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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Warehouse robot ruptures can of bear spray and injures workers AIID ↗
Twenty-four Amazon workers in New Jersey were hospitalized after a robot punctured a can of bear repellent spray in a warehouse.
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Tumblr Automated Pornography-Detecting Algorithms Erroneously Flagged Inoffensive Images as Explicit AIID ↗
Tumblr’s automated tools to identify adult content were reported to have incorrectly flagged inoffensive images as explicit, following its announcement to ban all adult content on the platform.
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Facial Recognition Pilot in Bahia Reportedly Targeted Black and Poor People AIID ↗
Facial recognition deployed in a pilot project by the local government of Bahia despite having minimal hit rate reportedly targeted Black and poor people disproportionately.
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Sleeping Driver on Tesla AutoPilot AIID ↗
A Tesla Model S remained on autopilot while being operated by a drunk, sleeping operator whose hands were not on the wheel. The police had to slow the car down by slowing in front of the vehicle to activate its 'driver assist' feature .
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Schufa Credit Scoring in Germany Reported for Unreliable and Imbalanced Scores AIID ↗
Creditworthiness Schufa scores in Germany reportedly privileged older and female consumers, and people who changed addresses less frequently, and were unreliable depending on scoring version.
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Reported Automated License Plate Reader Alert on Previously Stolen Rental Car Leads to Alleged Wrongful Detainment in California AIID ↗
A purportedly automated license plate reader allegedly flagged a rental car in California as stolen, although reports indicate it had already been recovered. Police reportedly conducted a high-risk stop and detained the occupants at gunpoint before confirming their innocence. The driver later alleged excessive force and database errors in a federal lawsuit.
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Emotion Detection Models Showed Disparate Performance along Racial Lines AIID ↗
Emotion detection tools by Face++ and Microsoft's Face API allegedly scored smiling or defaulted ambiguous facial photos for Black faces as negative emotion more often than for white faces.
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Wrongful Attempted Arrest for Apple Store Thefts Due to NYPD’s Facial Misidentification AIID ↗
New York Police Department (NYPD)’s facial recognition system falsely connected a Black teenager to a series of thefts at Apple stores, which resulted in his wrongful attempted arrest.
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Picture of Woman on Side of Bus Shamed for Jaywalking AIID ↗
Facial recognition system in China mistakes celebrity's face on moving billboard for jaywalker
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Crashes with Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) AIID ↗
A Boeing 737 crashed into the sea, killing 189 people, after faulty sensor data caused an automated manuevering system to repeatedly push the plane's nose downward.
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Oregon’s Screening Tool for Child Abuse Cases Discontinued Following Concerns of Racial Bias AIID ↗
Oregon’s Department of Human Services (DHS) stopped using its Safety at Screening Tool, that is aimed to predict the risk that children wind up in foster care or be investigated in the future, and opted for a new process allegedly to reduce disparities and improve racially equitable decision-making.
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Facebook "News Feed" Allegedly Boosted Misinformation and Violating Content Following Use of MSI Metric AIID ↗
After the “News Feed” algorithm had been overhauled to boost engagement between friends and family in early 2018, its heavy weighting of re-shared content was alleged found by company researchers to have pushed content creators to reorient their posts towards outrage and sensationalism, causing a proliferation of misinformation, toxicity, and violent content.
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Dutch Families Wrongfully Accused of Tax Fraud Due to Discriminatory Algorithm AIID ↗
A childcare benefits system in the Netherlands falsely accused thousands of families of fraud, in part due to an algorithm that treated having a second nationality as a risk factor.
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Facebook Allegedly Failed to Police Anti-Rohingya Hate Speech Content That Contributed to Violence in Myanmar AIID ↗
Facebook allegedly did not adequately remove anti-Rohingya hate speech, some of which was extremely violent and dehumanizing, on its platform, contributing to the violence faced by Rohingya communities in Myanmar.
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HUD charges Facebook with enabling housing discrimination AIID ↗
In March 2019 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charged Facebook with violating the Fair Housing Act by allowing real estate sellers to target advertisements in a discriminatory manner.
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Amazon Allegedly Tweaked Search Algorithm to Boost Its Own Products AIID ↗
Amazon tweaked product-search algorithm to boost and guide customers towards more profitable in-house products instead of showing mainly most-relevant and best-selling listings, which its internal engineers and lawyers alleged to violate company’s best-for-customer principle.
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Amazon's Rekognition Falsely Matched Members of Congress to Mugshots AIID ↗
Rekognition's face comparison feature was shown by the ACLU to have misidentified members of congress, and particularly members of colors, as other people who have been arrested using a mugshot database built on publicly available arrest photos.
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Swedish Contraceptive App, Natural Cycles, Allegedly Failed to Correctly Map Menstrual Cycle AIID ↗
Some women using the contraceptive app, Natural Cycles, reported unwanted pregnancies, revealing its algorithm's difficulties in mapping menstrual cycles.
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Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims AIID ↗
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.
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Uber Allegedly Wrongfully Accused Drivers of Fraud via Automated Systems AIID ↗
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.
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Transgender Uber Drivers Mistakenly Kicked off App for Appearance Change during Gender Transitions AIID ↗
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.
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Facebook’s Automated Content Moderation Tool Flagged a Post Containing Parts of the Declaration of Independence as Hate Speech by Mistake AIID ↗
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.
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Atlantic City Casino-Hotels Allegedly Used Cendyn's Rainmaker AI to Coordinate and Inflate Room Rates AIID ↗
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.
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OpenAI's Training Data for LLMs Allegedly Comprised of Copyrighted Books AIID ↗
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.
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Two Cruise Autonomous Vehicles Collided with Each Other in California AIID ↗
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.
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Frequently asked questions
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.
Does an incident mean wrongdoing was proven?
No. These are reported incidents, not findings of liability. Entities named in a report are named as reported, allegations are marked as alleged, and nothing here is a legal determination.
How current is the incident data?
It syncs directly from the AI Incident Database several times a day, so a new incident usually appears within hours. Each record carries the date it was last synced, and the snapshot date is shown on the page.
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No. The report texts are outside the licence this data is shared under, so only the metadata and the classifications appear here. Every row links to the original incident record, which carries the reports themselves.