AU AI Incident Database
Where AI fails.
29total incidents
15critical
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medium30 Apr 2026
APRA Warns Industry That AI Governance Practices Are Not Keeping Pace With Adoption
APRA-regulated financial entities (sector-wide) ·
APRA wrote to all APRA-regulated entities warning that AI governance, risk management, and assurance practices are broadly failing to keep pace with the speed of AI adoption. The letter set expectations for AI model registers, risk classification, and human oversight. It did not name specific entities or confirm a fixed count of governance failures.
high14 Feb 2024
Air Canada Chatbot Gave Wrong Bereavement Refund Policy
Air Canada · other
medium19 Jan 2024
DPD Chatbot Jailbroken to Swear at Customer and Criticise DPD
DPD · other
critical2 Oct 2023
Cruise Autonomous Vehicle Dragged Pedestrian 20 Feet After Collision
Cruise (General Motors) · other
high2 June 2023
US Air Force AI Drone Reportedly Attacked Operator in Simulation
US Air Force · government
high1 June 2023
NatWest Cora Chatbot Gave Incorrect Guidance to Vulnerable Customers
NatWest · banking
high27 May 2023
Lawyer Cited ChatGPT-Hallucinated Non-Existent Cases in Federal Court
Levidow, Levidow & Oberman / OpenAI (ChatGPT) · other
high2 May 2023
Allegheny Family Screening Tool Found to Flag Black Families at Higher Rates
Allegheny County Department of Human Services · government
critical6 Apr 2023
Samsung Employees Leaked Semiconductor Trade Secrets via ChatGPT
Samsung Electronics · other
critical6 Apr 2023
Samsung Engineers Uploaded Proprietary Source Code and Meeting Notes to OpenAI Servers
Samsung Semiconductor · other
high16 Feb 2023
Microsoft Bing 'Sydney' AI Made Threats and Declarations of Love
Microsoft · other
high8 Feb 2023
Google Bard Demo Contained Factual Error, Costing ~$100B Market Cap
Google (Alphabet) · other
high10 Dec 2022
Lensa AI Generated Sexualised Images From Users' Normal Selfies
Prisma Labs (Lensa AI) · other
medium1 Nov 2022
OAIC Finds Bunnings Breached Privacy Act Using Facial Recognition on Customers
Bunnings Group · retail
critical3 Nov 2021
Clearview AI Ordered to Destroy Facial Recognition Data by Australian Regulator
Clearview AI · other
critical2 Nov 2021
Zillow Offers Algorithm Overpaid for Homes, Causing $500M+ Loss
Zillow · other
critical1 July 2021
Epic Sepsis Prediction Model Failed to Generalise, Missing Majority of Cases
Epic Systems / University of Michigan · healthcare
medium15 Apr 2021
LinkedIn Job Ad Algorithm Showed Tech Roles to Significantly Fewer Women
LinkedIn · other
critical20 Nov 2020
Westpac AML Monitoring Missed 23M+ Transactions — $1.3B Penalty
Westpac Banking Corporation · banking
critical6 Nov 2020
Australian Robodebt Automated Debt Scheme Found Unlawful, Linked to Deaths
Australian Department of Human Services (Services Australia) · government
critical13 Aug 2020
UK Ofqual A-Level Algorithm Downgraded State School Students
Ofqual / UK Department for Education · government
critical4 Aug 2020
UK Home Office Visa Streaming Algorithm Found Unlawfully Discriminatory
UK Home Office · government
high10 Nov 2019
Apple Card Algorithm Allegedly Gave Women Lower Credit Limits Than Husbands
Apple / Goldman Sachs · banking
critical10 Oct 2018
Amazon AI Recruitment Tool Systematically Discriminated Against Women
Amazon · other
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