AI, algorithmic, and automation incidents
The incidents (definition) recorded on this page are listed by the year added to the AIAAIC Repository.
2024
Maori woman misidentified by Foodstuffs facial recognition system
Texas exam scoring engine criticised for dumbing down students
MEP files lawsuit to release iBorderCtrl lie detection system documents
Chatbots misinform citizens about European Parliament elections
UK housebuilding 'mutant algorithm' retracted after political storm
L’Observatoire de l’Europe uses AI to plagiarise Euronews content
Chinese AI campaign accuses US government of Kentucky train derailment cover-up
Meta AI image generator struggles to produce interracial couples
Amazon studios lawsuit alleges use of GenAI to clone actors voices
Chinese voice actor sues AI companies for using her voice without consent
AI company found guilty of violating Ultraman copyright in China
San Jose homeless detection AI sparks privacy, inequality fears
Al video depicts Indonesian presidential hopeful speaking Arabic
Biden 'robocall' advises voters skip New Hampshire primary election
Deepfake audio depicts London Mayor dismissing Remembrance Sunday
Deepfake news anchor accuses US of Bangladesh election interference
Israel facial recognition system misidentifies innocent Gazans
Researchers conclude ShotSpotter is 'too unreliable for routine use'
Russian TV deepfake blames Ukraine for Crocus City Hall attack
University of Michigan partner sells student data for AI training
Google fined for training Gemini on news content without consent
Scientific journals publish papers with AI-generated introductions
Meta sues predictive policing firm Voyager Labs for data scraping
Student reading aloud during remote exam is falsely accused of cheating
Uber, Amazon use AI to pay people different wages for the same work
UK sham marriage algorithm disproportionately singles out Albanians, Greeks
Robo review 'unfairly' targets Bulgarians, Poles for benefit fraud investigation
Kate Middleton suspected of using AI to manipulate family photo
Italy's privacy watchdog rules SARI Real-time facial recognition unlawful
Black man sues UNOS over kidney transplant algorithm racial bias
AI chatbots found to be covertly racist despite anti-racism training
Moscow arrests Navalny funeral attendees using facial recognition
Miami boys arrested for creating and sharing nude images of students
Beverly Hills students created, shared AI nude images of fellow students
Engineer warns Microsoft Copilot Designer creates violent, sexual images
Hate speech-spewing AI bots disrupt Council meeting call-ins
Flawed AI algorithms grade student essays in multiple US states
Microsoft Copilot generates fake Putin comments on Alexei Navalny death
AI models found to generate inaccurate and untrue election info
AI is used to dupe families into Willy Wonka Experience fiasco
Judge questions ShotSpotter reliability, overturns shooting conviction
Chicago watchdog concludes ShotSpotter 'rarely' finds gun crime
Serco ordered to halt using facial recognition to monitor employees
Snapchat algorithm recommends teen connects with sex offenders
University of Waterloo found covertly using facial recognition
Lyft background check fails to flag man convicted of aiding terrorism
Gig economy drivers rejected by faulty Checkr automated background checks
Mattel shelves Aristotle AI babyminder after privacy complaints
Scammers bypass WePay facial recognition security using gifs
UIUC dumps Proctorio over 'significant accessibility concerns'
Lawsuit claims Amazon Buy Box algorithm overcharges shoppers
Durham police rapped for 'crude' criminal reoffender profiling
Amazon France fined for excessive automated monitoring of workers
Amazon HR system automatically fires 'inefficient' warehouse workers
Teenager freezes to death after Google Maps provides wrong turn
US man dies driving off collapsed bridge while following Google Maps
Wacom AI-generated New Year promotion 'devalues' own customers
Study finds Amazon Rekognition suffers from racial and gender bias
Amazon employees, investors protest US govt Rekognition sales
Cadillac Fairview covertly uses facial recognition to monitor shoppers
Amazon patents 'voice-sniffing' personality profiling algorithm
Workers assist Cruise 'autonomous' robotaxis every 2.5-5 miles
Jordan Takaful poverty targeting algorithm unfairly excludes poor people
Samagra Vedika system pilot deprives Telengana citizens of rations
PimEyes includes 'sexually explicit' kids photos in search results
German privacy watchdog investigates PimEyes for privacy abuse
UK pressure group accuses PimEyes of surveillance, privacy abuse
PimEyes steals images of dead people to train facial recognition system
Teen distributes AI-generated nude pictures of Issaquah students
Deepfake Taylor Swift ads offer free Le Creuset cookware scam
AI generates visuals for Wizards of the Coast marketing promotion
Microsoft AI Image Creator generates violent political images
Google Bard makes factual error about the James Webb Space Telescope
Meta automated moderation wrongly removes Israel-Hamas videos
2023
NYC Dept of Education bans ChatGPT over student learning concerns
ChatGPT makes up research claiming guns are not harmful to kids
Kenyan workers paid under USD 2 an hour to de-toxify ChatGPT
Meta accused of 'systemically' censoring pro-Palestinian content
Asylum claim rejected by French authorities using Google Bard
The New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft over copyright abuse
Rite Aid facial recognition accuses innocent shoppers of theft
NaviHealth nH Predict used to deny Medicare Advantage benefits
Bing Chat falsely claims to have evidence tying journalist to murder
Microsoft Copilot provides wrong German, Swiss election information
Prisma Labs sued for collecting facial biometrics without consent
Lensa AI Magic Avatars generates nudes from childhood photos
Presto Automation uses humans to support 70% chatbot interactions
Bavaria police test Palantir AI analytics software using personal data
17 authors sue OpenAI for 'systematic mass-scale copyright infringement'
Israel automated 'target factory' kills Palestinian women, children
Generating an image consumes as much energy as charging a smartphone
Authors Mona Awad, Paul Tremblay sue OpenAI for copyright abuse
News publishers complain OpenAI uses articles to train ChatGPT
BERT consumes energy of transcontinental round-trip flight per person
Software engineers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for violating personal privacy
OpenAI sued for 'stealing' personal info to create ChatGPT, DALL-E
Sports Illustrated publishes articles by AI-generated writers
ChatGPT's ability to generate accurate computer code plummets
Brazilian judge publishes error-strewn AI-generated decision
Immunefi bans 'inaccurate' ChatGPT-generated bug bounty reports
Text-to-image AI models tricked into generating violent, nude images
Australian researchers use ChatGPT to assess grant applications
AIs can guess Reddit users' age, location, and what they earn
Chatbot guardrails bypassed using lengthy character suffixes
Gannett pauses 'abysmal' AI-generated high school sports recaps
AI website claims Benjamin Netanyahu’s psychiatrist committed suicide
Perth doctors warned for using ChatGPT to write patient medical records
TikTok risks pushing kids towards harmful mental health content
South Korean arrested for using AI to create sexual images of children
Family-Match adoption algorithm fails to live up to promises
Corruption doc incorporating Tom Cruise deepfake attacks IOC
Inaccurate auto translation denies Pashto-speaking refugee asylum
Carmel school students attack authorities with racist deepfake videos
AI image generators accept 85% of election manipulation prompts
ChatGPT writes code that makes databases leak sensitive info
Deepfake audio falsely depicts Barack Obama discussing conspiracy theory
AI campaign impersonates former South Sudan leader Omar al-Bashir
Defence lawyer using AI 'botches' criminal trial closing argument
Mike Huckabee books used to train language models without consent
ElevenLabs AI voice generator makes celebrity voices read offensive messages
Snapchat My AI requests to meet 13-year-old girl in local park
Instagram inserts ‘terrorist’ into Palestinians' biography translations
Deepfake audio recording falsely depicts British Opposition Leader abusing staff
Proctorio fails to recognise Vrije Universiteit Black student
Miami University student accuses Proctorio of privacy abuse, bias
Ugandan police accused of using facial recognition to stifle Museveni term protests
University of Miami accused of using facial recognition to track student protestors
Proctoring software companies accused of providing invasive, discriminatory software
YouTube videos target kids with AI false 'scientific' education content
Serbia Social Card excludes thousands of welfare beneficiaries
Israel AI robot machine guns fire tear gas at Palestinian protestors
Rikers Island prisoner risk classification system increases violence 50%
State Farm automated fraud detection discriminates against Black homeowners
'Racist' Uber Eats facial ID check gets Pa Edrissa Manjang fired
Amazon wrongly disables Echo account after hearing racial slur
MSN publishes 'useless' AI-generated Brandon Hunter obituary
Allocation algorithm wrongly places thousands of Italian teachers
Google Autocomplete associates Italian businessman with 'fraud'
Google Autocomplete, Related Search reveal rape victims' names
Human rights lawyer travel restricted by Chinese COVID-19 health app
Zhengzhou authorities turn bank protestors' health codes red
Hangzhou Safari Park mandatory facial recognition registration
Blenderbot 3 accuses Marietje Schaake of being a 'terrorist'
Google Autocomplete links health researcher to false blackmail accusations
Buenos Aires uses live facial recognition to identify child criminals
Deepfake 'Pan Africanists' support Burkina Faso military junta
Fake security analyst peddles Hunter Biden intelligence report
Stochastic Parrots study questions large language model size
Google Autocomplete says Rupert Murdoch, Jon Hamm are 'Jewish'
Google Autocomplete suggests Australian surgeon is 'bankrupt'
Google Autocomplete unfairly links businessman to Scientology
Google Autocomplete conflates Bettina Wulff with 'prostitute'
Google Autocomplete falsely associates Japanese man with crimes
Google Images links Australian music promoter to criminal underworld
Amazon Go fails to inform NYC customers about facial recognition
Temple of Heaven Park uses facial recognition to stop toilet paper theft
Computer glitch gives hundreds of Scottish offenders wrong risk level
Tesla Model X veers off highway into concrete barrier, killing driver
Tesla Model S collides with tractor-trailor truck, kills driver
Tesla Model 3 crashes into overturned truck on Taiwan highway
Sleeping driver speeds on highway with Autopilot switched on
China Pharmaceutical University student behavioural monitoring
Skelleftea municipality Anderstorp high school facial recognition
Hesse state Palantir predictive policing ruled 'unconstitutional'
XiaoBing (Xiaoice), BabyQ chatbots criticise Chinese government
2022
2021
Toyota Paralympics self-driving bus hits visually impaired athlete
Lemonade 'non-verbal cue' recognition insurance claim assessments
RCMP British Colombia facial recognition procurement opacity
Proctorio uses 'racist' algorithms to detect students' faces
Stanford facial recognition study reveals political orientation
Dahua Smart Police Heart of the City' real-time Uyghur warnings
Amazon, Waterstones algorithms promote COVID-19 vaccine misinformation