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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Robot Deployed by Animal Shelter to Patrol Sidewalks outside Its Office, Warding off Homeless People in San Francisco AIID ↗
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) deployed a Knightscope robot to autonomously patrol the area outside its office and ward off homeless people, which was criticized by residents as a tool of intimidation and ordered by the city of San Francisco to stop its use on a public right-of-way.
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Amazon Alexa Plays Loud Music when Owner is Away AIID ↗
An Amazon Alexa, without instruction to do so, began playing loud music in the early morning while the homeowner was away leading to police breaking into their house to turn off the device.
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Las Vegas Self-Driving Bus Involved in Accident AIID ↗
A self-driving public shuttle by Keolis North America and Navya was involved in a collision with a human-driven delivery truck in Las Vegas, Nevada on its first day of service.
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iPhone Face ID Failed to Recognize Users’ Morning Faces AIID ↗
The Face ID feature on iPhone allowing users to unlock their phones via facial recognition was reported by users for not recognizing their faces in the morning.
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Biased Sentiment Analysis AIID ↗
Google Cloud's Natural Language API provided racist, homophobic, amd antisemitic sentiment analyses.
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Facebook translates 'good morning' into 'attack them', leading to arrest AIID ↗
Facebook's automatic language translation software incorrectly translated an Arabic post saying "Good morning" into Hebrew saying "hurt them," leading to the arrest of a Palestinian man in Beitar Illit, Israel.
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Russian Chatbot Supports Stalin and Violence AIID ↗
Yandex, a Russian technology company, released an artificially intelligent chat bot named Alice which began to reply to questions with racist, pro-stalin, and pro-violence responses
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WeChat’s Machine Translation Gave a Racist English Translation for the Chinese Term for “Black Foreigner” AIID ↗
The Chinese platform WeChat provided an inappropriate and racist English translation for the Chinese term for “black foreigner” in its messaging app.
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Google Fined for Changing Shopping Algorithms in EU to Favor Own Service AIID ↗
Google was fined by EU Commission for changing its shopping algorithms in Europe to favor its own comparison service over competitors, resulting in anti-competitive effects.
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Offensive Instagram User Content Displayed as Facebook Ad AIID ↗
An Instagram user’s image containing violent content was reportedly used as advertisement on Facebook allegedly via automated means.
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Amazon Reportedly Recommends Explosive-Producing Ingredients as 'Frequently Bought Together' Items for Chemicals AIID ↗
Amazon was reported to have shown chemical combinations for producing explosives and incendiary devices as "frequently bought together" items via automated recommendation.
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AI-Assisted Body Scanners Reportedly Subjected Transgender Travelers to Invasive Body Searches AIID ↗
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)'s use of image-processing body scanners at airports led transgender and gender-nonconforming travelers to be subjected to allegedly discriminatory and invasive searches, such as being asked to remove undergarments in private rooms by officers not of their gender.
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Identical Twins Can Open Apple FaceID Protected Devices AIID ↗
Apple's iPhone FaceID can be opened by an identical twin of the person who has registered their face to unlock the phone.
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Hackers Break Apple Face ID AIID ↗
Vietnamese security firm Bkav created an improved mask to bypass Apple's Face ID
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Researchers' Homosexual-Men Detection Model Denounced as a Threat to LGBTQ People's Safety and Privacy AIID ↗
Researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business developed a model that determined, on a binary scale, whether someone was homosexual using only his facial image, which advocacy groups such as GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign denounced as flawed science and threatening to LGBTQ folks.
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Facial Recognition Trial Performed Poorly at Notting Hill Carnival AIID ↗
The facial recognition trial by London’s Metropolitan Police Service at the Notting Hill Carnival reportedly performed poorly with a high rate of false positives.
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'Jewish Baby Strollers' Provided Antisemitic Google Images, Allegedly Resulting from Hate Speech Campaign AIID ↗
Results for Google Images searches for "Jewish baby strollers" reportedly showed offensive, antisemitic results, allegedly a result of a coordinated hate-speech campaign involving malicious actors on 4chan.
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Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party AIID ↗
Chatbots on Chinese messaging service expressed anti-China sentiments, causing the messaging service to remove and reprogram the chatbots.
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Tesla Sedan on Autopilot Reportedly Drove Over Dividing Curb in Washington, Resulting in Minor Vehicle Damage AIID ↗
A Tesla Sedan operating on Autopilot mode was not able to center itself on the road and drove over a yellow dividing curb in Redmond, Washington, causing minor damage to the vehicle’s rear suspension.
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UK High Court Found Sky Betting & Gaming Unlawfully Used Automated Profiling and Targeted Marketing to Exploit a Recovering Problem Gambler AIID ↗
In the UK, the High Court found that Sky Betting & Gaming unlawfully used automated profiling and targeted direct marketing to pursue a recovering problem gambler from July 28, 2017 onward without valid consent. Sky reportedly treated him as a high-value customer despite addiction indicators.
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Security Robot Drowns Itself in a Fountain AIID ↗
A Knightscope K5 security robot ran itself into a water fountain in Washington, DC.
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AI-Designed Phone Cases Are Unexpected AIID ↗
A third-party Amazon merchant named “my_handy_design” was suspected of using a bot to generate cell phone case designs based on the bizarre and unattractive designs being offered.
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Atlas Robot Fell off Stage at Conference AIID ↗
Boston Dynamics’s autonomous robot Atlas allegedly caught its foot on a stage light, resulting in a fall off the stage at the Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders conference.
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Airbnb's Trustworthiness Algorithm Allegedly Banned Users without Explanation, and Discriminated against Sex Workers AIID ↗
Airbnb allegedly considered publicly available data on users to gauge their trustworthiness via algorithmic assessment of personality and behavioral traits, resulting in unexplained bans and discriminatory bans against sex workers.
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Deepfake Obama Introduction of Deepfakes AIID ↗
University of Washington researchers made a deepfake of Obama, followed by Jordan Peele
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