{"attribution":{"source":"AI Incident Database (Responsible AI Collaborative)","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","citation":"McGregor, S. (2021). Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21).","snapshot_date":"2026-09-07"},"exported_at":"2026-09-11"}
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