AI Incidents
Real-world cases where AI systems caused harm, classified by risk domain and entity. Data sourced from 
AIID and classified by 
MIT AI Risk Initiative. CC BY-SA 4.0
1,751 incidents
Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims
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.
Uber Allegedly Wrongfully Accused Drivers of Fraud via Automated Systems
Uber was alleged in a lawsuit to have wrongfully accused its drivers in the UK and Portugal of fraudulent activity through automated systems, which resulted in their dismissal without a right to appeal.
Transgender Uber Drivers Mistakenly Kicked off App for Appearance Change during Gender Transitions
Transgender Uber drivers reported being automatically deactivated from the app due to Real-Time ID Check failing to account for difference in appearance of people undergoing gender transitions.
Facebook’s Automated Content Moderation Tool Flagged a Post Containing Parts of the Declaration of Independence as Hate Speech by Mistake
Facebook’s content moderation algorithm was acknowledged by the company to have flagged excerpts of the Declaration of Independence posted by a small newspaper in Texas as hate speech by mistake.
Atlantic City Casino-Hotels Allegedly Used Cendyn's Rainmaker AI to Coordinate and Inflate Room Rates
Atlantic City casino-hotels were alleged to have used Cendyn's Rainmaker AI-powered pricing platform to coordinate room rates using competitors' non-public pricing and occupancy data. Plaintiffs alleged that the hotels accepted Rainmaker's recommendations about 90% of the time, resulting in anti-competitively high room prices for guests.
Two Cruise Autonomous Vehicles Collided with Each Other in California
In San Francisco, an autonomous Cruise Chevrolet Bolt collided with another Cruise vehicle driven by a Cruise human employee, causing minor scuffs to the cars but no human injuries.
OpenAI's Training Data for LLMs Allegedly Comprised of Copyrighted Books
Two authors alleged in a class action lawsuit OpenAI infringed authors' copyrights by incorporating illegal "shadow libraries" offering copyrighted books without permission in the training data of its generative LLMs, such as ChatGPT.
Calgary Malls Reportedly Deployed Facial Recognition Without Customer Consent
Facial recognition (FRT) was reportedly deployed in some Calgary-area malls to approximate customer age and gender without explicit consent, which a privacy expert warned was a cause for concern.
Tesla on Autopilot Crashed into Parked Police Car in California
A Tesla sedan on Autopilot mode collided with a parked Laguna Beach Police Department car, resulting in minor injuries for its driver in Laguna Beach, California.
Tesla Autopilot Allegedly Malfunctioned in a Non-Fatal Collision in Greece
Autopilot was alleged by its Tesla Model 3 driver to have unexpectedly malfunctioned, veering right without warning and crashing into a road divider near Thessaloniki, Greece, which resulted in damages to its wheel and door but no injury to the driver.
Amazon Echo Mistakenly Recorded and Sent Private Conversation to Random Contact
Amazon Echo misinterpreted a background conversation between a husband and wife as instructions for recording a message and sending it to one of the husband's employees.
Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings
Amazon's retention of children' voice recordings indefinitely as the default setting reportedly to train Alexa's voice recognition for Alexa-enabled devices was charged by the FTC and DOJ to violate COPPA Rule.
Facebook’s Automated Removal of Content Featuring Nudity-Containing Artworks Denounced as Censorship
Facebook’s removal of posts featuring renowned artworks by many historical artists and their promotional content due to nudity via both automated and human-moderated means were condemned by critics, such as museums and tourism boards, as cultural censorship and prevention of artwork promotion.
Tesla Model X on Autopilot Missed Parked Vehicles and Pedestrians, Killing Motorcyclist in Japan
A Tesla Model X operated on Autopilot reportedly failed to recognize the parked motorcycles, pedestrians, and van in its path in Kanagawa, Japan, and ran over a motorcyclist who previously stopped when a member of his motorcyclist group was involved in an accident.
Content Using Bestiality Thumbnails Allegedly Evaded YouTube’s Thumbnail Monitoring System
YouTube’s thumbnail monitoring system was allegedly evaded by content farms such as ones in Cambodia who spike viewership and generate ad revenue using bestiality-themed thumbnails.