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["facebook-messenger"]

["scatter-lab"]

["korean-facebook-messenger-users","korean-people-of-gender-minorities","korean-people-with-disabilities"]

A Korean interactive chatbot was shown in screenshots to have used derogatory and bigoted language when asked about lesbians, Black people, and people with disabilities.

Korean Chatbot Luda Made Offensive Remarks towards Minority Groups

derogatory and bigoted language

bigoted language

bias, content, false

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["riverside-arena-skating-rink"]

["unknown"]

["lamya-robinson","black-livonia-residents"]

A Black teenager living in Livonia, Michigan was incorrectly stopped from entering a roller skating rink after its facial-recognition cameras misidentified her as another person who had been previously banned for starting a skirmish with other skaters.

Skating Rink’s Facial Recognition Cameras Misidentified Black Teenager as Banned Troublemaker

another person

black teenager

bias, content, false

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["genderify"]

["genderify"]

["genderify-customers","gender-minority-groups"]

A company's AI predicting a person's gender based on their name, email address, or username was reported by its users to show biased and inaccurate results.

Genderify’s AI to Predict a Person’s Gender Revealed by Free API Users to Exhibit Bias

biased and inaccurate results

inaccurate results

bias, content, false

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[1439]

["amazon"]

["amazon"]

["rekognition-users","arrested-people"]

Rekognition's face comparison feature was shown by the ACLU to have misidentified members of congress, and particularly members of colors, as other people who have been arrested using a mugshot database built on publicly available arrest photos.

Amazon's Rekognition Falsely Matched Members of Congress to Mugshots

misidentified members

rekognition

bias, content, false

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["none"]

["huawei","megvii","sensetime","alibaba","baibu"]

["uyghur-people"]

Various Chinese firms were revealed by patent applications to have developed facial recognition capable of detecting people by race, which critics feared would enable persecution and discrimination of Uyghur Muslims.

Chinese Tech Firms Allegedly Developed Facial Recognition to Identify People by Race, Targeting Uyghur Muslims

facial recognition

discrimination

system, recognition, facial

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["xsolla"]

["unknown"]

["xsolla-employees"]

Xsolla CEO fired more than a hundred employees from his company in Perm, Russia, based on big data analysis of their remote digitized-work activity, which critics said was violating employee's privacy, outdated, and extremely ineffective.

Xsolla Employees Fired by CEO Allegedly via Big Data Analytics of Work Activities

ineffective

company

bias, content, false

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[1408]

["tesla"]

["tesla"]

["jovani-maldonado","benjamin-maldonado","california-public"]

A Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot mode crashed into a pickup on a California freeway, where data and video from the company showed neither Autopilot nor the driver slowing the vehicle until seconds before the crash.

Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot Crashed into a Ford Explorer Pickup, Killing a Fifteen-Year-Old in California

the crash

crash

year, risk, crash

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[1402]

["university-of-massachusetts-amherst","university-of-wisconsin-milwaukee","university-of-houston","texas-aandm-university","georgia-state-university","more-than-500-colleges"]

["eab"]

["black-college-students","latinx-college-students","indigenous-students"]

Several major universities are using a tool that uses race as one factor to predict student success.

Major Universities Are Using Race as a “High Impact Predictor” of Student Success

one factor

factor

bias, content, false

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["tripoli-based-government"]

["stm"]

["libyan-soldiers"]

In Libya, a Turkish-made Kargu-2 aerial drone powered by a computer vision model was allegedly used remotely by forces backed by the Tripoli-based government to track down and attack enemies as they were running from rocket attacks.

Autonomous Kargu-2 Drone Allegedly Remotely Used to Hunt down Libyan Soldiers

rocket attacks

tripoli

bias, content, false

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[1412]

["pimeyes"]

["pimeyes"]

["internet-users"]

PimEyes offered its subscription-based AI service to anyone in the public to search for matching facial images across the internet, which critics said lacked public oversight and government rules to prevent itself from misuse such as stalking women.

PimEyes's Facial Recognition AI Allegedly Lacked Safeguards to Prevent Itself from Being Abused

facial images

pimeyes

system, recognition, facial

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["dutch-tax-authority"]

["unknown"]

["dutch-tax-authority","dutch-families"]

A childcare benefits system in the Netherlands falsely accused thousands of families of fraud, in part due to an algorithm that treated having a second nationality as a risk factor.

Dutch Families Wrongfully Accused of Tax Fraud Due to Discriminatory Algorithm

a risk factor

fraud

bias, content, false

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[1406,1527,1528,2145,2241]

["twitter"]

["twitter"]

["twitter-users","twitter-non-white-users","twitter-non-male-users"]

Twitter's photo cropping algorithm was revealed by researchers to favor white and women faces in photos containing multiple faces, prompting the company to stop its use on mobile platform.

Twitter’s Image Cropping Tool Allegedly Showed Gender and Racial Bias

its use

multiple faces

bias, content, false

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[1438]

["facebook"]

["facebook"]

["black-people","facebook-users"]

Facebook's AI mislabeled video featuring Black men as a video about "primates," resulting in an offensive prompt message for users who watched the video.

Facebook's AI Put "Primates" Label on Video Featuring Black Men

an offensive prompt message

offensive prompt message

bias, content, false

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[1448]

["facebook"]

["facebook"]

["facebook-users"]

Facebook’s initial version of the its Tag Suggestions feature where users were offered suggestions about the identity of people's faces in photos allegedly stored biometric data without consent, violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.

Facebook’s "Tag Suggestions" Allegedly Stored Biometric Data without User Consent

the identity

consent

bias, content, false

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[1405,1523]

["microsoft","ibm","google","apple","amazon"]

["microsoft","ibm","google","apple","amazon"]

["black-people"]

A study found that voice recognition tools from Apple, Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft disproportionately made errors when transcribing black speakers.

Personal voice assistants struggle with black voices, new study shows

black speakers

errors

bias, content, false

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["shotspotter"]

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ShotSpotter algorithmic systems locating gunshots were reported by police departments for containing high false positive rates and wasting police resources, prompting discontinuation.

Police Departments Reported ShotSpotter as Unreliable and Wasteful

high false positive rates

gunshots

bias, content, false

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[1403]

["french-welfare-offices"]

["unknown"]

["lucie-inland"]

A French welfare office using software to automatically evaluate cases incorrectly notified a woman receiving benefits that she owed €542.

How French welfare services are creating ‘robo-debt’

a woman

cases

bias, content, false

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["amazon"]

["netradyne"]

["amazon-delivery-drivers","amazon-workers"]

Amazon's automated performance evaluation system involving AI-powered cameras incorrectly punished delivery drivers for non-existent mistakes, impacting their chances for bonuses and rewards.

Amazon's AI Cameras Incorrectly Penalized Delivery Drivers for Mistakes They Did Not Make

non-existent mistakes

ai

bias, content, false

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["openai"]

["openai"]

["muslims"]

Users and researchers revealed generative AI GPT-3 associating Muslims to violence in prompts, resulting in disturbingly racist and explicit outputs such as casting Muslim actor as a terrorist.

OpenAI's GPT-3 Associated Muslims with Violence

disturbingly racist and explicit outputs

violence

bias, content, false

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[1445]

["unknown"]

["murat-ayfer","openai"]

["reddit-users"]

Philosopher AI, a GPT-3-powered controversial text generator, was allegedly used by an anonymous actor on AskReddit subreddit, whose posts featured a mixture of harmless stories, conspiracy theories, and sensitive topic discussions.

Philosophy AI Allegedly Used To Generate Mixture of Innocent and Harmful Reddit Posts

a mixture

conspiracy theories

bias, content, false

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["tiktok"]

["tiktok"]

["tiktok-users","tiktok-content-creators"]

TikTok's "Suggested Accounts" recommendations allegedly reinforced racial bias despite not basing recommendations on race or creators' profile photo.

TikTok's "Suggested Accounts" Algorithm Allegedly Reinforced Racial Bias through Feedback Loops

racial bias

racial bias

bias, content, false

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[1462]

["facebook"]

["facebook"]

["facebook-users"]

Facebook's automated moderation tools were shown by internal documents performing incomparably to human moderators, and accounting for only a small fraction of hate speech, violence, and incitement content removal.

Facebook's Automated Tools Failed to Adequately Remove Hate Speech, Violence, and Incitement

hate speech

violence

bias, content, false

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[1478]

["university-of-toronto"]

["proctoru"]

["university-of-toronto-bipoc-students"]

An exam monitoring service used by the University of Toronto was alleged by its students to have provided discriminatory check-in experiences via its facial recognition's failure to verify passport photo, disproportionately enhancing disadvantaging stress level for BIPOC students.

ProctorU’s Identity Verification and Exam Monitoring Systems Provided Allegedly Discriminatory Experiences for BIPOC Students

its facial recognition's failure

discriminatory check

system, recognition, facial

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["allen-institute-for-ai"]

["allen-institute-for-ai"]

["minority-groups"]

A publicly accessible research model that was trained via Reddit threads showed racially biased advice on moral dilemmas, allegedly demonstrating limitations of language-based models trained on moral judgments.

Research Prototype AI, Delphi, Reportedly Gave Racially Biased Answers on Ethics

racially biased advice

moral dilemmas

bias, content, false

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[1474]

["israeli-tax-authority"]

["israeli-tax-authority"]

["moshe-har-shemesh","israeli-people-having-tax-fines"]

An Israeli farmer was imposed a computer generated fine by the tax authority, who allegedly were not able to explain its calculation, and refused to disclose the program and its source code.

Israeli Tax Authority Employed Opaque Algorithm to Impose Fines, Reportedly Refusing to Provide an Explanation for Amount Calculation to a Farmer

its calculation

program

bias, content, false

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["youtube"]

["youtube"]

["antonio-radic","youtube-chess-content-creators","youtube-users"]

YouTube's AI-powered hate speech detection system falsely flagged chess content and banned chess creators allegedly due to its misinterpretation of strategy language such as "black," "white," and "attack" as harmful and dangerous.

YouTube's AI Mistakenly Banned Chess Channel over Chess Language Misinterpretation

its misinterpretation

hate speech detection system

bias, content, false

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["accessibe","accessus.ai","allyable","userway","maxaccess.io"]

["accessibe","accessus.ai","allyable","userway","maxaccess.io"]

["internet-users-with-disabilities","web-accessibility-vendors'-customers"]

AI-powered web accessibility vendors allegedly overstated to customers about their products' utility for people with disabilities, falsely claiming to deliver automated compliance solutions.

Web Accessibility Vendors Allegedly Falsely Claimed to Provide Compliance Using AI

automated compliance solutions

disabilities

bias, content, false

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["amazon"]

["amazon"]

["kristin-livdahl's-daughter","amazon-echo-customers","children-using-alexa"]

Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa suggested “the penny challenge,” which involves dangerously touching a coin to the prongs of a half-exposed plug, when a ten-year-old girl asked for a challenge to do.

Alexa Recommended Dangerous TikTok Challenge to Ten-Year-Old Girl

a challenge

challenge

bias, content, false

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["softbank"]

["aldebaran","softbank-robotics"]

["softbank"]

SoftBank's robot allegedly kept making mechanical errors, taking unplanned breaks, failing to recognize previously-met people, and breaking down during practice runs.

SoftBank's Humanoid Robot, Pepper, Reportedly Frequently Made Errors, Prompting Dismissal

mechanical errors

mechanical errors

bias, content, false

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["facebook"]

["facebook"]

["female-facebook-users","black-facebook-users","male-facebook-users"]

Facebook's housing and employment ad delivery process allegedly resulted in skews in exposure for some users along demographic lines such as gender and racial identity.

Facebook's Ad Delivery Reportedly Excluded Audience along Racial and Gender Lines

racial identity

skews

bias, content, false

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[1534]

["facebook"]

["facebook"]

["facebook-users","facebook-content-creators"]

After the “News Feed” algorithm had been overhauled to boost engagement between friends and family in early 2018, its heavy weighting of re-shared content was alleged found by company researchers to have pushed content creators to reorient their posts towards outrage and sensationalism, causing a proliferation of misinformation, toxicity, and violent content.

Facebook "News Feed" Allegedly Boosted Misinformation and Violating Content Following Use of MSI Metric

violent content

outrage

bias, content, false

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["facebook","linkedin","youtube","twitter","netflix"]

["facebook","linkedin","youtube","twitter","netflix"]

["facebook-users","linkedin-users","youtube-users","twitter-users","netflix-users"]

Collaborative filtering prone to popularity bias, resulting in overrepresentation of popular items in the recommendation outputs.

Collaborative Filtering Prone to Popularity Bias, Resulting in Overrepresentation of Popular Items in the Recommendation Outputs

popularity bias

popularity bias

bias, content, false

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[1468]

["tiktok"]

["tiktok"]

["tiktok-content-creators-of-marginalized-groups"]

TikTok's automated content reporting system was allegedly abused by online trolls to intentionally misreport content created by users of marginalized groups.

Online Trolls Allegedly Abused TikTok’s Automated Content Reporting System to Discriminate against Marginalized Creators

marginalized groups

misreport content

bias, content, false

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["california-bar's-committee-of-bar-examiners"]

["examsoft"]

["california-bar-exam-takers","flagged-california-bar-exam-takers"]

The proctoring algorithm used in a California bar exam cited a third of thousands of applicants as cheaters, resulting in allegations where exam takers were instructed to prove otherwise without seeing their incriminating video evidence.

Proctoring Algorithm in Online California Bar Exam Flagged an Unusually High Number of Alleged Cheaters

a third

cheaters

bias, content, false

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["tesla"]

["tesla"]

["gilberto-alcazar-lopez","maria-guadalupe-nieves-lopez"]

In 2019, a Tesla Model S driver on Autopilot mode reportedly went through a red light and crashed into a Honda Civic, killing two people in Gardena, Los Angeles.

Tesla Driver on Autopilot Ran a Red Light, Crashing into a Car and Killing Two People in Los Angeles

two people

people

bias, content, false

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["tesla"]

["tesla"]

["tesla-drivers"]

Tesla's Autopilot was shown on video by its owner mistaking the moon for a yellow stop light, allegedly causing the vehicle to keep slowing down.

Tesla's Autopilot Misidentified the Moon as Yellow Stop Light

the vehicle

yellow stop

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763ea343edc875fe63a8a)

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["instagram"]

["instagram"]

["sennett-devermont","beverly-hills-citizens"]

A police officer in Beverly Hills played copyrighted music on his phone when realizing that his interactions were being recorded on a livestream, allegedly hoping the Instagram's automated copyright detection system to end or mute the stream.

California Police Turned on Music to Allegedly Trigger Instagram’s DCMA to Avoid Being Live-Streamed

his interactions

music

bias, content, false

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["fuzhou-zhongfang-marlboro-mall"]

["unknown"]

["fuzhou-zhongfang-marlboro-mall-goers"]

A shopping guide robot deployed by the Fuzhou Zhongfang Marlboro Mall was shown on video allegedly walking to the escalator by itself, falling down, and knocking over passengers, which prompted its suspension.

Robot in Chinese Shopping Mall Fell off the Escalator, Knocking down Passengers

its suspension

suspension

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763e9343edc875fe63a7a)

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["amazon"]

["amazon"]

["amazon-fulfillment-center-workers"]

Amazon’s robotic fulfillment centers have higher serious injury rates.

Amazon’s Robotic Fulfillment Centers Have Higher Serious Injury Rates

higher serious injury rates

higher serious injury rates

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763ea343edc875fe63a85)

[1471]

["brand-safety-tech-firms"]

["none"]

["news-sites"]

Brand safety tech firms falsely claimed use of AI, blocking ads using simple keyword lists.

Brand Safety Tech Firms Falsely Claimed Use of AI, Blocking Ads Using Simple Keyword Lists

blocking

use

bias, content, false

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["university-of-illinois"]

["proctorio"]

["university-of-illinois-students-of-color","university-of-illinois-students"]

Proctorio's remote-testing software were reported by students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for issues regarding privacy, accessibility, differential performance on darker-skinned students.

Proctorio's Alleged Privacy, Accessibility, and Discrimination Issues Prompted Suspension by University of Illinois

differential performance

proctorio

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763ea343edc875fe63a81)

[1466]

["tiktok"]

["tiktok"]

["tiktok-users","tiktok-users-under-18-years-old"]

Videos promoting eating disorders evaded TikTok's automated violation detection system without difficulty via common misspellings of search terms, bypassing its ban of violating hashtags such as "proana" and "anorexia".

TikTok’s Content Moderation Allegedly Failed to Adequately Take down Videos Promoting Eating Disorders

its ban

ban

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763ea343edc875fe63a84)

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["university-of-texas-at-austin's-department-of-computer-science"]

["university-of-texas-at-austin-researchers"]

["university-of-texas-at-austin-phd-applicants-of-marginalized-groups"]

The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Computer Science's assistive algorithm to assess PhD applicants "GRADE" raised concerns among faculty about worsening historical inequalities for marginalized candidates, prompting its suspension.

UT Austin GRADE Algorithm Allegedly Reinforced Historical Inequalities

worsening historical inequalities

suspension

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763ec343edc875fe63a98)

[1513,1514]

["google-maps"]

["google-maps"]

["google-maps-users-traveling-in-sierra-nevada","google-maps-users-traveling-in-the-mountains"]

Lake Tahoe travelers were allegedly guided by Google Maps into hazardous shortcuts in the mountains during a snowstorm.

Google Maps Allegedly Directed Sierra Nevada Travelers to Dangerous Roads amid Winter Storm

hazardous shortcuts

hazardous shortcuts

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763ed343edc875fe63a9f)

[1531]

["ets"]

["ets"]

["uk-ets-past-test-takers","uk-ets-test-takers","uk-home-office"]

International testing organization ETS admits voice recognition as evidence of cheating for thousands of previous TOEIC test-takers that reportedly included wrongfully accused people, causing them to be deported without an appeal process or seeing their incriminating evidence.

ETS Used Allegedly Flawed Voice Recognition Evidence to Accuse and Assess Scale of Cheating, Causing Thousands to be Deported from the UK

an appeal process

appeal process

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763ee343edc875fe63aa8)

[1549]

["bath-government"]

["unknown"]

["paula-knight","bath-officials","uk-public"]

A Bath resident was wrongly fined by the local officials because an automated license plate recognition camera misread the text on her shirt as a license plate number.

Traffic Camera Misread Text on Pedestrian's Shirt as License Plate, Causing UK Officials to Issue Fine to an Unrelated Person

the text

text

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763ec343edc875fe63a94)

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["pony.ai"]

["pony.ai"]

["san-francisco-city-government"]

A Pony.ai vehicle operating in autonomous mode crashed into a center divider and a traffic sign in San Francisco, prompting a regulator to suspend the driverless testing permit for the startup.

California Regulator Suspended Pony.ai's Driverless Testing Permit Following a Non-Fatal Collision

a center divider

center divider

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763e9343edc875fe63a78)

[1449,2651,2705]

["university-of-michigan-hospital"]

["epic-systems"]

["sepsis-patients"]

Epic System's sepsis prediction algorithms was shown by investigators at the University of Michigan Hospital to have high rates of false positives and false negatives, allegedly delivering inaccurate and irrelevant information on patients, contrasting sharply with their published claims.

Epic Systems’s Sepsis Prediction Algorithms Revealed to Have High Error Rates on Seriously Ill Patients

inaccurate and irrelevant information

false negatives

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763ec343edc875fe63a99)

[1515,2197]

["amazon"]

["amazon"]

["people-attempting-suicides"]

Despite complaints notifying Amazon about the sale of various products that had been used to aid suicide attempts, its recommendation system reportedly continued selling them and suggesting their frequently bought-together items.

Amazon Reportedly Sold Products and Recommended Frequently Bought Together Items That Aid Suicide Attempts

suicide attempts

suicide attempts

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763eb343edc875fe63a8c)

[1482]

["facebook","twitter"]

["facebook","twitter"]

["facebook-users-of-small-language-groups","twitter-users-of-small-language-groups"]

Facebook's and Twitter were not able to sufficiently moderate content of small language groups such as the Balkan languages using AI, allegedly due to the lack of investment in human moderation and difficulty in AI-solution design for the languages.

Facebook’s and Twitter's Automated Content Moderation Reportedly Failed to Effectively Enforce Violation Rules for Small Language Groups

the lack

ai

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763ec343edc875fe63a9a)

[1516]

["amazon"]

["amazon"]

["ans-rana","amazon-workers","amazon-delivery-drivers"]

A lawsuit cited Amazon as liable in a crash involving its delivery driver, alleging that Amazon’s AI-powered driver monitoring system pushed drivers to prioritize speed over safety.

Amazon's Monitoring System Allegedly Pushed Delivery Drivers to Prioritize Speed over Safety, Leading to Crash

a crash

crash

year, risk, crash

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[1546,1547,1548]

["target"]

["target"]

["target-customers"]

Target recommended maternity-related items to a family in Atlanta via ads, allegedly predicting their teenage daughter’s pregnancy before her father did, although critics have called into question the predictability of the algorithm and the authenticity of its claims.

Target Suggested Maternity-Related Advertisements to a Teenage Girl's Home, Allegedly Correctly Predicting Her Pregnancy via Algorithm

its claims

target

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763ea343edc875fe63a88)

[1476,1477]

["amazon"]

["amazon"]

["amazon-customers"]

Evidence of the "filter-bubble effect" were found by vaccine-misinformation researchers in Amazon's recommendations, where its algorithms presented users who performed actions on misinformative products with more misinfomative products.

Amazon’s Search and Recommendation Algorithms Found by Auditors to Have Boosted Products That Contained Vaccine Misinformation

misinformative products

misinformative products

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763eb343edc875fe63a8b)

[1481]

["facebook","instagram"]

["facebook","instagram"]

["facebook-users-of-disabilities","adaptive-fashion-retailers"]

Facebook platforms' automated ad moderation system falsely classified adaptive fashion products as medical and health care products and services, resulting in regular bans and appeals faced by their retailers.

Facebook’s Advertisement Moderation System Routinely Misidentified Adaptive Fashion Products as Medical Equipment and Blocked Their Sellers

regular bans

facebook platforms

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763eb343edc875fe63a93)

[1506]

["natural-cycles"]

["natural-cycles"]

["natural-cycles-users","women"]

Some women using the contraceptive app, Natural Cycles, reported unwanted pregnancies, revealing its algorithm's difficulties in mapping menstrual cycles.

Swedish Contraceptive App, Natural Cycles, Allegedly Failed to Correctly Map Menstrual Cycle

unwanted pregnancies

unwanted pregnancies

bias, content, false

ObjectId(625763ed343edc875fe63aa6)

[1544,1545]

["facebook","meta"]

["facebook","meta"]

["rohingya-people","rohingya-facebook-users","myanmar-public","facebook-users-in-myanmar","burmese-speaking-facebook-users"]

Facebook allegedly did not adequately remove anti-Rohingya hate speech, some of which was extremely violent and dehumanizing, on its platform, contributing to the violence faced by Rohingya communities in Myanmar.

Facebook Allegedly Failed to Police Anti-Rohingya Hate Speech Content That Contributed to Violence in Myanmar

the violence

violence

bias, content, false

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[1496,1497]

["scammers"]

["unknown"]

["hong-kong-bank-manager"]

In early 2020, fraudsters reportedly allegedly deepfaked the voice of a company's director, demanding a bank manager in Hong Kong to authorize a $35M transfer.

Hong Kong Bank Manager Swindled by Fraudsters Using Deepfaked Voice of Company Director

the voice

voice

year, own, voice

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["ocado"]

["ocado"]

A collision involving three robots at an Ocado's warehouse in Erith, UK, resulting in a fire but no reports of injuries.

Three Robots Collided, Sparking Fire in a Grocer's Warehouse in UK

A collision

collision

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["tesla"]

["tesla"]

["eric-horvitz","tesla-drivers"]

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.

Tesla Sedan on Autopilot Reportedly Drove Over Dividing Curb in Washington, Resulting in Minor Vehicle Damage

minor damage

road

bias, content, false

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["us-department-of-justice"]

["inmates-of-color"]

Department of Justice’s inmate-recidivism risk assessment tool was reported to have produced racially uneven results, misclassifying risk levels for inmates of color.

Justice Department’s Recidivism Risk Algorithm PATTERN Allegedly Caused Persistent Disparities Along Racial Lines

racially uneven results

uneven results

bias, content, false

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["duke-researchers"]

["duke-researchers"]

["people-having-non-caucasian-facial-features"]

Image upscaling tool PULSE powered by NVIDIA's StyleGAN reportedly generated faces with Caucasian features more often, although AI academics, engineers, and researchers were not in agreement about where the source of bias was.

Image Upscaling Algorithm PULSE Allegedly Produced Facial Images with Caucasian Features More Often

the source

bias

bias, content, false

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["unknown"]

["unknown"]

["amaya-ross","black-students","black-test-takers"]

A Black student's face was not recognized by the remote-proctoring software during check-in of a lab quiz, causing her to excessively change her environments for it to work as intended.

Facial Recognition in Remote Learning Software Reportedly Failed to Recognize a Black Student’s Face

her environments

check

bias, content, false

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["zillow"]

["zillow-offers"]

["zillow-offers-staff","zillow"]

Zillow's AI-powered predictive pricing tool Zestimate was allegedly not able to accurately forecast housing prices three to six months in advance due to rapid market changes, prompting division shutdown and layoff of a few thousand employees.

Zillow Shut Down Zillow Offers Division Allegedly Due to Predictive Pricing Tool's Insufficient Accuracy

division shutdown

ai

bias, content, false

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["black-patients"]

Optum's algorithm deployed by a large academic hospital was revealed by researchers to have under-predicted the health needs of black patients, effectively de-prioritizing them in extra care programs relative to white patients with the same health burden.

Algorithmic Health Risk Scores Underestimated Black Patients’ Needs

Optum's algorithm

optum

bias, content, false

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["tesla"]

["tesla"]

["tesla-drivers"]

Tencent Keen Security Lab conducted security research into Tesla’s Autopilot system and identified crafted adversarial samples and remote controlling via wireless gamepad as vulnerabilities to its system, although the company called into question their real-world practicality. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.

Tesla Autopilot’s Lane Recognition Allegedly Vulnerable to Adversarial Attacks

an issue

vulnerabilities

bias, content, false

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["michal-kosinski","yilun-wang"]

["michal-kosinski","yilun-wang"]

["lgbtq-people","lgbtq-people-of-color","non-american-lgbtq-people"]

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.

Researchers' Homosexual-Men Detection Model Denounced as a Threat to LGBTQ People’s Safety and Privacy

a binary scale

flawed science

bias, content, false

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["microsoft","msn.com"]

["microsoft"]

["jade-thirlwall","leigh-anne-pinnock"]

A news story published on MSN.com featured a photo of the wrong mixed-race person that was allegedly selected by an algorithm, following Microsoft’s layoff and replacement of journalists and editorial workers at its organizations with AI systems.

Microsoft’s Algorithm Allegedly Selected Photo of the Wrong Mixed-Race Person Featured in a News Story

the wrong mixed-race person

race person

bias, content, false

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["facebook"]

["facebook"]

["facebook-users-of-minority-groups","facebook-users"]

Facebook’s hate-speech detection algorithms was found by company researchers to have under-reported less common but more harmful content that was more often experienced by minority groups such as Black, Muslim, LGBTQ, and Jewish users.

Facebook’s Hate Speech Detection Algorithms Allegedly Disproportionately Failed to Remove Racist Content towards Minority Groups

less common but more harmful content

harmful content

bias, content, false

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["giggle"]

["kairos"]

["trans-women","women-of-color"]

A social networking platform, Giggle, allegedly collected, shared to third-parties, and used sensitive information and biometric data to verify whether a person is a woman via facial recognition, which critics claimed to be discriminatory against women of color and harmful towards trans women.

Networking Platform Giggle Employs AI to Determine Users’ Gender, Allegedly Excluding Transgender Women

sensitive information

sensitive information

bias, content, false

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["oregon-state-university"]

["starship-technologies"]

["oregon-state-university","freight-train-crew"]

A Starship food delivery robot deployed by Oregon State University reportedly failed to cross the railroad, becoming stranded, and ending up being struck by an oncoming freight train.

Starship’s Autonomous Food Delivery Robot Allegedly Stranded at Railroad Crossing in Oregon, Run over by Freight Train

the railroad

railroad

bias, content, false

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["cruise"]

["cruise"]

["cruise-vehicles","cruise-driver-employee"]

In San Francisco, an autonomous Cruise Chevrolet Bolt collided with another Cruise vehicle driven by a Cruise human employee, causing minor scuffs to the cars but no human injuries.

Two Cruise Autonomous Vehicles Collided with Each Other in California

minor scuffs

human injuries

bias, content, false

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["unknown"]

["unknown"]

["doctors","covid-patients"]

AI tools failed to sufficiently predict COVID patients, some potentially harmful.

AI Tools Failed to Sufficiently Predict COVID Patients, Some Potentially Harmful

failed

covid patients

bias, content, false

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["uber"]

["uber"]

["uber-drivers"]

Uber launched a new but opaque algorithm to determine drivers' pay in the US which allegedly caused drivers to experience lower fares, confusing fare drops, and a decrease in rides.

Uber Launched Opaque Algorithm That Changes Drivers' Payments in the US

a decrease

confusing fare drops

bias, content, false

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["companhia-do-metropolitano-de-sao-paulo"]

["securos"]

["sao-paulo-metro-users","sao-paulo-citizens"]

A facial recognition program rolled out by São Paulo Metro Stations was suspended following a court ruling in response to a lawsuit by civil society organizations, who cited fear of it being integrated with other electronic surveillance entities without consent, and lack of transparency about the biometric data collection process of metro users.

Facial Recognition Program in São Paulo Metro Stations Suspended for Illegal and Disproportionate Violation of Citizens’ Right to Privacy

a lawsuit

lawsuit

bias, content, false

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["unknown"]

["pasco-residents","pasco-black-students","pasco-students-with-disabilities"]

The Intelligence-Led Policing model rolled out by the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office was allegedly developed based on flawed science and biased data that also contained sensitive information and irrelevant attributes about students, which critics said to be discriminatory.

Predictive Policing Program by Florida Sheriff’s Office Allegedly Violated Residents’ Rights and Targeted Children of Vulnerable Groups

biased data

biased data

bias, content, false

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["facebook"]

["facebook"]

["facebook-users"]

The performance of Facebook’s political ad detection was revealed by researchers to be imprecise, uneven across countries in errors, and inadequate for preventing systematic violations of political advertising policies.

Facebook’s Political Ad Detection Reportedly Showed High and Geographically Uneven Error Rates

systematic violations

systematic violations

bias, content, false

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["unknown"]

["linkedin-users"]

More than a thousand inauthentic LinkedIn profiles using allegedly GAN-generated photos were notified by researchers at Stanford to LinkedIn’s staff, and many of which were removed for violating rules against creating fake profiles and falsifying information.

Fake LinkedIn Profiles Created Using GAN Photos

fake profiles

fake profiles

bias, content, false

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["hackers"]

["unknown"]

["ukrainian-social-media-users","ukrainian-public","volodymyr-zelenskyy"]

A quickly-debunked deepfaked video of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was posted on various Ukrainian websites and social media platforms encouraging Ukrainians to surrender to Russian forces during the Russia-Ukraine war.

Deepfake Video of Ukrainian President Yielding to Russia Posted on Ukrainian Websites and Social Media

the Russia-Ukraine war

ukraine war

bias, content, false

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["cruise"]

["cruise"]

["san-francisco-public","cruise-customers"]

An autonomous Chevy Bolt operated by Cruise was pulled over in San Francisco, and as the police attempted to engage with the car, it reportedly bolted off, pulled over again, and put on its hazards lights on at a point farther down the road.

Cruise Autonomous Taxi Allegedly Bolted off from Police After Being Pulled over in San Francisco

its hazards

hazards lights

bias, content, false

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["tesla"]

["tesla"]

["tesla-owner","vision-jet-owner"]

A Tesla Model Y was shown on video slowly crashing into a Vision Jet in Spokane, Washington, allegedly due to its owner activating the “Smart Summon” feature.

Tesla Owner Activated "Smart Summon" Feature, Causing a Collision with an Aircraft in a Washington Airport

a Vision Jet

feature

bias, content, false

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["malaysian-judiciary","malaysian-courts"]

["sarawak-information-systems"]

["malaysian-convicted-people"]

The AI system used by the Malaysian judiciary which explicitly considered age, employment, and socio-economic data provided sentencing to a drug possession case that was alleged by lawyer to be disproportionately high for the crime committed.

Algorithm Used by the Malaysian Judiciary Reportedly Recommended Unusually High Sentencing to a Drug Possession Case

the crime

crime

bias, content, false

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["airbnb"]

["airbnb","trooly"]

["sex-workers","airbnb-users"]

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.

Airbnb's Trustworthiness Algorithm Allegedly Banned Users without Explanation, and Discriminated against Sex Workers

discriminatory bans

discriminatory bans

bias, content, false

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["facebook"]

["facebook"]

["small-businesses-on-facebook"]

Facebook’s AI mistakenly blocked advertisements by small and struggling businesses, after the company allegedly leaned more on algorithms to monitor ads on the platform with little review from human moderators.

Facebook Mistakenly Blocked Small Business Ads

little review

ai

bias, content, false

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["unnamed-australian-telecommunications-company"]

["unknown"]

["unnamed-australian-telecommunications-company"]

In early 2018, an Australian telecommunications company’s incident management AI excessively deployed technicians into the field, and was allegedly unable to be stopped by the automation team.

Australian Telco’s Incident Management Bot Excessively Sent Technicians in the Field by Mistake, Allegedly Costing Millions

the field

field

bias, content, false

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["scammers"]

["unknown"]

["unnamed-uk-based-energy-firm's-ceo"]

Fraudsters allegedly used AI voice technology to impersonate the boss of a UK-based firm's CEO, demanding a transfer of €220,000 over the phone.

Fraudsters Used AI to Mimic Voice of a UK-Based Firm's CEO's Boss

a transfer

transfer

bias, content, false

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["tinder"]

["tinder"]

["tinder-users-over-30-years-old"]

Tinder’s personalized pricing was found by Consumers International to consider age as a major determinant of pricing, and could be considered a direct discrimination based on age, according to anti-discrimination law experts.

Tinder's Personalized Pricing Algorithm Found to Offer Higher Prices for Older Users

a direct discrimination

direct discrimination

bias, content, false

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["spanish-secretary-of-state-for-security","spanish-ministry-of-interior"]

["spanish-victims-of-gender-violence"]

In Spain, the algorithm that assesses recidivism risk in gender violence, VioGén, have critically underestimated the level of risk in a series of cases that ended in homicide of women and children since its first deployment.

Algorithm Assessing Risk Faced by Victims of Gender Violence Misclassified Low-Risk Cases, Allegedly Leading to Homicide of Women and Children in Spain

gender violence

risk

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["unknown"]

["korean-public"]

A South Korean political candidate created a deepfake avatar which political opponents alleged to be fraudulent and a threat to democracy.

Korean Politician Employed Deepfake as Campaign Representative

a threat

threat

bias, content, false

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["wechat"]

["wechat"]

["black-wechat-users"]

The Chinese platform WeChat provided an inappropriate and racist English translation for the Chinese term for “black foreigner” in its messaging app.

WeChat’s Machine Translation Gave a Racist English Translation for the Chinese Term for “Black Foreigner”

“black foreigner

black foreigner

bias, content, false

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["tesla"]

["tesla"]

["road-engineer"]

In Taiwan, a Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot mode whose driver did not pay attention to the road collided with a road repair truck; a road engineer immediately placed crash warnings in front of the Tesla, but soon after got hit and was killed by a BMW when its driver failed to see the sign and crashed into the accident.

A Road Engineer Killed Following a Collision Involving a Tesla on Autopilot

the accident

accident

bias, content, false

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["openai"]

["openai"]

["minority-groups","underrepresented-groups"]

OpenAI's image-generation-from-natural-language-description model, DALL-E 2, was shown to have various risks pertaining to its use, such as misuse as disinformation, explicit content generation, and reinforcement of gender and racial stereotypes, which were acknowledged by its developers.

Images Generated by OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 Exhibited Bias and Reinforced Stereotypes

racial stereotypes

misuse

bias, content, false

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["appriss"]

["appriss"]

["american-physicians","american-pharmacists","american-patients-of-minority-groups","american-patients"]

NarxCare's algorithm assessing a patient’s overdose risk allegedly did not undergo peer-reviewed validation studies, and considered sensitive data with high risk of biases towards women and Black patients such as experience of sexual abuse and criminality.

NarxCare’s Risk Score Model Allegedly Lacked Validation and Trained on Data with High Risk of Bias

sexual abuse

high risk

bias, content, false

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["cruise"]

["cruise"]

["cruise-vehicle"]

A BMW Sedan reportedly made an illegal left turn, causing a minor collision but no injuries with a Cruise autonomous vehicle (AV) operating in autonomous mode.

BMW Sedan Made a Prohibited Left Turn, Colliding with a Cruise Autonomous Vehicle

a minor collision

minor collision

bias, content, false

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["bytedance"]

["bytedance"]

["instagram-users","snapchat-users","american-social-media-users"]

ByteDance allegedly scraped short-form videos, usernames, profile pictures, and descriptions of accounts on Instagram, Snapchat, and other sources, and uploaded them without consent on Flipagram, TikTok’s predecessor, in order to improve its “For You” algorithm's performance on American users.

ByteDance Allegedly Trained "For You" Algorithm Using Content Scraped without Consent from Other Social Platforms

short-form videos

flipagram

bias, content, false

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["google-docs"]

["google-docs"]

["google-docs-users"]

Google’s “inclusive language” feature prompting writers to consider alternatives to non-inclusive words reportedly also recommend alternatives for words such as “landlord” and “motherboard,” which critics said was a form of obtrusive, unnecessary, and bias-reinforcing speech-policing.

Google’s Assistive Writing Feature Provided Allegedly Unnecessary and Clumsy Suggestions

non-inclusive words

words

bias, content, false

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["salta-city-government"]

["microsoft"]

["salta-teenage-girls","salta-girls-of-minority-groups"]

In 2018, during the abortion-decriminalization debate in Argentina, the Salta city government deployed a teenage-pregnancy predictive algorithm built by Microsoft that allegedly lacked a defined purpose, explicitly considered sensitive information such as disability and whether their home had access to hot water.

Argentinian City Government Deployed Teenage-Pregnancy Predictive Algorithm Using Invasive Demographic Data

explicitly considered sensitive information

sensitive information

bias, content, false

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["naver"]

["naver"]

["naver-customers"]

The Korean Fair Trade Commission (FTC) imposed a 26.7B KRW on Naver for manipulating shopping and video search algorithms, favoring its own online shopping business to boost its market share.

Korean Internet Portal Giant Naver Manipulated Shopping and Video Search Algorithms to Favor In-House Services

manipulating

krw

bias, content, false

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["extinction-rebellion-belgium"]

["unknown"]

["shophie-wilmes","belgian-government"]

A deepfake video showing the Belgium’s prime minister speaking of an urgent need to tackle the climate crises was released by a climate action group.

Climate Action Group Posted Deepfake of Belgian Prime Minister Urging Climate Crisis Action

an urgent need

deepfake video

bias, content, false

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["zhihu"]

["sangfor-technologies"]

["zhihu-employees","chinese-tech-workers"]

The firing of an employee at Zhihu, a large Q&A platform in China, was allegedly caused by the use of a behavioral perception algorithm which claimed to predict a worker’s resignation risk using their online footprints, such as browsing history and internal communication.

A Chinese Tech Worker at Zhihu Fired Allegedly via a Resignation Risk Prediction Algorithm

the use

resignation risk

bias, content, false

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["tesla"]

["tesla"]

["tesla-drivers"]

The “rolling stop” functionality within the “Aggressive” Full Self Driving (FSD) profile that was released via a Tesla firmware update was recalled and disabled.

Tesla Disabled “Rolling Stop” Functionality Associated with the “Aggressive” Driving Mode

The “rolling stop” functionality

rolling stop

bias, content, false