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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Calgary Malls Reportedly Deployed Facial Recognition Without Customer Consent AIID ↗
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.
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Tesla on Autopilot Crashed into Parked Police Car in California AIID ↗
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.
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Tesla Autopilot Allegedly Malfunctioned in a Non-Fatal Collision in Greece AIID ↗
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.
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Amazon Echo Mistakenly Recorded and Sent Private Conversation to Random Contact AIID ↗
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.
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Amazon Allegedly Violated Children's Privacy through Default Voice Collection Settings AIID ↗
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.
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Facebook’s Automated Removal of Content Featuring Nudity-Containing Artworks Denounced as Censorship AIID ↗
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.
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Tesla Model X on Autopilot Missed Parked Vehicles and Pedestrians, Killing Motorcyclist in Japan AIID ↗
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.
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Content Using Bestiality Thumbnails Allegedly Evaded YouTube’s Thumbnail Monitoring System AIID ↗
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.
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AI incident: sexual content (Apr 2018) AIID ↗
An AI Incident Database record involving sexual content, dated 20 April 2018. Risk classification, related incidents and the laws on record for this risk area.
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Facial Recognition Program in São Paulo Metro Stations Suspended for Illegal and Disproportionate Violation of Citizens' Right to Privacy AIID ↗
A facial recognition program rolled out by São Paulo Metro Stations was suspended following a court ruling in response to a lawsuit by civil society organizations, who cited fear of it being integrated with other electronic surveillance entities without consent, and lack of transparency about the biometric data collection process of metro users.
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Argentinian City Government Deployed Teenage-Pregnancy Predictive Algorithm Using Invasive Demographic Data AIID ↗
In 2018, during the abortion-decriminalization debate in Argentina, the Salta city government deployed a teenage-pregnancy predictive algorithm built by Microsoft that allegedly lacked a defined purpose, explicitly considered sensitive information such as disability and whether their home had access to hot water.
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All Image Captions Produced are Violent AIID ↗
MIT Media Lab researchers create AI-powered "psychopath" named Norman by training a model on "dark corners" of Reddit.
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Tesla Model X on Autopilot Crashed into California Highway Barrier, Killing Driver AIID ↗
A Tesla Model X P100D operating on Autopilot's Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC) and Autosteer system allegedly accelerated above the speed limit of a highway in Mountain View, California, and steered itself directly into a barrier, resulting in its driver’s death.
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Uber AV Killed Pedestrian in Arizona AIID ↗
An Uber autonomous vehicle (AV) in autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona.
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Man Arrested For Sock Theft by False Facial Match Despite Alibi AIID ↗
A man was arrested for theft of socks from a TJ Maxx store under the guise of an eyewitness ID case, after the local police asked the store's security guard to confirm the facial recognition match produced using surveillance footage, despite him having an alibi at the time of the theft.
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Australian Telco’s Incident Management Bot Excessively Sent Technicians in the Field by Mistake, Allegedly Costing Millions AIID ↗
In early 2018, an Australian telecommunications company’s incident management AI excessively deployed technicians into the field, and was allegedly unable to be stopped by the automation team.
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Google Photo Merge Decapitates Subject AIID ↗
Google Photos' AI Assistant created a strange hybrid photograph when merging three different pictures from a ski trip.
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Tesla on Autopilot Collided with Parked Fire Truck on California Freeway AIID ↗
A Tesla Model S operating on Autopilot mode crashed into the back of a parked fire truck on a freeway in Culver City, California in a non-fatal collision.
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Customer Service Robot Scares Away Customers AIID ↗
Heriot-Watt Univeristy in Scotland developed an artificially intelligent grocery store robot, Fabio, who provided unhelpful answers to customer's questions and "scared away" multiple customers, according to the grocery store Margiotta.
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Gmail’s Inbox Sorting System Reportedly Reduced Visibility of Political Emails and Campaign Calls-to-Action AIID ↗
Google's Gmail inbox sorting algorithm for political emails was reported by presidential candidates, nonprofits, and advocacy groups for having negative impact on call-to-actions, allegedly suppressing donations and impeding political actions.
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Waze App Allegedly Caused Tourists’ Car to End up in Lake Champlain, Vermont AIID ↗
The tourists driving through Vermont blamed Waze for directing them into a boat launch in Lake Champlain, prompting the vehicle to slide into the water by the time the drivers realized their location in the dark and foggy weather.
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Bad AI-Written Christmas Carols AIID ↗
Janelle Shane, an AI research scientist, used 240 popular Christmas carols to train a neural network to write its own carols. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.
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Waze Navigates Motorists into Wildfires AIID ↗
Waze, a Google-owned directions app, led California drivers into the 2017 Skirball wildfires as they tried to evacuate the area.
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Driverless Train in Delhi Crashes due to Braking Failure AIID ↗
A driverless metro train in Delhi, India crashed during a test run due to faulty brakes.
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Instagram's Exposure of Harmful Content Allegedly Contributed to Teenage Girl's Suicide AIID ↗
Instagram was ruled by a judge to have contributed to the death of a teenage girl in the UK allegedly through its exposure and recommendation of suicide, self-harm, and depressive content.
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What is recorded in each incident?
What happened, when, who was involved as developer or deployer, who was harmed, the sectors and countries affected, and the domain and subdomain the harm falls under. Incidents are mirrored from the AI Incident Database and each links back to its source record.
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