Alongside the rise of AI comes a rise in AI incidents and controversies. This chart chronicles the number of incidents concerning the misuses of AI. The data is about a year old, though it includes some incidents from 2022 like a deepfake of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy surrendering and news that Intel had developed a system for monitoring student emotions over Zoom, a technology that raised privacy and discrimination concerns.
Data from the AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Incidents and Controversies (AIAAIC) Repository, a publicly available database,
The rise of AI-related incidents creates the need for startup solutions. Companies like Abnormal Security protect against AI-driven cyberattacks, while companies like Dust help enterprises use their proprietary data in large language models (while ensuring personally identifiable information remains safe).
