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Cluster Analysis of AI Incident Journalism
By Sherry Chen, Steven Shen, and Shyam Sivasubramanian
2024-07-22
This blog post is a contributed by Sherry, Steven, an Shyam, students at The George Washington University School of Business who analyzed th...

Researching AI Incidents to Build a Safer Future: The Digital Safety Research Institute partners with the Responsible AI Collaborative
By TheCollab Board of Directors
2024-02-20
The Digital Safety Research Institute (DSRI) of UL Research Institutes is partnering with the Responsible AI Collaborative (TheCollab) to ad...

AI Incident Roundup – January ‘24
By Janet Schwartz
2024-02-08
Read our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID Th...

Deepfakes and Child Safety: A Survey and Analysis of 2023 Incidents and Responses
By Daniel Atherton
2024-01-09
DISCLAIMER: This post is not legal advice or commentary and should not be construed as such. 2023 saw an increase in AI-generated child…...
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Submit Your AI Incident Research to IAAI!
By Scott Cambo
2023-07-19
Answer the Questions: What happened and why? Who: AI, human factors, safety, and ethics researchers Where: Innovative Applications of Artifi...
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AI Incident Roundup – May & June ‘23
By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam
2023-07-18
Read our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID ...

AI Incident Roundup – April ‘23
By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam
2023-05-24
Read our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID I…...

Editor’s Story - Keeping the AI Incidents Fresh
By Daniel Atherton, Khoa Lam, Kate Perkins, & Janet Schwartz
2023-05-16
Want to make AI safer? Submit an incident report. Want to become an Editor? Learn more in the Editor’s Guide Want to follow incident…...

AI Incident Roundup – March ‘23
By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam
2023-04-14
Read our month-in-review newsletter recapping new incidents in the AI Incident Database and looking at the trends. 🗄 Trending in the AIID I…...

How to Understand Large Language Models through Improv
By Sean McGregor
2023-03-28
On February 16th, the New York Times published Kevin Roose's conversation with Microsoft's chatbot wherein the chatbot attempted to end Mr…...

AI Incident Roundup – February ‘23
By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam
2023-03-20
Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...

ChatGPT Incidents and Issues
By Khoa Lam
2023-03-07
“ChatGPT, which has taken the internet by the storm recently, seems to be making it a lot easier for people to add to the chaos.” – Why is…...

AI Incident Roundup – January ‘23
By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam
2023-02-28
Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...

AI Incident Roundup – December ‘22
By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam
2023-01-16
Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...

User Story Spotlight: Subscriptions and eNewsletter
By Janet Schwartz
2023-01-06
Each major feature of the AI Incident Database (AIID) is built as a series of incremental developments within the ‘Agile’ framework…...

AI Incident Roundup – November ‘22
By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam
2022-12-15
Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...

Introducing AI Incident Responses
By Janet Schwartz
2022-12-15
Well known in the security industry, an Incident Response is a structured way for involved parties to learn from attacks and help the…...

Indexing AI Risks with Incidents, Issues, and Variants
By Sean McGregor, Kevin Paeth, Khoa Lam
2022-12-09
Two years after publicly launching the AI Incident Database (AIID) as a collection of harms or near harms produced by AI in the world, a…...

AI Incident Roundup – October ‘22
By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam
2022-11-14
Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...

AI Incident Roundup for September 2022
By Janet Schwartz & Khoa Lam
2022-10-17
Welcome to this month’s edition of The Monthly Roundup, a newsletter designed to give you a digestible recap on the latest incidents and…...

User Story Spotlights: Behind the Scenes of Database Developments
By Janet Schwartz
2022-09-30
Each major feature of the AI Incident Database (AIID) is built as a series of incremental developments within the "Agile" framework…...

AI Incident Report for July and August 2022
By Janet Schwartz
2022-09-12
The Artificial Intelligence Incident Database (AIID) contains a wealth of historical instances of AI harms providing insights for the future…...

Multilingual Incident Reporting
By Sean McGregor and Cesar Varela
2022-08-11
Research and development has a major unsolved problem throughout state of the art AI systems: making systems perform well beyond the…...

Using AI to Connect AI Incidents
By Nicholas Broce, Nicholas Olson, and Jason Scott-Hakanson
2022-08-04
The AI Incident Database (AIID) launched publicly in November 2020 as a dashboard of AI harms realized in the real world. Inspired by…...

RAIC Holds First All-Hands Meeting
By Janet Schwartz
2022-07-20
We are excited to share with our community of AI safety-minded collaborators that the Responsible AI Collaborative (RAIC) reached full…...

Join the Responsible AI Collaborative Founding Staff
By Responsible AI Collaborative
2022-03-29
The AI Incident Database launched publicly in November 2020 as a dashboard of AI harms realized in the real world. Inspired by similar…...

Representation and Imagination for Preventing AI Harms
By Sean McGregor
2021-11-24
This blog post originally appeared as a guest post written for the Montreal AI Ethics Institute. Updated classifications are now available…...

The First Taxonomy of AI Incidents
By Sean McGregor
2021-07-08
In November the Partnership on AI AI Incident Database (AIID) publicly invited users to instantly search through thousands of pages of text…...