AI Incidents
Real-world cases where AI systems caused harm, classified by risk domain and entity. Data sourced from 
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287 incidents
#379 · AI Safety & Failures
Error in Pepsi's Number Generation System Led to Decades-Long Damages in the Philippines
Pepsi's number generation system determining daily winners in its Number Fever promotion in the Philippines mistakenly produced a number held by thousands which resulted in riots, deaths, conspiracy theories, and decades of lawsuits.
May 19922 reportspepsiAIUnintentionalExplainability
#27 · AI Safety & Failures
Nuclear False Alarm
An alert of five incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles was properly identified as a false-positive by the Soviet Union operator Stanislov Petrov.
Sep 198327 reportssoviet-unionAIUnintentionalExplainability