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AI Incident Database

For the first time ever, OpenAI has released a rough estimate of how many ChatGPT users globally may show signs of having a severe mental health crisis in a typical week. The company said Monday that it worked with experts around the world to make updates to the chatbot so it can more reliably recognize indicators of mental distress and guide users toward real-world support.

In recent months, a growing number of people have ended up hospitalize

Fraudsters are already using deepfake technology to clone the image and voice of presidential election candidate Heather Humphreys in fake investment videos circulating online.

Bank of Ireland is warning consumers to watch out for more of these adverts, mainly originating via Meta platforms, over the coming weeks.

The video falsely portrays Heather Humphreys endorsing a high-return investment scheme, with the content entirely fabricated using AI-driven voice and image cloning.

Nicola Sadlier, Head of Fraud at Bank of Ireland, said: “This is deeply concerning. We are witnessing an ongoing sp

There is at least one thing artificial intelligence is not ready to replace.

The humble hunting regulation booklet.

Earlier this month, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game issued a warning to hunters that they should not rely on AI to interpret the state’s hunting and fishing regulations, and that game wardens had encountered people in the field who had been fed the wrong information by AI.

Roger Phillips, a spokesperson for Idaho Fish and Game, said Friday that the incident that pushed the agency to issue a warning came in southeast Idaho, where a waterfowl hunter was caught hunting a da

Two federal judges in New Jersey and Mississippi admitted this month that their offices used artificial intelligence to draft factually inaccurate court documents that included fake quotes and fictional litigants --- drawing a rebuke from the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"I've never seen or heard of anything like this from any federal court," Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said in a Senate floor speech Monday.

The committee announced Thursday that the judges, Henry T. Wingate of the Southern District of Mississippi and Julien Xavier Neals of the District of New Jersey, admitted that

An artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student's bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.

Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him.

"At first, I didn't know where they were going until they started walking toward me with guns, talking about, 'Get on the ground,' and I was like, 'What?'