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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COMPAS Algorithm Reportedly Performs Poorly in Crime Recidivism Prediction AIID ↗
Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS), a recidivism risk-assessment algorithmic tool used in the judicial system to assess likelihood of defendants' recidivism, is found to be less accurate than random untrained human evaluators.
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Northpointe Risk Models AIID ↗
An algorithm developed by Northpointe and used in the penal system is two times more likely to incorrectly label a black person as a high-risk re-offender and is two times more likely to incorrectly label a white person as low-risk for reoffense according to a ProPublica review.
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Chinese Insurer Ping An Employed Facial Recognition to Determine Customers’ Untrustworthiness, Which Critics Alleged to Likely Make Errors and Discriminate AIID ↗
Customers’ untrustworthiness and unprofitability were reportedly determined by Ping An, a large insurance company in China, via facial-recognition measurements of micro-expressions and body-mass indices (BMI), which critics argue was likely to make mistakes, discriminate against certain ethnic groups, and undermine its own industry.
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AI incident: sexual content (Ntechlab, Apr 2016) AIID ↗
An AI Incident Database record involving sexual content, dated 9 April 2016. Risk classification, related incidents and the laws on record for this risk area.
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Google Images Showed Racially Biased Results for 'Professional' Hairstyles AIID ↗
Google Images reportedly showed disparate search results along racial lines, featuring almost exclusively white women for "professional hairstyles" and Black women for "unprofessional hairstyles" prompts.
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Unreliable ShotSpotter Audio Convicted Black Rochester Man of Shooting Police AIID ↗
ShotSpotter's "unreliable" audio was used as scientific evidence to accuse and convict a Black man of attempting to shoot Rochester's city police, whose conviction was later reversed by a county judge.
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Biased Google Image Results AIID ↗
On June 6, 2016, Google image searches of "three black teenagers" resulted in mostly mugshot images whereas Google image searchers of "three white teenagers" consisted of mostly stock images, suggesting a racial bias in Google's algorithm.
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Microsoft's TayBot Allegedly Posts Racist, Sexist, and Anti-Semitic Content to Twitter AIID ↗
Microsoft's Tay, an artificially intelligent chatbot, was released on March 23, 2016 and removed within 24 hours due to multiple racist, sexist, and anti-semitic tweets generated by the bot.
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Is Pokémon Go racist? How the app may be redlining communities of color AIID ↗
Through a crowdsourcing social media campaign in 2016, several journalists and researchers demonstrated that augmented reality locations in the popular smartphone game Pokemon Go were more likely to be in white neighborhoods.
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Google Waymo Vehicle and Bus Allegedly Collide in California AIID ↗
On February 14, 2016, a Google autonomous test vehicle partially responsible for a low-speed collision with a bus on El Camino Real in Google’s hometown of Mountain View, CA.
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Twitter Recommender System Amplified Right-Leaning Tweets AIID ↗
Twitter’s “Home” timeline algorithm was revealed by its internal researchers to have amplified tweets and news of rightwing politicians and organizations more than leftwing ones in six out of seven studied countries.
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Self-driving cars in winter AIID ↗
Volvo autonomous driving XC90 SUV's experienced issues in Jokkmokk, Sweden when sensors used for automated driving iced over during the winter, rendering them useless.
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Uber's Surge Pricing Reportedly Offered Disproportionate Service Quality along Racial Lines AIID ↗
Uber's surge-pricing algorithm which adjusts prices to influence car availability inadvertently caused better service offering such as shorter wait times for majority white neighborhoods.
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Dutch City Court Defended Home Value Generated by Black-Box Algorithm AIID ↗
A home value generated by a black-box algorithm was reportedly defended by the Castricum court, which was criticized by a legal specialist for setting a dangerous precedent for accepting black-box algorithms as long as their results appear reasonable.
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A Tesla Crashed into and Killed a Road Sweeper on a Highway in China AIID ↗
A Tesla Model S collided with and killed a road sweeper on a highway near Handan, China, an accident where Tesla previously said it was not able to determine whether Autopilot was operating at the time of the crash.
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Arkansas's Opaque Algorithm to Allocate Health Care Excessively Cut Down Hours for Beneficiaries AIID ↗
Beneficiaries of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS)'s Medicaid waiver program were allocated excessively fewer hours of caretaker visit via an algorithm deployed to boost efficiency, which reportedly contained errors and whose outputs varied wildly despite small input changes.
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