KvWRsAZaAlV97h9OORGh2N/
- authors
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- date_downloaded
- 2019-04-13
- date_modified
- 2020-06-14
- date_published
- 2017-05-20
- date_submitted
- 2019-06-01
- description
- Stanislav Petrov, 77, passed away on May 19, 2017. His death in his home in the Moscow suburbs was little noted at the time. Petrov, however, is one of a few humans who can say they literally saved the world. The veteran was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Union Air Defense Forces. On Sept. 26, 1983, the Soviets' early-warning nuclear missile detection system was triggered. The system said the United States had fired five ballistic missiles at the Soviet Union. Petrov was the duty officer at the co
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- image_url
- http://cdn7.wibbitz.com/images/b4725db849704789a4f3500ee0852cd1.jpg
- language
- en
- source_domain
- ajc.com
- submitters
- Roman Yampolskiy
Incident 28
- report_number
- 390
- title
- 2010 Flash Crash
- url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash
- authors
- Wikipedia Editors
- date_downloaded
- 2019-04-13
- date_modified
- 2020-06-14
- date_published
- 2010-05-08
- date_submitted
- 2019-06-01
- description
- The May 6, 2010, Flash Crash, also known as the Crash of 2:45, the 2010 Flash Crash or simply the Flash Crash, was a United States trillion-dollar stock market crash, which started at 2:32 p.m. EDT and lasted for approximately 36 minutes.
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- image_url
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Flashcrash-2010.png
- language
- en
- source_domain
- en.wikipedia.org
- submitters
- Anonymous
Incident 36
- report_number
- 582
- title
- Facial recognition catches China’s air con queen Dong Mingzhu jaywalking, but turns out to be ...
- url
- https://article.wn.com/view/2018/11/22/Facial_recognition_catches_China_s_air_con_queen_Dong_Mingzh/
- authors
- South China Morning Post
- date_downloaded
- 2019-04-13
- date_modified
- 2020-06-14
- date_published
- 2018-11-23
- date_submitted
- 2019-06-01
- description
- While China has moved ahead of the rest of the world in making facial recognition technology a part of people’s everyday life, there are systems in the country that need tweaking. Making a compelling case for change is the recent experience of Dong Mingzhu, chairwoman of China’s biggest maker of air conditioners Gree Electric Appliances, who found her face splashed on a huge screen erected along a street in the port city of Ningbo that displays images of people caught jaywalking by...
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- language
- en
- source_domain
- article.wn.com
- submitters
- Catherine Olsson
- report_number
- 569
- title
- 2018 in Review: 10 AI Failures
- url
- https://medium.com/syncedreview/2018-in-review-10-ai-failures-c18faadf5983
- authors
- Synced
- date_downloaded
- 2019-04-13
- date_modified
- 2020-06-14
- date_published
- 2018-12-11
- date_submitted
- 2019-06-01
- description
- Last December Synced compiled its first “Artificial Intelligence Failures” recap of AI gaffes from the previous year. AI has achieved remarkable progress, and many scientists dream of creating the…
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- image_url
- https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*QMHx9EO_wvsCuASmLoMRRA.png
- language
- en
- source_domain
- medium.com
- submitters
- Catherine Olsson
Incident 68
- report_number
- 1218
- title
- Security guard robot ends it all by throwing itself into a watery grave
- url
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/knightscope-k5-security-bot-drowned/
- authors
- Sebastian Anthony
- date_downloaded
- 2019-04-13
- date_modified
- 2020-06-14
- date_published
- 2017-07-18
- date_submitted
- 2019-06-01
- description
- Knightscope K5 security bot shows your job is probably safe from automation. For now.
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- image_url
- https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/security-bot-knightscope-water-e1500370047883-760x380.jpg
- language
- en
- source_domain
- arstechnica.com
- submitters
- Anonymous
- report_number
- 1233
- title
- The 'suicidal robot' that drowned in a fountain didn't kill itself after all
- url
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/suicidal-robot-did-not-kill-itself-fountain-accident-loose-brick-surface-a7866856.html
- authors
- Fiona Keating
- date_downloaded
- 2019-04-13
- date_modified
- 2020-06-14
- date_published
- 2017-07-18
- date_submitted
- 2019-06-01
- description
- A security robot called Steve did not commit suicide by falling into a fountain in Washington DC, but due to a tragic accident. After retrieving data from Steve the roboguard’s black box discovered that the accident was caused not by suicide but by skidding on a “loose brick surface”, according to the machine’s manufacturer, Knightscope. A technical error led to the K5 robot’s
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- image_url
- https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2017/07/18/11/robot.jpg
- language
- en
- source_domain
- independent.co.uk
- submitters
- Anonymous
- report_number
- 1238
- title
- Security Robot Commits Suicide In Fountain Because The World Is Terrible
- url
- https://www.iflscience.com/technology/security-robot-commits-suicide-in-fountain-because-the-world-is-terrible/
- authors
- IFL Science
- date_downloaded
- 2019-04-13
- date_modified
- 2020-06-14
- date_published
- 2017-07-18
- date_submitted
- 2019-06-01
- description
- The robot was a Knightscope K5, employed as a security robot at communications agency GMMB in Washington DC.
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- https://cdn.iflscience.com/images/8318c6d1-2b13-5f24-ae38-8ca29314bf42/default-1500372585-cover-image.jpg
- language
- en
- source_domain
- iflscience.com
- submitters
- Anonymous
Incident 124
- report_number
- 1522
- title
- These Algorithms Look at X-Rays-and Somehow Detect Your Race
- url
- https://www.wired.com/story/these-algorithms-look-x-rays-detect-your-race/
- authors
- Tom Simonite
- date_downloaded
- 2022-02-16
- date_modified
- 2022-02-16
- date_published
- 2021-08-05
- date_submitted
- 2022-02-16
- description
- Millions of dollars are being spent to develop artificial intelligence software that reads x-rays and other medical scans in hopes it can spot things doctors look for but sometimes miss, such as lung
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- image_url
- https://media.wired.com/photos/610af76cd901275be20b844a/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/Biz_xray_GettyImages-155601937.jpg
- language
- en
- source_domain
- wired.com
- submitters
- Anonymous
Incident 161
- report_number
- 1530
- title
- Discrimination through optimization: How Facebook's ad delivery can lead to skewed outcomes
- url
- https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.02095
- authors
- Muhammad AliPiotr SapiezynskiMiranda BogenAleksandra KorolovaAlan MisloveAaron Rieke
- date_downloaded
- 2022-02-16
- date_modified
- 2022-02-16
- date_published
- 2019-04-03
- date_submitted
- 2022-02-16
- description
- The enormous financial success of online advertising platforms is partially due to the precise targeting features they offer. Although researchers and journalists have found many ways that advertisers
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- https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1365352170267299840/IzvjKckL_400x400.jpg
- language
- en
- source_domain
- arxiv.org
- submitters
- Anonymous
Incident 188
- report_number
- 1605
- title
- Microsoft made an AI algorithm to predict pregnancies of specific preteen girls
- url
- https://stealthoptional.com/news/microsoft-ai-algorithm-predict-pregnancy/
- authors
- Lewis White
- date_downloaded
- 2022-08-11
- date_modified
- 2022-08-11
- date_published
- 2022-02-23
- date_submitted
- 2022-05-16
- description
- In one of the most WTF uses of artificial technology yet, Microsoft has created one of the most bizarre algorithms ever. In an effort to show off its advancements in AI, the computer software company
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- image_url
- https://cdn.realsport101.com/images/ncavvykf/stealth/c108113ded0638ce516d5aa5fcaded9dca5654ed-1500x1083.jpg
- language
- en
- source_domain
- stealthoptional.com
- submitters
- AIAAIC
Incident 231
- report_number
- 208
- title
- Two Years On, A Father Is Still Fighting Tesla Over Autopilot And His Son's Fatal Crash
- url
- https://jalopnik.com/two-years-on-a-father-is-still-fighting-tesla-over-aut-1823189786
- authors
- Ryan Felton
- date_downloaded
- 2022-08-23
- date_modified
- 2022-08-23
- date_published
- 2018-02-27
- date_submitted
- 2019-06-01
- description
- In early 2016, 48-year-old Gao Jubin had high hopes for the future, with plans to ease up on running a logistics company and eventually turn over control of the business to his son, Gao Yaning. But his plans were abruptly altered when Yaning died at the wheel of a Tesla Model S that crashed on a highway in China while the car—Jubin believes—was traveling in Autopilot, the name for Tesla’s suite of driving aids. Now, Jubin says, “Living is worse than death.”
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- https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_675,pg_1,q_80,w_1200/luzfmv1eyqwmsgd2d1a7.jpg
- language
- en
- source_domain
- jalopnik.com
- submitters
- Anonymous
Incident 505
- report_number
- 2864
- title
- Belgian man dies by suicide following exchanges with ChatGPT
- url
- https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/430098/belgian-man-commits-suicide-following-exchanges-with-chatgpt
- authors
- Lauren Walker
- date_downloaded
- 2023-03-28
- date_modified
- 2023-03-28
- date_published
- 2023-03-28
- date_submitted
- 2023-03-28
- description
- flag
- image_url
- https://api.brusselstimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/44a976ba-belgaimage-59160873-1024x683.jpg
- language
- en
- source_domain
- brusselstimes.com
- submitters
- Luna McNulty