Incident List

This is a simple numeric listing of all incidents and their reports within the database. If you would like to explore the contents of the reports, you should work through the Discover app.

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Google’s YouTube Kids App Presents Inappropriate Content

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Warehouse robot ruptures can of bear spray and injures workers

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Crashes with Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS)

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Uber AV Killed Pedestrian in Arizona

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Collection of Robotic Surgery Malfunctions

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TayBot

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Northpointe Risk Models

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Amazon Censors Gay Books

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Images of Black People Labeled as Gorillas

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Inappropriate Gmail Smart Reply Suggestions

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Sexist and Racist Google Adsense Advertisements

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A Collection of Tesla Autopilot-Involved Crashes

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Tougher Turing Test Exposes Chatbots’ Stupidity (migrated to Issue)

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Waze Navigates Motorists into Wildfires

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Las Vegas Self-Driving Bus Involved in Accident

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Robot kills worker at German Volkswagen plant

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Hackers Break Apple Face ID

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Nuclear False Alarm

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2010 Market Flash Crash

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Poor Performance of Tesla Factory Robots

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Driverless Train in Delhi Crashes due to Braking Failure

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Identical Twins Can Open Apple FaceID Protected Devices

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Amazon Alexa Responding to Environmental Inputs

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Employee Automatically Terminated by Computer Program

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Picture of Woman on Side of Bus Shamed for Jaywalking

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Female Applicants Down-Ranked by Amazon Recruiting Tool

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Deepfake Obama Introduction of Deepfakes

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COMPAS Algorithm Performs Poorly in Crime Recidivism Prediction

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All Image Captions Produced are Violent

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Machine Personal Assistants Failed to Maintain Social Norms

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Defamation via AutoComplete

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Passport checker Detects Asian man's Eyes as Closed

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The DAO Hack

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Security Robot Rolls Over Child in Mall

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Tesla on AutoPilot Killed Driver in Crash in Florida while Watching Movie

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Biased Google Image Results

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Predictive Policing Biases of PredPol

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Alexa Plays Pornography Instead of Kids Song

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Australian Automated Debt Assessment System Issued False Notices to Thousands

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FaceApp Racial Filters

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Overfit Kaggle Models Discouraged Data Science Competitors

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Bad AI-Written Christmas Carols

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Google Photo Merge Decapitates Subject

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Reinforcement Learning Reward Functions in Video Games

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Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party

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Sleeping Driver on Tesla AutoPilot

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Security Robot Drowns Itself in a Fountain

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Google admits its self driving car got it wrong: Bus crash was caused by software

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Facebook translates 'good morning' into 'attack them', leading to arrest

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Google Instant's Allegedly 'Anti-Semitic' Results Lead To Lawsuit In France

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Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals

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Meet the Secret Algorithm That's Keeping Students Out of College

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Researchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers

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#LekkiMassacre: Why Facebook labelled content from October 20 incident ‘false’

Incident 83 CitationDiscover

Spam filters are efficient and uncontroversial. Until you look at them.

Incident 84 CitationDiscover

Tiny Changes Let False Claims About COVID-19, Voting Evade Facebook Fact Checks

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AI attempts to ease fear of robots, blurts out it can’t ‘avoid destroying humankind’

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UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women

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"Jewish Baby Strollers" Provided Anti-Semitic Google Images, Allegedly Resulting from Hate Speech Campaign

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The Christchurch shooter and YouTube’s radicalization trap

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Houston Schools Must Face Teacher Evaluation Lawsuit

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Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Red Letters on Flag for Red Traffic Lights

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N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash

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Major Universities Are Using Race as a “High Impact Predictor” of Student Success

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How French welfare services are creating ‘robo-debt’

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California's Algorithm Considered ZIP Codes in Vaccine Distribution, Allegedly Excluding Low-Income Neighborhoods and Communities of Color

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Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot Crashed into a Ford Explorer Pickup, Killing a Fifteen-Year-Old in California

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Korean Chatbot Luda Made Offensive Remarks towards Minority Groups

Incident 107 CitationDiscover

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

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PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused

Incident 110 CitationDiscover

Arkansas's Opaque Algorithm to Allocate Health Care Excessively Cut Down Hours for Beneficiaries

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Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

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Facebook's AI Put "Primates" Label on Video Featuring Black Men

Incident 114 CitationDiscover

Amazon's Rekognition Falsely Matched Members of Congress to Mugshots

Incident 116 CitationDiscover

Amazon's AI Cameras Incorrectly Penalized Delivery Drivers for Mistakes They Did Not Make

Incident 120 CitationDiscover

Philosophy AI Allegedly Used To Generate Mixture of Innocent and Harmful Reddit Posts

Incident 122 CitationDiscover

Facebook’s "Tag Suggestions" Allegedly Stored Biometric Data without User Consent

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Microsoft’s Algorithm Allegedly Selected Photo of the Wrong Mixed-Race Person Featured in a News Story

Incident 128 CitationDiscover

Tesla Sedan on Autopilot Reportedly Drove Over Dividing Curb in Washington, Resulting in Minor Vehicle Damage

Incident 129 CitationDiscover

Facebook's Automated Tools Failed to Adequately Remove Hate Speech, Violence, and Incitement

Incident 131 CitationDiscover

Proctoring Algorithm in Online California Bar Exam Flagged an Unusually High Number of Alleged Cheaters

Incident 132 CitationDiscover

TikTok’s Content Moderation Allegedly Failed to Adequately Take down Videos Promoting Eating Disorders

Incident 133 CitationDiscover

Online Trolls Allegedly Abused TikTok’s Automated Content Reporting System to Discriminate against Marginalized Creators

Incident 134 CitationDiscover

Robot in Chinese Shopping Mall Fell off the Escalator, Knocking down Passengers

Incident 136 CitationDiscover

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

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Israeli Tax Authority Employed Opaque Algorithm to Impose Fines, Reportedly Refusing to Provide an Explanation for Amount Calculation to a Farmer

Incident 139 CitationDiscover

Amazon’s Search and Recommendation Algorithms Found by Auditors to Have Boosted Products That Contained Vaccine Misinformation

Incident 140 CitationDiscover

ProctorU’s Identity Verification and Exam Monitoring Systems Provided Allegedly Discriminatory Experiences for BIPOC Students

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Facebook’s Advertisement Moderation System Routinely Misidentified Adaptive Fashion Products as Medical Equipment and Blocked Their Sellers

Incident 143 CitationDiscover

Facebook’s and Twitter's Automated Content Moderation Reportedly Failed to Effectively Enforce Violation Rules for Small Language Groups

Incident 147 CitationDiscover

Hong Kong Bank Manager Swindled by Fraudsters Using Deepfaked Voice of Company Director

Incident 148 CitationDiscover

Web Accessibility Vendors Allegedly Falsely Claimed to Provide Compliance Using AI

Incident 150 CitationDiscover

Swedish Contraceptive App, Natural Cycles, Allegedly Failed to Correctly Map Menstrual Cycle

Incident 151 CitationDiscover

California Regulator Suspended Pony.ai's Driverless Testing Permit Following a Non-Fatal Collision

Incident 152 CitationDiscover

SoftBank's Humanoid Robot, Pepper, Reportedly Frequently Made Errors, Prompting Dismissal

Incident 154 CitationDiscover

Justice Department’s Recidivism Risk Algorithm PATTERN Allegedly Caused Persistent Disparities Along Racial Lines

Incident 155 CitationDiscover

Google Maps Allegedly Directed Sierra Nevada Travelers to Dangerous Roads amid Winter Storm

Incident 156 CitationDiscover

Amazon Reportedly Sold Products and Recommended Frequently Bought Together Items That Aid Suicide Attempts

Incident 157 CitationDiscover

Amazon's Monitoring System Allegedly Pushed Delivery Drivers to Prioritize Speed over Safety, Leading to Crash

Incident 158 CitationDiscover

Facial Recognition in Remote Learning Software Reportedly Failed to Recognize a Black Student’s Face

Incident 159 CitationDiscover

Tesla Autopilot’s Lane Recognition Allegedly Vulnerable to Adversarial Attacks

Incident 162 CitationDiscover

ETS Used Allegedly Flawed Voice Recognition Evidence to Accuse and Assess Scale of Cheating, Causing Thousands to be Deported from the UK

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Facebook "News Feed" Allegedly Boosted Misinformation and Violating Content Following Use of MSI Metric

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Researchers' Homosexual-Men Detection Model Denounced as a Threat to LGBTQ People’s Safety and Privacy

Incident 168 CitationDiscover

Collaborative Filtering Prone to Popularity Bias, Resulting in Overrepresentation of Popular Items in the Recommendation Outputs

Incident 169 CitationDiscover

Facebook Allegedly Failed to Police Anti-Rohingya Hate Speech Content That Contributed to Violence in Myanmar

Incident 170 CitationDiscover

Target Suggested Maternity-Related Advertisements to a Teenage Girl's Home, Allegedly Correctly Predicting Her Pregnancy via Algorithm

Incident 171 CitationDiscover

Traffic Camera Misread Text on Pedestrian's Shirt as License Plate, Causing UK Officials to Issue Fine to an Unrelated Person

Incident 172 CitationDiscover

NarxCare’s Risk Score Model Allegedly Lacked Validation and Trained on Data with High Risk of Bias

Incident 173 CitationDiscover

AI Tools Failed to Sufficiently Predict COVID Patients, Some Potentially Harmful

Incident 176 CitationDiscover

Starship’s Autonomous Food Delivery Robot Allegedly Stranded at Railroad Crossing in Oregon, Run over by Freight Train

Incident 180 CitationDiscover

Algorithm Used by the Malaysian Judiciary Reportedly Recommended Unusually High Sentencing to a Drug Possession Case

Incident 181 CitationDiscover

BMW Sedan Made a Prohibited Left Turn, Colliding with a Cruise Autonomous Vehicle

Incident 191 CitationDiscover

Korean Internet Portal Giant Naver Manipulated Shopping and Video Search Algorithms to Favor In-House Services

Incident 193 CitationDiscover

Excessive Automated Monitoring Alerts Ignored by Staff, Resulting in Private Data Theft of Seventy Million Target Customers

Incident 194 CitationDiscover

Australian Telco’s Incident Management Bot Excessively Sent Technicians in the Field by Mistake, Allegedly Costing Millions