AI Incidents

A tracked record of real-world incidents where AI systems caused or were involved in harm.

Showing 401–425 of 470 incidents
Incident Incident Date ↓ Industry ↕ Severity ↕ Company ↕ Country ↕ Model Vendor
Waymo: Self-driving vehicle strikes child near elementary school 2026-01-23 Transportation & Logistics Critical Waymo United States — —
Cursor: Allowlist bypass flaw could let prompt injection trigger arbitrary code execution 2026-01-23 Technology Low Cursor United States — —
U.S. Department of Justice: Confidential informant’s AI deepfake evidence leads to wrongful indictment 2026-01-21 Government & Public Sector High U.S. Department of Justice United States — —
Unnamed Swiss entrepreneur: AI voice-clone scam impersonating business partner costs millions of francs 2026-01-21 Other High Unnamed Swiss entrepreneur Switzerland — —
Xsolis: Phishing attack exposes 1.4 million patient records at healthcare AI vendor 2026-01-20 Healthcare High Xsolis United States — —
Eightfold AI: Job applicants sue AI hiring platform over hidden background-check-style profiles 2026-01-20 Technology Medium Eightfold AI, Inc. United States — —
ComfortDelGro: Self-driving shuttle strikes road divider in Singapore despite human takeover 2026-01-17 Transportation & Logistics Low ComfortDelGro Singapore — —
Anthropic: Fourth disclosed hacking incident — early Claude Opus 4.6 breaches a real external system during a January evaluation 2026-01-15 Technology Medium Anthropic United States Opus 4.6 Claude
Microsoft: ‘Reprompt’ prompt-injection flaw enabled single-click Copilot data theft 2026-01-15 Technology Low Microsoft United States — —
Character.AI: Kentucky becomes first state to sue AI chatbot company over child safety failures 2026-01-09 Technology High Character Technologies / Character.AI United States — —
OpenAI: ‘ZombieAgent’ zero-click flaw let attackers exfiltrate data via Deep Research agent 2026-01-08 Technology Low OpenAI United States — OpenAI
Opendoor: $39 million settlement over misrepresented AI home-pricing algorithm 2026-01-08 Real Estate High Opendoor Technologies Inc. United States — —
AITOPIA impersonators: Fake AI Chrome extensions stole ChatGPT and DeepSeek conversations from 900,000 users 2026-01-06 Technology Medium AITOPIA — — OpenAI, DeepSeek
Alibaba: Research AI agent covertly mined crypto and tunneled out of its training environment 2025-12-31 Technology Medium Alibaba China ROME (internal research model) —
Instacart: Ends AI-powered differential pricing tests after investigation finds 23% price gaps 2025-12-22 Retail & E-commerce Medium Instacart United States — —
Amazon: AI coding agent Kiro deletes production environment, causes 13-hour AWS outage 2025-12-15 Technology High Amazon United States — —
Government of Mexico: Claude Code jailbroken to exfiltrate 195 million records 2025-12-15 Government & Public Sector Critical Government of Mexico Mexico GPT-4.1 Claude, OpenAI
Stephen Brigandi, Tim Murphy: Oregon Attorneys Sanctioned $110,204 Over AI-Fabricated Citations 2025-12-12 Other High Stephen Brigandi, Tim Murphy United States ChatGPT OpenAI
Bunnings: ‘Ask Bunnings AI’ chatbot gives customer illegal electrical wiring instructions 2025-12-06 Retail & E-commerce Low Bunnings Australia — —
Southern Cross Austereo: AI-written news bulletin falsely names journalist as armed fugitive 2025-12-05 Media & Entertainment Medium Southern Cross Austereo Australia — —
Independent user: Google’s Antigravity AI coding agent deletes entire hard drive while clearing a cache 2025-12-05 Other Medium — Greece Gemini 3 Google
Unnamed startup: Browser AI agent leaks confidential M&A bidder and price to a rival in cold email 2025-11-28 Technology Low Unnamed startup — — —
Figure AI: Former safety chief sues, says humanoid robots are strong enough to ‘fracture a human skull’ 2025-11-21 Technology Critical Figure AI United States — Figure
Victoria Goldiee: Freelance journalist’s AI-fabricated articles retracted by five publications 2025-11-19 Media & Entertainment Medium Victoria Goldiee — — —
Anthropic: Claude-run vending machine gives away inventory, loses over $1,000 2025-11-15 Technology Low Anthropic United States Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude Sonnet 4.5 Claude