Benefits

Name: Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database
Creator: Peter H. Vartanian
Published: 2026-10-20
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Benefit type by depth

Benefit type	1	2	3	4	5	depth unassessed	Total
I Reduced Task Timea person	44	13				12	69
II Reduced Task Costa person	2	3				6	11
III Increased Scalabilityan organization	2	4	2			4	12
IV Improved Task Accuracyan organization	10	68	5	4		86	173
V Product Personalizationa person	1	1				2	4
VI Increased Creativitya person	2	4				1	7
VII Improved Knowledge Discoveryan organization	16	29	4			25	74
VIII Improved Customer Retentionan organization		1					1
IX Improved Physical Healtha person	8	36	44	14	11	15	128
X Increased Diversitysociety							0
XI Increased Inclusionsociety	4	4				6	14
XII Improved Environmental Sustainabilitysociety	4	10	1			13	28
XIII Repetitive Task Automationan organization	13	4				6	23
XIV Reduced Riskan organization	4	39	5	5	3	27	83
XV Improved Learninga person	1	22				9	32
XVI Improved Accessibilitysociety	7	25	8			17	57
XVII Improved Organizational Efficiencyan organization	33	16				27	76
XVIII Increased Product Revenuean organization		6					6
XIX Improved Public Reputationan organization							0
XX Increased Product Safetya person	5	7	6	1	5	37	61
XXI Reduced Carbon Emissionssociety	5	5	2			5	17
XXII Increased Access to Educationsociety	1	3				3	7
XXIII Reduced Violencesociety	3	23	5	3		4	38
Total	165	323	82	27	19	305	921

Benefit types

For a person

69records

I Reduced Task Time

Reducing the time it takes an individual to perform a discrete task.

Financial

11records

II Reduced Task Cost

Reducing the financial costs to an individual to perform a discrete task.

Financial

4records

V Product Personalization

Customization or personalization of a product/service that increases usability or user value.

Psychological

7records

VI Increased Creativity

Increased access to new ideas, or innovative ways of creating products/services.

Psychological

128records

IX Improved Physical Health

Improved physical health outcomes or information about bodily health.

Physical Health

32records

XV Improved Learning

Improved educational outcomes or experiences including faster learning rates or academic achievements.

Opportunity

61records

XX Increased Product Safety

Improved safety features, detection mechanisms, or failsafes.

Physical Health

For an organization

12records

III Increased Scalability

Enabling a process to efficiently scale to additional users, sectors, or business units.

Operational

173records

IV Improved Task Accuracy

Increased accuracy or performance for a discrete task.

Customer Satisfaction

74records

VII Improved Knowledge Discovery

Easier and more accurate access to information necessary to accomplish a task.

Operational

1records

VIII Improved Customer Retention

Increased probability that a customer continues to use a product/service.

Customer Satisfaction

23records

XIII Repetitive Task Automation

Automating highly inefficient repetitive tasks, particularly those that contribute to harmful bottlenecks or bloated bureaucracy.

Operational

83records

XIV Reduced Risk

Reduction in potential for harm, especially potential legal harm.

Legal

76records

XVII Improved Organizational Efficiency

Improvements to overall operational efficiency, including helping facilitate cross team processes, reducing organizational friction, or reducing redundancies.

Operational

6records

XVIII Increased Product Revenue

Direct increases in product/service revenues or contract growth rates over time.

Financial

0records

XIX Improved Public Reputation

Improved social standing and reputation with core stakeholders.

Reputational

For society

0records

X Increased Diversity

Improved diversity of communities or groups of people.

Community

14records

XI Increased Inclusion

Increased acceptance of people with diverse backgrounds.

Community

28records

XII Improved Environmental Sustainability

Improved environment including lowered carbon emissions, reduced waste, or using recycled materials.

Environmental

57records

XVI Improved Accessibility

Increased accessibility in society for people with disabilities.

Freedom

17records

XXI Reduced Carbon Emissions

Reduction in energy usage, water consumption, or direct carbon emission outputs.

Environmental

7records

XXII Increased Access to Education

Improved access to educational services, institutions, or programs.

Environmental

38records

XXIII Reduced Violence

Reduction in criminal activities or physically harmful incidents.

Justice

BriefsClose

Crash warning and automatic braking cut front-to-rear crashes by 49%
In a final rule of 9 May 2024, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) required automatic emergency braking on new light vehicles. The requirement applies in the United States from September 2029.
Drug found with a knowledge graph lowered COVID-19 deaths in a trial
On 4 February 2020 BenevolentAI researchers reported in The Lancet that their knowledge graph had helped them identify a possible treatment for COVID-19. It was baricitinib, an arthritis drug.
Braking systems that detect pedestrians protect people outside the car
In a study published online on 11 June 2026, M. D.
An Apple Watch called for help after a runner’s heart stopped
A case report in Resuscitation Plus, published on 12 August 2026, concerns a 69-year-old man who collapsed in ventricular fibrillation while running alone. He was hidden behind a hedge on a dead-end road.[1] On detecting the fall, his Apple Watch automatically called emergency services on 112 and alerted his emergency contacts.
Cars that brake for people on foot hit fewer of them
Jessica Cicchino of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety studied automatic emergency braking that detects pedestrians. She measured what it does for people on foot in the United States.
In a Taiwan trial, fewer patients died when AI flagged high-risk ECGs
A trial in Taiwan tested alerts to physicians from an AI analysis of electrocardiograms. Its primary endpoint was death from any cause within 90 days.
Embrace wristband alerts a mother, and she calls paramedics
In November 2016 a 26-year-old teacher from Fulton, Missouri, had an epileptic seizure. It left her unresponsive and not breathing.[1] Her Embrace wristband detected the seizure and alerted her mother, who called paramedics.
Ghost Murmur may have located a downed F-15E officer in Iran
The rescue of a downed American airman in Iran is established by the White House briefing of 6 April.[1] The claim that an AI-assisted quantum sensor located him comes from two anonymous sources in the New York Post. President Trump later told the Post that the tool was important but did not explain how it worked.[2] Physicists interviewed by the Post and by Scientific American questioned the capability as described.[3] The contribution attributed to Ghost Murmur remains unverified.
Lynxight alerts a Perth lifeguard to a sinking swimmer, who is rescued
On 10 June 2025, a man suffered a medical episode and sank in the outdoor pool at Stirling Leisure - Inglewood in Perth. Lynxight is a camera system built to detect swimmers in distress.
Software flags a nurse’s brain bleed, and she returns to full-time work
A 57-year-old nurse suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm. Her symptoms began on 2 February 2024.[1] According to her surgeon, software at Baptist Health's Marcus Neuroscience Institute flagged the bleeding on her scan and alerted clinicians.[2] The clinicians sealed the aneurysm with coils delivered through a catheter.
A man with a rare blood disorder became well enough for a transplant
Public money now goes to the search for new uses of old drugs. A patient's case is told in support of that spending.[1] In January 2024 a 37-year-old man from Renton, Washington, was critically ill with POEMS syndrome.
Fewer sepsis patients die after COMPOSER alerts UC San Diego nurses
COMPOSER is a deep-learning model that flags possible sepsis to nurses. It went live in two emergency departments at UC San Diego Health on 7 December 2022.
Mayo credits AI with finding a woman's ruptured brain aneurysm fast
A woman's recovery at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, is a story that Mayo tells about its use of AI in stroke care. Her brain aneurysm ruptured on 24 February 2022.
Transpara helps Swedish breast screening find more cancers
Lund University researchers ran the MASAI trial within the Swedish national screening program. Between 12 April 2021 and 7 December 2022, they randomly assigned 105,934 women in southwest Sweden to Transpara-supported screening or to a control group.
Automatic braking softens the impact for pedestrians in Japan
H. Inada of the University of Tokyo and M.
Smartwatch ECG captures a 165 bpm tachycardia, and Emory diagnoses VT
Authors in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta published a case report online on 12 March 2025. They describe a 64-year-old man with a replaced aortic valve.
Vara MG helps German screening radiologists find more breast cancers
PRAIM is the largest of the non-randomized implementation studies in a 2026 meta-analysis of AI in screening mammography. Its result for the safety net appears in a second 2026 meta-analysis.[1] Across 12 German screening sites, radiologists who read with Vara MG found 6.7 cancers per 1,000 women.
Insight MMG as a third reader finds more breast cancers in Stockholm
The ScreenTrustCAD study measured what an AI reader adds where breast screening already uses two radiologists.[1] Karolinska Institutet researchers ran it at Capio Sankt Göran Hospital in Stockholm. From 1 April 2021 to 9 June 2022, Lunit's Insight MMG ran in the background on the screening mammograms of 55,581 women.
Smart wristwatch prompts a patient's return to hospital for an embolism
Drynan, Leroux and Zywiel work in the orthopedic surgery division at Toronto Western Hospital. In a case report published online on 8 June 2021, they credit a smart wristwatch with prompting a patient's readmission to the emergency department.
Exomiser ranks gene variants and helps diagnose rare disease in England
The 100,000 Genomes Project ran a preliminary national study in rare disease. From May 2016 through April 2019, the study returned results to the Genomic Medicine Centers of the English National Health Service.
Meta's suicide alert brings Meerut police to a man within 8 minutes
Police said that Meta sent a suicide alert at 6:53 pm on 7 June 2026 about a 25-year-old Meerut man's Instagram video. By their account, a Sardhana police team reached him within eight minutes.
Meta flags a suicide post, and Raebareli police arrive in 12 minutes
The Raebareli rescue preceded a similar rescue in Meerut in June 2026. Both took place under an arrangement in which Meta has alerted the Uttar Pradesh Police since 2022.[1] On 29 March 2026 an 18-year-old posted a suicide video on Instagram.
Facial recognition helps agents identify 311 probable child victims
Operation Renewed Hope ran from 17 July 2023 into early August at the Cyber Crimes Center of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). U.S.
Vyntra's AI risk models may have stopped a USD 500,000 ATM fraud
Vyntra, formerly NetGuardians, lists about two dozen short case studies at unnamed banks on its “Fraud Cases” page.[1] In one, Vyntra says that its AI risk models flagged the unusual timing and frequency of ATM withdrawals. Vyntra also says that fraudsters were arrested while attempting to withdraw USD 500,000 (KSh 58 million).
ASENA flags a car at Yüksekova carrying 52.5 kg of explosives
On 20 March 2022 officers of the Hakkari Provincial Police Directorate stopped a car at a checkpoint in Yüksekova, Turkey. Work on the directorate's ASENA analysis program had flagged the car.
WeChat Pay alert helps a man keep 190,000 yuan from a suspected scammer
On 14 December 2021 WeChat announced an “anti-fraud customer service reminder” for WeChat Pay. WeChat's example was a man in Yunnan, identified only by his surname.[1] ChinaZ reported that the man had met a woman on a video platform.
SARUAV detects an unconscious man in tall grass, and rescuers save him
The Bieszczady Mountain Rescue Service called this the first find in Poland of a missing person using a drone and SARUAV.[1] The missing man was 65. He had Alzheimer's disease and had left home in Cergowa a day after a stroke.
Spotlight may have led to a missing child's recovery in weeks
This case rests on the word of one speaker. In a WIRED report of 19 June 2019, Thorn's chief executive, Julie Cordua, said that a California officer had run a missing child's photo through Spotlight.
Medicare withholds $4.41 billion in suspected fraudulent payments
The Department of Justice reported on 30 June 2025 that its analysts and their collaborators had detected anomalous Medicare billing in Operation Gold Rush. According to the department, health agencies stopped all but about $41 million of about $4.45 billion scheduled for payment.
AI may have helped Abu Dhabi surgeons separate twins joined at the head
On 5 June 2026 PureHealth reported that surgeons at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi had separated Nigerian twins. More than 60 clinicians took part in four staged procedures.
Kent reports fewer homeless households after targeted support
Maidstone Borough Council uses an AI-enabled Xantura platform to flag households for proactive homelessness support. In a presentation published on 4 November 2024, a Kent County Council presenter reports that fewer than 1% of flagged households that received support became homeless.
On CT, PANDA detects pancreatic cancers that standard care missed
PANDA is a deep-learning model that identifies pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma on non-contrast CT. In a study published in Nature Medicine on 20 November 2023, the authors report that PANDA exceeded mean radiologist sensitivity by 34.1% and specificity by 6.3%.
An early resistance warning helped doctors change a woman’s antibiotic
A 78-year-old woman at China Medical University Hospital in Taichung developed severe pneumonia during a prolonged admission. Within an hour, the hospital's Intelligent Anti-Microbial System predicted from a bacterial mass spectrum that her Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolate resisted ceftazidime.
Zasocitinib clears psoriasis in more patients than deucravacitinib
In the LATITUDE Atlas phase 3 trial, 36.5% of 301 participants on zasocitinib reached complete skin clearance at week 16. On deucravacitinib, 13.9% of 303 participants did so.
Mother's AI query prompts a rare-disease diagnosis in a 22-month-old
In a case report published on 16 January 2026, Hajebian and Friel describe a 22-month-old girl with skull defects. The treating physician did not initially recognize the defects on her computed tomography scan.
DeepSeek-R1 flags familial Mediterranean fever, which gene tests confirm
A 34-year-old man of Egyptian origin had recurrent inflammatory attacks from early childhood. Despite almost three decades of symptoms, extensive investigations had not established a diagnosis.
ENAD-DET-01 helps Seoul endoscopists find more adenomas
A randomized trial has tested ENAD-DET-01, a polyp detector from the South Korean company Ainex. At two Seoul hospitals between May 2023 and April 2025, 998 patients were assigned at random to colonoscopy with or without the system.
STAR finds two motile sperm, and a couple has a girl after 19 years
Columbia University Fertility Center now charges $3,000 for a STAR analysis.[1] The first pregnancy that the center reported with STAR came from a couple who had tried for 19 years to have a child. The husband, who had non-obstructive azoospermia, gave a sample that had been judged sperm-free on manual examination.
A smartwatch alert leads a 34-year-old to treatment for a weakened heart
Cardiologists in Thessaloniki published a paper on 19 December 2025. They note that premature atrial contractions are a major source of false-positive alerts for atrial fibrillation on smartwatches.[1] In this case, an alert led to the diagnosis of a heart condition that clinicians could treat.
Smartwatch readings lead a father and daughter to a long QT diagnosis
A man came to the cardiology clinic of University Medical Centre Mannheim, Germany, because of readings from his smartwatch. The visit led to a diagnosis.
A 76-year-old spots a change on his Apple Watch ECG and has a bypass
In a case report published on 30 January 2024, Koster and colleagues at Amsterdam UMC describe a 76-year-old man with no symptoms. On rare occasions and out of interest, he recorded an electrocardiogram (ECG) in lead I on his Apple Watch right after exercise.
Waymo's driverless cars draw fewer insurance claims than human drivers
As driverless ride-hailing expands, insurance claims are one way to compare it with human driving. In a peer-reviewed paper of 14 July 2024, Swiss Re and Waymo authors reported zero bodily-injury claims over 3,868,506 driverless miles.
GI Genius lifts adenoma detection in VA colonoscopy units
The Veterans Health Administration tested computer-aided polyp detection in routine colonoscopy at scale.[1] It assigned facilities at random to receive a device for polyp detection. The device is listed in the trial registry as Medtronic's GI Genius.
An Apple Watch records low oxygen, and doctors find a pulmonary embolism
A 50-year-old woman who had recently had COVID-19 was referred to the hospital of Oita University in Yufu, Japan, for breathlessness. Four days before admission, a primary care physician had measured her oxygen saturation at 94 to 98%.
Smartwatch flags a racing heart, and follow-up care finds lung cancer
Clinicians at St George's Healthcare NHS Trust and East Surrey Hospital in England published a case report on 4 January 2022. They describe how a smartwatch alert led indirectly to a diagnosis of lung cancer.
Fitbit flags a racing heart, and doctors treat ventricular tachycardia
In October 2021 a 55-year-old man in Jamshedpur, India, had symptoms at work. His Fitbit Sense showed an irregular rhythm at 164 beats per minute.
Camera alerts bring help sooner to residents with dementia who fall
Between May and August 2018, staff in six California facilities that provide memory care received real-time alerts from SafelyYou Guardian. The system uses AI to detect falls on video.
ALERTCalifornia AI may have helped contain the Trotter Fire
The Trotter Fire, west of Tehachapi in Kern County, California, started on 14 August 2023. It was held to 52 acres.
Nigeria uses machine-learning poverty maps to target COVID-19 cash aid
Nigeria had no urban social registry. Its National Social Safety Nets Coordinating Office therefore built the Rapid Response Register for a government-funded cash transfer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How a record is madeClose

... which is why this database exists: to help others benefit from AI that has already helped someone else.

Edited by Peter H. Vartanian.

Admission

An AI benefit is a good that a person, an organization or society has received, or is intended to receive, to which an identifiable AI system contributed. An AI-related topic alone is insufficient. The editor’s guide sets out how records are written and graded. Reported outcomes and intended benefits have distinct labels. Every record has a beneficiary shape, a depth color, and a confidence fill. Gray means that depth is unassessed.

Kinds of event

A record is one of five kinds: a benefit created or restored, a specific harm prevented, a protective response whose prevention is unproven, an aggregate result measured across many people or cases, or a program described as a whole. An aggregate result is measured, as in a trial or an official count of results. A program is described without a measured result, as with a launch or a service in use. The kind of record does not determine its depth or confidence.

Depth

Each beneficiary group that benefited is rated from 1 to 5, the depth of the benefit for that group: 1, a convenience, or time or cost saved, with life otherwise unchanged; 2, a measurable improvement in a result or a capability, such as a test score or a crop yield; 3, a lasting change, a capability restored or a risk removed; 4, a serious harm averted or a serious condition resolved in time; 5, a life or a livelihood preserved, or a change documented across a population. Every rating has a reason. Depth describes the magnitude of the benefit that the source reports; it does not establish that the claim is independently verified. Aggregate outcomes and gains in capability can be rated. Intended benefits remain explicit, and a group stays gray when the extent of its benefit cannot be established. Corrections appear in the revision history.

The system's part

What the system contributed to the benefit is assessed separately from whether the benefit occurred, and may be left unrated. A system that was present is not thereby responsible.

A system’s name, base model, adapted variant, interface, hosting, and settings are assessed separately. A supported inference appears with its basis in an editor’s note. Later documentation may identify a plausible model, but does not establish that it was available or used on the event date. The importance of a task does not establish its reasoning settings.

Evidence and confidence

Source review traces each finding to the original work that produced it. Different claims in one record may have different primary sources. An additional source must contribute evidence, verification, a correction, or a material limitation. Repetition does not constitute corroboration. A primary source may have an interest in the result, so origin and independence are assessed separately. When the original cannot be inspected, the record identifies the intermediary and the limitation.

Each source identifies its kind and its author's relationship to the system: maker, deployer, beneficiary, evaluator, independent author, or unassessed. An evaluator's role alone establishes neither independence nor a conflict of interest.

Only sources that support the benefit determine its evidence grade. Among independent sources, a finding by an external body gives the grade found. External bodies are regulators, courts, auditors, inspectors general, ombudsmen, parliamentary and public inquiries, accident investigators, health technology assessment agencies, evidence clearinghouses and independent evaluation offices. A peer-reviewed study, clinical case report, or research report gives studied. A descriptive report, news report, preprint, or dataset gives reported. The strongest qualifying source determines the grade. Without one of these sources, the grade is claimed. This includes accounts from interested parties, even when published as studies, and sources whose independence is unassessed.

The fill is solid for found and studied, hatched for reported, and outlined for claimed. These correspond to high, medium, and low confidence. Contrary evidence, procedural documents, and background material remain in the sources without raising the benefit's grade.

Source notes describe authorship, independence, and any documented conflicts of interest. They identify gaps in the cited evidence. Inferences are labeled.

Briefs

Briefs by Peter H. Vartanian examine the evidence and its gaps. Their dates appear in the revision history.

Replication

Each entry includes fields for the conditions that produced the benefit and the conditions that would have to hold again. Subsequent attempts appear with their setting, model version when reported, and outcome. An outcome that the cited sources do not establish remains unresolved.

Comparable incidents

Each record is also linked to its broad benefits: the O*NET work activities that the AI performed, or helped people perform, to produce the benefit. Broad benefits lists all 41 with their records.

Exploring the records

Records can be filtered and viewed as a list, table, map, timeline, or table of benefit types. The view and the filters are kept in the address, so that a view can be shared.

Candidate reviews

The review log gives the reasons for excluding a candidate. Unfavorable results remain visible when they bear on a reported benefit. Multiple sources about the same benefit belong to one entry. Intended benefits, aggregate results, and weak evidence can qualify.

Dates

A record distinguishes an observed event date from the publication date, the date through which a source says that its information is current, or the date on which the source was checked. Month-only dates display the month without an invented day. The timeline uses that date only when an event or source supports it. Dates of access and revision do not determine the order.

Newest follows event or source dates. When a record's date basis has not been assessed, a dated source must support the same date before the record appears in Newest. That date is labeled as a source publication date. Source-check and revision dates do not determine the order. Records without a supported date remain in the full database.

Coverage

Counts on this site describe the database's coverage. They do not measure how beneficial AI is, and a trend in records is a trend in reporting.

The map in the Gazetteer draws Natural Earth's 1:110m countries with de facto boundaries in an equirectangular projection. A country's circle has an area in proportion to its records; a route runs from the country where a system was made to the country where the benefit happened. Records that state no country are not on the map.

Not admitted

Excluded candidates and their reasons. An unresolved AI contribution can warrant further evidence. Intended benefits, aggregate results, and weak evidence can qualify.

Duplicate of a record

Face2Gene, consumer wearables, speech neuroprostheses and the brain-spine interface AIBD-0037
These systems were not searched again because the database already records them. Face2Gene is № 0037, the Apple Watch and other wearables are № 0021 to № 0027, the speech neuroprostheses are № 0002 to № 0005, and the brain-spine interface is № 0001. A new entry would repeat those records.
OECD AI Monitor entry on Casey Harrell's UC Davis speech neuroprosthesis AIBD-0002
This OECD AI Monitor entry covers the press coverage of June 2026 (Washington Post, 15 June; MIT Technology Review, 16 June) on the BrainGate2 speech neuroprosthesis from UC Davis that Casey Harrell uses. That case is already № 0002, and its record cites the NEJM paper of 2024 and the Nature Medicine paper of 2026 on long-term use.
OECD AI Monitor entry on Meta's self-harm alert and Meerut police in eight minutes AIBD-0010
This OECD AI Monitor entry describes the same event as № 0010. Meta alerted the Social Media Center of the UP Police at 6:53 pm on 7 June 2026, and Sardhana police reached the home of the 25-year-old within eight minutes. The entry draws on PTI reports carried by Rediff, ETV Bharat, The Hans India and LatestLY.
OECD AI Monitor entry on Mia flagging Barbara's 6 mm cancer at NHS Grampian AIBD-0062
This OECD AI Monitor entry describes the same event as № 0062: Mia flagged a 6 mm cancer that NHS Grampian radiologists had missed during the GEMINI evaluation. The entry draws on the BBC report of 21 March 2024 and a University of Aberdeen release. The Aberdeen release of 10 March 2026 has since been added to the evidence for № 0062.
OECD AI Monitor entry on TrailGuard AI and the 39 poachers arrested in Similipal AIBD-0102
This OECD AI Monitor entry describes the same arrests of 39 poachers in Similipal as № 0102. Its sources are The New Indian Express, the Times of India and PTI, dated 20 and 21 February 2026. These reports date the entry of the poachers to the night of Thursday, 19 February. The account of the Field Director gives the night of Wednesday, 18 February.
OECD AI Monitor entries on Indian Railways AI elephant detection AIBD-0009
Ten OECD AI Monitor entries on elephant detection by Indian Railways, dated from March 2023 to February 2026, repeat two cases that the database already records. These are the intrusion-detection case in Assam, № 0009, and the thermal-camera case at Madukkarai, № 0101.
OECD AI Monitor entry on Tesla Autopilot avoiding a wrong-way driver AIBD-0109
This OECD AI Monitor entry, titled "Tesla Autopilot Prevents and Fails to Prevent Collisions: Contrasting Incidents," matches a case that is already recorded as № 0109. That case concerns a Tesla Model S and a wrong-way driver in Cabarrus County.
OECD AI Monitor entry on Tesla Autopilot braking as an oak fell in Storm Dennis AIBD-0108
This OECD AI Monitor entry, titled "Tesla Autopilot Prevents Fatalities During Storm Dennis by Emergency Braking," is the case of a Tesla Model X and a falling oak tree. That case is already recorded as № 0108.
Tesla Autopilot Involved in Both Crash and Harm Avoidance Incidents (OECD Monitor 2020-06-08-c7f5)
This OECD AI Monitor entry combines two events: the crash into an overturned truck in Taiwan, which is a harm listed as incident 218 in the AI Incident Database, and a video of a car avoiding a "pig." Reports in Electrek (8 June 2020) and the Daily Star (9 June 2020) show that the video is the swerve of Kenneth Van Hoesen around a wild boar in Belgium on 30 May 2020. That event is written up from a separate Monitor entry and has no case number yet.
AI System Enables Major Criminal Gang Bust in Chile's 'Operación Influencer' (OECD Monitor 2023-05-12-99fe) AIBD-0233
№ 0233 already records Operación Influencer (11 May 2023), the Fiscal Heredia model and the ten detentions. That record also cites this OECD AI Monitor entry.
Tesla Autopilot Saves Driver During Heart Attack Emergency (OECD Monitor 2024-04-16-ba4d) AIBD-0139
This is the same drive as № 0139: The owner's Tesla Model Y on FSD v12 took him to a VA emergency room on 2 April 2024. In the Bosnian and Croatian reports behind this entry (Raport.ba, 16 April 2024, citing a post by Elon Musk of 11 April), the story becomes a 20 km drive in Virginia during a heart attack. The record for № 0139 already notes these garbled syndicated versions.
Police use facial recognition AI to catch county lines drug dealers (OECD Monitor 2024-07-02-ee42) AIBD-0232
№ 0232 already records the facial recognition match by Cheshire Constabulary to an 18-year-old, the stop with a 19-year-old on 17 May 2024 and the sentences of 1 July 2024. That record also cites this OECD AI Monitor entry.
AI System in Japan Prevents Suicides at Train Stations and Commercial Buildings (OECD Monitor 2026-06-01-db16) AIBD-0234
№ 0234 already records the camera-analysis system by Asilla at about 40 stations and buildings in Japan and the two suicide interventions that Kyodo reported on 1 June 2026. This OECD AI Monitor entry covers the same event with the same sources: Kyodo, the Straits Times, Anadolu and syndicated copies.
Paralyzed Man Controls Computer with Neuralink Chip, Spurs Safety and Privacy Worries (OECD Monitor 2025-03-23-f7ad) AIBD-0263
№ 0263 already records the Neuralink N1 implant that Noland Arbaugh received in January 2024 and his control of a cursor and a chess game by thought. This OECD AI Monitor entry covers the same person, system and event. The Monitor labels the entry an incident because of its material on malfunction and privacy, and that material describes no separate benefit.

No AI system took part

Spelling by a completely locked-in ALS patient (Chaudhary et al. 2022)
The authors of the Nature Communications paper state that they did not implement a multichannel decoding algorithm. The patient selected letters through firing-rate thresholds with auditory neurofeedback. The only support-vector machine belonged to an earlier eye-tracking system, so no machine-learning system produced the benefit.
ChatGPT as manuscript editor for a missed-pneumothorax case report (Brown 2023)
ChatGPT served only to draft and edit the Cureus paper about a delayed diagnosis of pneumothorax at Jersey General Hospital. The AI content of the paper is a proposal of how AI could have helped. No AI system had a role in the care of the patient.
BirdCast and the lights-out schemes of Raleigh and Bird Safe Philly
Raleigh's Lights Out (27 August 2026) follows a fixed seasonal schedule from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. and lists BirdCast only as a public resource. The Bird Safe Philly page has no mention of BirdCast alerts and no collision results, so no AI output changed either decision. Houston's Lights Out Nights is the case that BirdCast drove, and it is № 0103.
Titian catheter-robot ablation at Shaoxing People's Hospital (OECD AI Monitor entry)
The only event in this OECD AI Monitor entry is a Titian robot ablation on a 64-year-old woman with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation at Shaoxing People's Hospital, reported by Xinhua Zhejiang on 13 December 2025. The surgeon steered the teleoperated catheter robot from a console, and the report has no mention of AI, autonomy or inference. The CA-GPT item in the entry is a comparative preprint with 96 patients and reports no event. The third source concerns an unrelated neurosurgical robot in Fushun.
Wandercraft Atalante exoskeleton walking for people with complete paraplegia
Independent studies exist, including a 2026 trial with 11 participants at Nimes University Hospital in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. The exoskeleton walks on trajectories that nonlinear optimization computes in advance, and a hybrid zero dynamics controller tracks them. No machine learning or other AI is involved.
Estonia's small-claims 'robot judge'
The Estonian Ministry of Justice stated on 16 February 2022 that it does not develop an AI robot judge to replace the human judge in small-claims or general court proceedings. There is no system and no outcome to verify.
Rajesh Dandotiya bank-fraud intervention
Human bank staff made the intervention in the Rajesh Dandotiya case. No AI system was involved, so there is nothing to record.
Singapore Police Force Project A.S.T.R.O. scam alerts
The Singapore Police Force says that Project ASTRO uses robotic process automation to send SMS alerts to scam victims (MHA Minister's Awards page, 29 October 2024). The Straits Times reported on 16 April 2023 that officers and OCBC staff analyzed fund flows and used the tool to send SMS messages in bulk. The S$442 million that police say has been averted since April 2023 is a total for automated messaging and does not measure model-based detection.
AI-Enabled Halo System Prevents Serious Injury in Formula 1 Crash (OECD Monitor 2021-09-12-c119)
The Halo is a titanium bar over the cockpit that the FIA made compulsory from 2018. Neither Wikipedia nor the DER STANDARD report of 13 September 2021, in which Wolff says "Der Halo hat definitiv Lewis' Leben gerettet," has any mention of a sensor, software or an AI component. The sources that the Monitor lists are match reports that call the Halo a safety system. The label "AI-enabled" comes from the Monitor alone.

Nothing to write up

AI embryo selection or AI newborn screening changing an identifiable patient's care
No peer-reviewed case report was found in which AI embryo selection or AI newborn screening changed the care of an identifiable patient. There was no system or case to examine.
An individual patient helped by a sepsis early-warning alert
No individual case of a patient helped by a sepsis early-warning alert was found in a source independent of the developer. Searches returned only cohort studies and implementation stories. The cohort evidence for TREWS is № 0066.
ChatGPT run after the fact on a necrotizing otitis externa case (Pugliese 2023)
ChatGPT-3 and ChatGPT-4 were run on the Milan case only after the diagnosis had been made. Neither model suggested the correct diagnosis, and neither had any part in the care of the patient. The result is a failed test of the models, so there is no benefit to record.
A Garmin watch alert leading to a diagnosis
No peer-reviewed case report was found of a Garmin alert that led to a diagnosis. Bogár et al. (2024) searched for Garmin cases and found none, and case-report searches in Europe PMC returned no qualifying case.
A WHOOP alert leading to a benefit
No peer-reviewed case report was found of a WHOOP alert that led to a benefit. Searches returned only validation studies and vendor blog posts.
AI-detected fast radio bursts at CHIME in 2024
Searches returned only studies that reclassified the CHIME/FRB catalogs with machine learning. The searches found no AI-detected burst at CHIME in 2024 with independent confirmation, so there is no system or event to record. The Berkeley neural network that detected pulses from FRB 121102 is № 0018.
An AI painting attribution accepted by a museum
No statement in which a museum accepts an AI-based attribution was located, and the candidate included no named system, painting or museum. The other half of the candidate, Ithaca, is № 0017. The one named attribution case, the de Brécy Tondo in Bradford, came up under another theme and is № 0276.
AI identification of the language of the Voynich manuscript
No peer-reviewed acceptance was found of any AI identification of the language of the Voynich manuscript. No system, source or case was examined.
Machine-learning attribution of a work to Bach
No machine-learning attribution of a work to Bach was found that is peer-reviewed and accepted by scholars. No system, source or case was examined.
Sign-language recognition or translation deployed for deaf users
No deployed system for sign-language recognition or translation with an independently evaluated outcome for deaf users was found. The authors of a 2026 systematic review in JMIR on such systems for health-care communication with deaf people report that every included system was at the stage of development and testing. Authors whom they contacted confirmed that none had been deployed or commercialized.
AI interception of a fraud or scam with a named victim's loss prevented
Searches returned only aggregate statistics from industry and regulators on authorized push payment fraud. No court or regulator record was found of a specific AI interception with a named victim, and the candidate included no named system, victim or event. The cases of AI fraud interception now in the database, such as the TIAA case (№ 0210), came from other candidates.
An individual automatic emergency braking intervention that prevented a crash
No regulator, court or peer-reviewed record was found of an individual intervention by automatic emergency braking in which the crash did not occur. The NTSB documents that were located, on Uber in Tempe in 2018 and Ford BlueCruise in 2026, concern failures or disabled braking. The aggregate IIHS study is № 0008, and the Tesla incidents recorded from press reports (№ 0108 and № 0109) came from other candidates.
UIC trial of AI trespass detection on railways
No UIC document naming an AI detection system or a trial result could be located. The safety pages on uic.org list the TreSP network, the TRESPAD events and project names such as AI4SAFEBEHAVE with no results, and the UIC page on trespass and suicide returned a 404 error. The only identifiable deployment is the one by ProRail, which is recorded separately as № 0309.
An evacuation or emergency decision taken on an AI flood or nowcast forecast
No statement was found in which an authority documents an evacuation or emergency decision taken on an AI flood or nowcast forecast. The candidate included no named system, place or event of its own, and the cases that it pointed to are already № 0031 (flood alerts in Bihar) and № 0092 (skill evaluation in Mali). Records of action on AI forecasts from other candidates include the anticipatory cash payments in Kogi (№ 0095) and the activation by the Philippine Red Cross (№ 0098).

A harm, not a benefit

Netherlands SyRI welfare-fraud risk scoring
SyRI is a documented harm. The District Court of The Hague invalidated the system in 2020, so it was set aside and was not examined as a benefit.

AI contribution to the benefit not established

LGA-005 - Dorset council: the housing service digital transformation journey
In the procurement assessment of the council and the service documents of Huume, the housing improvements come from configurable workflows, policy calculations, portals and dashboards. None of the reviewed sources ties an identified AI function to those gains. Dorset's separate pilots of meeting summaries and transcription do not show that AI contributed to this housing case.

DataClose

Data

The dataset is one file, records.json, released under CC BY 4.0. Three flat tables are derived from it: records.csv, one row per record; ratings.csv, one row per beneficiary group rated; and echoes.csv, one row per attempt to make a benefit happen again. The schema describes every field. Each record is also available on its own page as JSON.

Feed of new and revised records

Dataset editions are archived at Harvard Dataverse as numbered versions of one dataset, with a manifest of file checksums. Each record’s citation names its version and the edition that holds it.

Research tables

Measured outcomes: CSV or JSON. Taxonomy mappings: CSV or JSON. The research schema defines these tables.

Record profiles

Field definitions and symbols.

Download the public record profiles, field dictionary, and collection profiles. The coverage table lists each public field and its status for every record.

Fructus

AI outcomes, in money. A separately curated collection of financial claims, with original currencies, periods, recipients, comparisons, and supporting sources. JSON and CSV.

Counting

One system, one setting, one benefit is one record. A benefit reported in several sources is one record with several sources. A benefit that happened again elsewhere is an echo on the original record, not a new record.

Fields

id: A stable identifier.
title, summary, date_observed, account: What happened, in one line and in one paragraph, and when.
brief: A brief from Peter H. Vartanian: his reading of the evidence and its gaps, where one has been written, with its sidenotes in brief_notes.
headline, metric: A short title that adds no fact (asterisks around a name set it in italics), and the AI's quantified effect, copied verbatim from the summary or account (null when the record states no number).
date_basis, date_precision: Whether date_observed identifies an event, source publication, source information cutoff, or source access. Precision is day, month, year, or unassessed. A partial date uses the first day of its month or year only as a sorting anchor.
benefit_status: Reported, intended, mixed, or unclear. This is separate from evidence confidence.
category: The kind of record: benefit created, harm prevented, protective response (prevention unproven), aggregate result (measured across many people or cases), or program (described as a whole, without a measured result).
unexpected, purpose: Whether the benefit was what the system was built to do, and what it was built to do.
system, model_version, developer, deployer, location, domain, segment: The system, its version where known, who made and ran it, and where it was used.
sector: One of 14 sectors, in the CSV. The domain and segment give the detail.
benefit_type, taxonomy_note: The benefit type from the taxonomy, with a note where the fit is loose.
unrated_because: For an event with no depth, the reason in a clause: the good is denied, or the AI's part is undocumented.
ratings: For each beneficiary group that benefited, a depth from 1 to 5 or null for unrated, and the reason.
ai_role: What the system contributed, assessed separately, or marked not assessed.
evidence, confidence: The sources include their kind, citation, link, date, a short quote, and author relationship: maker, deployer, beneficiary, evaluator, independent author, or a relationship that remains unassessed. Only sources that support the benefit determine confidence (found, studied, reported, or claimed). Shade (high, medium, or low) corresponds to a solid, hatched, or outlined fill. The method explains these grades. An evaluator's role alone establishes neither independence nor a conflict of interest.
comparator: Better than what: the baseline the benefit is measured against (against), the figure without and with the AI (before, after), whether the source measured or assumed the difference (basis), and the passage that states it (quote, url). Null when no comparison is recorded. The record profile distinguishes an unassessed question from a reviewed absence.
later: What happened after the first report: persisted, scaled, challenged, reversed, withdrawn, litigated or unknown, with the date, a note, and the passage that states it. A challenge disputes a claim without establishing that it was reversed. Unknown means that no later outcome is established in the record.
value: A financial benefit stated by a source: the amount verbatim with its currency, what it measures, who gains or pays, whether it is an estimate, and the supporting passage.
claim_status, claim_basis: The strongest source's authority, the cited evidence by kind and author, and its limitations. Both are computed from the evidence.
replication: The conditions that produced the benefit, the conditions that must hold again, and the echoes (replications): each attempt to repeat it, with setting, model version, and outcome.
work_activities, broad_benefits: The broad benefits: the O*NET work activities that the AI performed, or helped people perform, toward the benefit, the main one first. The JSON gives their O*NET identifiers, and the CSV gives their names. They come from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
source_collection, source_entry: The imported collection and the stable entry key that AIBD assigns within it. These entry keys are not publisher-assigned identifiers.
registry_ids: Trial registration numbers, where a record rests on a registered trial.
revisions: Every change, with its date, source, and editor.

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Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database is made by Peter H. Vartanian. Write to peter.vartanian@icloud.com.

The dataset and this site are released under CC BY 4.0. Benefit types and beneficiary groups follow Trustible's benefits taxonomy.

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Crash warning and automatic braking cut front-to-rear crashes by 49%
Reported benefit

In U.S. police-reported crash data, forward collision warning with automatic emergency braking cut front-to-rear crashes by 49%. Automatic braking cut rear-end crash rates for pickups by 43%.
front-to-rear crashes were reduced by 49%

Safety and rescuepublished 16 November 20224 publicationsfound by an external bodymeasured comparisonpersisted
Drug found with a knowledge graph lowered COVID-19 deaths in a trial
Reported benefit

Fewer deaths

In RECOVERY, 12% of patients receiving baricitinib died within 28 days, compared with 14% receiving usual care alone. [2]

Faster recovery

In ACTT-2, patients receiving remdesivir recovered in a median of 7 days with baricitinib, compared with 8 days with a placebo. [5]

Science12 February 202113 publicationsfound by an external bodymeasured comparisonchallenged
Automatic braking with warnings halved the rate of rear-end crashes
Reported benefit

In a study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, warning alone, low-speed braking and both together cut crashes into the car in front by 27%, 43% and 50%.
cut the rate of crashes into the car in front by 27%, 43% and 50%

Safety and rescue20144 publicationsfound by an external bodymeasured comparisontaken to court
Braking systems that detect pedestrians protect people outside the car
Reported benefit

In Australian and New Zealand injury crashes from 2016 to 2023, cars with pedestrian-detecting AEB had 17% fewer pedestrian or cyclist collisions than cars without AEB.
a 17% lower rate of pedestrian or cyclist collisions (95% CI 5% to 27%)

Otherpublished 11 June 20261 publicationindependently studiedmeasured comparison
An Apple Watch called for help after a runner’s heart stopped
Reported benefit

Fall Detection on an Apple Watch Series 10 called emergency services and alerted emergency contacts when a 69-year-old runner collapsed in cardiac arrest, and he made a full neurological recovery.
began cardiopulmonary resuscitation about 6–7 minutes after the collapse

Health1 January 20265 publicationsindependently studiedassumed comparisonpersisted
Cars that brake for people on foot hit fewer of them
Reported benefit

In an IIHS study of US police-reported crashes, pedestrian-detecting automatic emergency braking cut pedestrian crash risk by 25% to 27%. It cut injury crash risk by 29% to 30%.
a 25% to 27% lower pedestrian crash risk and a 29% to 30% lower pedestrian injury crash risk

Otherpublished 14 May 20222 publicationsindependently studiedmeasured comparison
In a Taiwan trial, fewer patients died when AI flagged high-risk ECGs
Reported benefit

In a Taiwan trial of 15,965 patients, a neural network flagged high-risk electrocardiograms for physicians, and 90-day mortality was 3.6% versus 4.3% with usual care.
3.6% versus 4.3%

Health30 April 20224 publicationsindependently studiedmeasured comparison
Audis with Traffic Jam Assist had fewer property and injury claims
Reported benefit

HLDI found that 2017 Audi Q7 and A4 vehicles with Traffic Jam Assist and related systems had 18% fewer property damage liability claims and 27% fewer bodily injury liability claims.
18% fewer property damage liability claims

Safety and rescuepublished April 20221 publicationindependently studiedmeasured comparison
BMWs with Driving Assistance Plus drew fewer insurance claims
Reported benefit

HLDI found that claim frequencies for 2013-17 BMWs with Driving Assistance Plus were 7.3% lower for collision, 26.1% lower for property damage and 29.2% lower for injury liability.
26.1% lower for property damage

Safety and rescuepublished December 20192 publicationsindependently studiedmeasured comparisonchallenged
Subarus with EyeSight had 35% fewer claims linked to pedestrians
Reported benefit

HLDI and IIHS researchers found that Subarus with the camera-based EyeSight system had a statistically significant 35% reduction in injury-only liability claims, a proxy for pedestrian crashes.
a statistically significant 35% reduction

Safety and rescuepublished June 20191 publicationindependently studiedmeasured comparison
Front Automatic Braking cuts rear-end crashes of GM vehicles by 43%
Reported benefit

IIHS found that GM vehicles with Front Automatic Braking and Forward Collision Alert were in 43% fewer rear-end striking crashes and 64% fewer such crashes with injuries.
43% fewer rear-end striking crashes

Safety and rescuepublished September 20181 publicationindependently studiedmeasured comparison
Embrace wristband alerts a mother, and she calls paramedics
Reported benefit

An Embrace wristband detected a seizure that stopped Morgan McGrath's breathing and alerted her mother, who called paramedics. IEEE Spectrum reports that McGrath, 26, of Fulton, Missouri, survived.

HealthNovember 20164 publicationsindependently studiedmeasured comparisonpersisted
Ghost Murmur may have located a downed F-15E officer in Iran
Reported benefit

Two anonymous sources credit the CIA's Ghost Murmur, quantum sensing paired with AI, with locating a downed F-15E officer in Iran. CBS reports that CIA technology pinpointed him and names no tool.
one rescued airman, with the claimed AI contribution unverified

Defense5 April 20266 publicationsindependently reportedchallenged
Apple Watch Crash Detection calls 911 after a truck flips into a river
Reported benefit

On 22 February 2026 near Batavia, Ohio, a 19-year-old's truck flipped into the Little Miami River. Clermont County officials say that her Apple Watch Crash Detection called 911, and crews freed her.

Safety and rescue22 February 20265 publicationsindependently reportedassumed comparisonpersisted
Lynxight alerts a Perth lifeguard to a sinking swimmer, who is rescued
Reported benefit

Lynxight, a camera system at a Perth pool, alerted a lifeguard's smartwatch to a man who had sunk unconscious. Lifeguards and a swimmer rescued him, and he recovered fully.

Safety and rescue10 June 20254 publicationsindependently reportedassumed comparisonpersisted
Software flags a nurse’s brain bleed, and she returns to full-time work
Reported benefit

Software, apparently Viz.ai, detected a nurse’s brain bleed and alerted her doctors. After treatment, the nurse returned to full-time nursing.

Health2 February 20245 publicationsindependently reportedassumed comparisonpersisted
A man with a rare blood disorder became well enough for a transplant
Reported benefit

A consulting physician had considered three drugs for Joseph Coates’s POEMS syndrome, and Every Cure’s early repurposing system scored all three highly. Coates responded and later reached remission.
he responded within one or two weeks

ScienceJanuary 202411 publicationsindependently reportedmeasured comparisonpersisted
Fewer sepsis patients die after COMPOSER alerts UC San Diego nurses
Reported benefit

After UC San Diego Health deployed COMPOSER, a deep-learning model that alerts nurses to sepsis, mortality was 9.49%, against a modeled 11.39% without it.
1.9 percentage points

Health7 December 20225 publicationsindependently reportedassumed comparisonpersisted
Mayo credits AI with finding a woman's ruptured brain aneurysm fast
Reported benefit

Mayo Clinic says that unnamed AI algorithms let its care team find a woman's ruptured aneurysm in minutes. The woman had surgery and recovered.

Health24 February 20222 publicationsclaimed by the partiesassumed comparisonpersisted
Jewel patch defibrillator ended eight of nine life-threatening rhythms
Reported benefit

In a study at 29 US sites that FDA reviewed, the Jewel patch defibrillator gave 0.357 inappropriate shocks per 100 patient-months. It converted 8 of 9 shockable rhythms with one shock.
0.357 inappropriate shocks per 100 patient-months

Healthpublished 30 April 20251 publicationfound by an external bodymeasured comparison
Transpara helps Swedish breast screening find more cancers
Reported benefit

In the MASAI trial of 105,934 women, Transpara-supported screening found 6.4 cancers per 1,000 against 5.0 with standard double reading and cut screen reading by 44.2%.
a detection rate of 6.4 per 1,000 against 5.0 per 1,000

Health7 December 20226 publicationsfound by an external bodymeasured comparison
Veterans flagged by REACH VET attempt suicide less but die as often
Reported benefit

The Veterans Affairs office that runs REACH VET studied the veterans that its suicide-risk model flagged. They had fewer suicide attempts and admissions and no change in deaths.
documented suicide attempts (-0.05, interval -0.06 to -0.03)

Safety and rescueMarch 20178 publicationsfound by an external bodymeasured comparisonpersisted
Automatic braking softens the impact for pedestrians in Japan
Reported benefit

In Japanese police data for 2016 to 2019, AEB on six best-selling car models was linked to 20% lower odds of fatal or serious injury for struck pedestrians. Cyclists showed no clear change.
20% lower odds of a fatal or serious injury (adjusted odds ratio 0.80, 95% CI 0.64 to 0.996)

Otherpublished 10 May 20251 publicationindependently studiedmeasured comparison
Smartwatch ECG captures a 165 bpm tachycardia, and Emory diagnoses VT
Reported benefit

A smartwatch ECG function of an unnamed brand recorded a 165 bpm wide-complex tachycardia during palpitations, and cardiologists diagnosed ventricular tachycardia and implanted a defibrillator.
recorded a 165 bpm wide-complex tachycardia during palpitations

Healthas of 16 July 20242 publicationsindependently studiedassumed comparison
Vara MG helps German screening radiologists find more breast cancers
Reported benefit

Across 463,094 women at 12 German screening sites, radiologists who used Vara MG found 6.7 cancers per 1,000 against 5.7 without it, with no rise in recalls.
found 6.7 cancers per 1,000 against 5.7 without it

HealthFebruary 20233 publicationsindependently studiedmeasured comparison
Insight MMG as a third reader finds more breast cancers in Stockholm
Reported benefit

In Stockholm, Lunit's Insight MMG read 55,581 mammograms beside two radiologists, and the three together found 269 cancers against 250 by the radiologists alone.
the three together found 269 cancers against 250 by the radiologists alone

Health9 June 20224 publicationsindependently studiedmeasured comparison
Fitbit shows a rising resting heart rate, and doctors find vasculitis
Reported benefit

A woman in Zurich saw in her Fitbit Alta HR app that her resting heart rate had risen from about 55 to about 75 beats per minute. The trend led to an early diagnosis of large vessel vasculitis.
resting heart rate had risen persistently from about 55 to about 75 beats per minute

Healthpublished 28 February 20221 publicationindependently studiedassumed comparisonpersisted
Smart wristwatch prompts a patient's return to hospital for an embolism
Reported benefit

Orthopedic surgeons at Toronto Western Hospital report that a patient's smart wristwatch, of an unnamed brand, prompted readmission for a pulmonary embolism after surgery.

Healthpublished 8 June 20211 publicationindependently studied
Exomiser ranks gene variants and helps diagnose rare disease in England
Reported benefit

In a pilot of England's National Health Service, Exomiser ranked candidate variants for 2,183 families. A quarter of probands got a genetic diagnosis, and a quarter of those were actionable at once.
Genetic diagnoses were found in 25% of probands, rising to 35% for monogenic disorders

HealthMay 20164 publicationsindependently studiedmeasured comparisonexpanded
Meta's suicide alert brings Meerut police to a man within 8 minutes
Reported benefit

After Meta alerted police to a 25-year-old man's video on Instagram, officers in Meerut reached his home within eight minutes. His condition improved after treatment in hospital.
a Sardhana team reached his home within eight minutes

Safety and rescue7 June 20267 publicationsindependently reportedpersisted
Meta flags a suicide post, and Raebareli police arrive in 12 minutes
Reported benefit

Meta's system for detecting and reviewing suicide risk flagged an 18-year-old's Instagram post. Raebareli police reached him within 12 minutes, and he was treated after taking rat poison.
A police team reached his home within 12 minutes

Safety and rescue29 March 20268 publicationsindependently reportedmeasured comparisonpersisted
Hanoi traffic police trace a lost 78-year-old on AI cameras
Reported benefit

Hanoi police traced a lost 78-year-old on AI traffic cameras on 15 December 2025. A passer-by found him at 3 a.m. the next day and took him home.

Safety and rescue16 December 20257 publicationsindependently reportedassumed comparisonexpanded
Train crew brake for about 60 elephants as an AI system flags the herd
Reported benefit

On 16 October 2024 Northeast Frontier Railway's AI-based Intrusion Detection System alerted the crew of the Kamrup Express, who also saw about 60 elephants crossing in Assam and braked.
saved 414 elephants in 2023 and 383 up to 16 October 2024

Environment16 October 20247 publicationsindependently reportedmeasured comparisonexpanded
Tesla software may have driven a sick owner 13 miles to a hospital
Reported benefit

By his own uncorroborated account on X, Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v12 drove its owner 13 miles to a VA emergency room at 2 a.m. on 2 April 2024.
drove its owner 13 miles to a VA emergency room

Safety and rescue2 April 20247 publicationsindependently reportedassumed comparisonchallenged
Facial recognition helps agents identify 311 probable child victims
Reported benefit

U.S.-led investigators credited facial recognition, reported as Clearview AI, and AI image enhancement for leads in a 2023 operation that made 311 probable identifications of child abuse victims.
311 probable identifications of previously unknown victims, 14 positive contacts

Public sector4 August 20235 publicationsindependently reportedassumed comparisonexpanded
Vyntra's AI risk models may have stopped a USD 500,000 ATM fraud
Reported benefit

Vyntra credits its AI risk models with blocking payments of USD 7,500 to CHF 1,000,000. It also credits them with stopping a USD 500,000 (KSh 58 million) ATM fraud that ended in arrests.
fraudsters were arrested while attempting to withdraw USD 500,000 (KSh 58 million)

Financepublished 4 April 20223 publicationsindependently reported
ASENA flags a car at Yüksekova carrying 52.5 kg of explosives
Reported benefit

The Turkish police's ASENA analysis program flagged a car at Yüksekova on 20 March 2022. Officers found 52.5 kg of explosives, which, the interior minister said, were bound for Istanbul.
133 packets, 52.5 kg, of factory-made explosive

Public sector20 March 20228 publicationsindependently reportedtaken to court
WeChat Pay alert helps a man keep 190,000 yuan from a suspected scammer
Reported benefit

WeChat says that its WeChat Pay anti-fraud reminder put a Yunnan man in touch with customer service. An agent advised him to cancel a 190,000 yuan transfer to a “goddess” whom he had met online.
avoided a loss of 190,000 yuan

Financepublished 14 December 20215 publicationsindependently reportedassumed comparisonpersisted
SARUAV detects an unconscious man in tall grass, and rescuers save him
Reported benefit

SARUAV, software that uses convolutional neural networks, detected an unconscious 65-year-old man in tall grass on drone images after more than 24 hours, and mountain rescuers retrieved him alive.
After 4 h 31 min of analysis the system detected him and returned his coordinates

Safety and rescue29 June 20217 publicationsindependently reportedmeasured comparisonexpanded
Spotlight may have led to a missing child's recovery in weeks
Reported benefit

In April 2019 Thorn's Spotlight, using Amazon facial recognition, matched a missing child's photo to online sex ads. Thorn's chief executive said that the child was recovered within weeks.
the child was recovered within weeks

Public sectorApril 20192 publicationsindependently reportedpersisted

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