AI Incident Database
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Every incident record (metadata only) from the weekly snapshot of 2026-09-07. Filter, then export the selection with its licence attached; each row links to the full record and its reports.
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Facebook Mistakenly Blocked Small Business Ads AIID ↗
Facebook’s AI mistakenly blocked advertisements by small and struggling businesses, after the company allegedly leaned more on algorithms to monitor ads on the platform with little review from human moderators.
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YouTube Recommendation Reportedly Pushed Election Fraud Content to Skeptics Disproportionately AIID ↗
YouTube's recommendation algorithm allegedly pushed 2020's US Presidential Election fraud content to users most skeptical of the election's legitimacy disproportionately compared to least skeptical users.
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Autonomous Roborace Car Drove Directly into a Wall AIID ↗
An autonomous Roborace car drove itself into a wall in round one of the Season Beta 1.1 race.
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OpenAI’s GPT-3 Reported as Unviable in Medical Tasks by Healthcare Firm AIID ↗
The French digital care company, Nabla, in researching GPT-3’s capabilities for medical documentation, diagnosis support, and treatment recommendation, found its inconsistency and lack of scientific and medical expertise unviable and risky in healthcare applications. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.
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Meta Allegedly Used Books3, a Dataset of 191,000 Pirated Books, to Train LLaMA AI AIID ↗
Meta and Bloomberg allegedly used Books3, a dataset containing 191,000 pirated books, to train their AI models, including LLaMA and BloombergGPT, without author consent. Lawsuits from authors such as Sarah Silverman and Michael Chabon claim this constitutes copyright infringement. Books3 includes works from major publishers like Penguin Random House and HarperCollins. Meta argues its AI outputs are not "substantially similar" to the original books, but legal challenges continue.
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AI mistakes referee’s bald head for football — hilarity ensued AIID ↗
In a Scottish soccer match the AI-enabled ball-tracking camera used to livestream the game repeatedly tracked an official’s bald head as though it were the soccer ball.
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Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Red Letters on Flag for Red Traffic Lights AIID ↗
A Tesla Model 3 misidentified flags with "COOP" written vertically on them as traffic lights.
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AI Spam Filters Allegedly Block Legitimate Emails Based on Biased Keyword Detection AIID ↗
AlgorithmWatch tested spam filtering algorithms across Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, GMX, and LaPoste. Their findings reportedly showed that Microsoft Outlook’s spam filter flagged emails based on specific keywords that led to racial and content-based biases blocking legitimate communications. Emails mentioning Nigeria or containing certain financial and sexual health terms were found to be disproportionately marked as spam.
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#LekkiMassacre: Why Facebook labelled content from October 20 incident ‘false’ AIID ↗
Facebook incorrectly labels content relating to an incident between #EndSARS protestors and the Nigerian army as misinformation.
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Researchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers AIID ↗
A study by the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and MIT showed the input databases that trained AI systems used to classify chest X-rays led the systems to show gender, socioeconomic, and racial biases.
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Tesla Disabled “Rolling Stop” Functionality Associated with the “Aggressive” Driving Mode AIID ↗
The “rolling stop” functionality within the “Aggressive” Full Self Driving (FSD) profile that was released via a Tesla firmware update was recalled and disabled.
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AI attempts to ease fear of robots, blurts out it can’t ‘avoid destroying humankind’ AIID ↗
On September 8, 2020, the Guardian published an op-ed generated by OpenAI’s GPT-3 text generating AI that included threats to destroy humankind. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.
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Tiny Changes Let False Claims About COVID-19, Voting Evade Facebook Fact Checks AIID ↗
Avaaz, an international advocacy group, released a review of Facebook's misinformation identifying software showing that the labeling process failed to label 42% of false information posts, most surrounding COVID-19 and the 2020 USA Presidential Election.
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Ireland's 2020 Leaving Certificate Calculated-Grades Model Reportedly Issued Incorrect Scores to Thousands of Students AIID ↗
After Covid-19 disrupted the 2020 Leaving Certificate exams, Ireland's Department of Education and Skills used a calculated-grades model to issue student results on September 7. The Department later confirmed coding errors in how the model handled Junior Cycle data, resulting in incorrect grades. About 6,100 students received upgraded results, and college-offer eligibility had to be reassessed.
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UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women AIID ↗
UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women.
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Korean Internet Portal Giant Naver Manipulated Shopping and Video Search Algorithms to Favor In-House Services AIID ↗
The Korean Fair Trade Commission (FTC) imposed a 26.7B KRW on Naver for manipulating shopping and video search algorithms, favoring its own online shopping business to boost its market share.
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Facebook’s Algorithm Mistook an Advertisement of Onions as Sexual Suggestive Content AIID ↗
Facebook’s content moderation algorithm misidentified and removed a Canadian business’s advertisement containing a photo of onions as products of overtly sexual content, which was later reinstated after review.
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Amazon’s Robotic Fulfillment Centers Have Higher Serious Injury Rates AIID ↗
Amazon’s robotic fulfillment centers have higher serious injury rates.
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Suicide Clips Evaded TikTok's Automated Moderation in Coordinated Attack AIID ↗
Many clips showing a suicide evaded TikTok's automated content moderation system allegedly in a coordinated attack, which resulted in exposure of violating content to its users.
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Twitter’s Image Cropping Tool Allegedly Showed Gender and Racial Bias AIID ↗
Twitter's photo cropping algorithm was revealed by researchers to favor white and women faces in photos containing multiple faces, prompting the company to stop its use on mobile platform.
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Philosophy AI Tentatively Produced Offensive Results for Certain Prompts AIID ↗
Philosopher AI as built on top of GPT-3 was reported by its users for having strong tendencies to produce offensive results when given prompts on certain topics such as feminism and Ethiopia.
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Philosophy AI Allegedly Used To Generate Mixture of Innocent and Harmful Reddit Posts AIID ↗
Philosopher AI, a GPT-3-powered controversial text generator, was allegedly used by an anonymous actor on AskReddit subreddit, whose posts featured a mixture of harmless stories, conspiracy theories, and sensitive topic discussions.
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UK Ofqual's Algorithm Disproportionately Provided Lower Grades Than Teachers' Assessments AIID ↗
UK Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual)'s grade-standardization algorithm providing predicted grades for A level and GCSE qualifications in the UK, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland was reportedly giving grades lower than teachers' assessments, and disproportionately for state schools.
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Activists Allege NYPD's Application of Facial Recognition Interfered with Right to Protest AIID ↗
Black Lives Matter activists alleged being targeted for arrest by New York Police using facial recognition, interfering with their right to protest.
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OpenAI's GPT-3 Associated Muslims with Violence AIID ↗
Users and researchers revealed generative AI GPT-3 associating Muslims to violence in prompts, resulting in disturbingly racist and explicit outputs such as casting Muslim actor as a terrorist.
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