AI engineering glossary · AI ethics law product
What is AI incident?
AI incident: An event where the development or use of an AI system led to, or nearly led to, harm, such as discriminatory outcomes, safety failures, privacy breaches or serious misinformation. Organisations track and learn from incidents, and public databases catalogue them.
AI incident: an example
A chatbot exposes another customer's order details in a reply, and the team logs it as an incident, fixes the retrieval bug and informs affected users.
Related terms
- AI Incident Database
- Post-market monitoring
- Data breach notification
- Red teaming
More AI ethics law product terms
- AI Incident Database
- AI risk assessment
- Algorithmic bias
- Algorithmic impact assessment
- Algorithmic recourse
- Anonymization
- Automated decision-making
- Automation bias
Where you learn it
AI incident is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.