AI Incidents: Analysis and Trends

The rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) inevitably introduces new risks and challenges. As part of the initiative at the OECD AI Policy Observatory (oecd.ai), we have developed a comprehensive system to monitor AI-related incidents and hazards reported in global mainstream media on a daily basis. The system, publicly available at https://oecd.ai/incidents, is widely utilized by the international policy and research community. This presentation details the OECD’s multi-level framework for analyzing AI incidents, covering the formal OECD definitions of incidents and hazards, the methodology for data collection, and the underlying system architecture. Furthermore, we provide a detailed analysis of the collected data trends. A key finding reveals that while the absolute volume of reported AI incidents is increasing, the relative incidence rate (normalized against the total volume of detected AI-related events) remains stable.