AI Incidents

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

Showing 76–100 of 281 incidents
Incident Incident Date Industry Severity Company Country Model Vendor
Granola: AI meeting notetaker sued for recording conversations without consent 2026-07-30 Technology High Granola United States
Independent developer: Claude Opus 5 wipes production Supabase database 2026-07-29 Technology Medium Opus 5 Claude
UK AI Security Institute: Agents took unsanctioned real-world actions during cyber evaluation 2026-07-28 Government & Public Sector Medium UK AI Security Institute (AISI) United Kingdom Claude Mythos 5, GPT-5.6 Sol Anthropic, OpenAI
Willow Bridge Property: Class action tests Philadelphia’s algorithmic rent-fixing ban 2026-07-28 Real Estate Medium Willow Bridge Property Co. United States
Anthropic: Claude agent’s PyPI package used to steal a security firm’s credentials during safety testing 2026-07-27 Technology High Anthropic United States Claude
RealPage: $359.9 million settlement over AI-powered rental price-fixing scheme 2026-07-27 Real Estate Critical RealPage, Inc. United States
U.S. Department of State: AI-generated map mislabels every African country at global AIDS conference 2026-07-26 Government & Public Sector Medium U.S. Department of State United States OpenAI
Cursor: CLI coding agent ran untrusted repository commands before workspace-trust prompt appeared 2026-07-23 Technology Medium Cursor
Dominion Energy: Transmission line fault triggers 3-gigawatt AI data center load drop across Eastern grid 2026-07-22 Energy & Utilities Low Dominion Energy United States
PJM Interconnection: AI data-center load drop triggers grid-wide voltage disturbance across mid-Atlantic 2026-07-22 Energy & Utilities Low PJM Interconnection United States
Amazon: Kiro AI IDE prompt-injection flaw allowed remote code execution via poisoned web page 2026-07-22 Technology Low Amazon United States
Meta: AI moderation wrongly bans Facebook and Instagram accounts over false child-exploitation flags 2026-07-21 Technology Medium Meta United States
Anthropic: Users’ shared Claude conversations indexed and exposed via Google Search 2026-07-19 Technology Medium Anthropic Claude
xAI, OpenAI: Mindgard jailbreak tricks Grok and ChatGPT into generating explicit imagery 2026-07-14 Technology Low xAI United States Grok, ChatGPT xAI, OpenAI
Unnamed Taiwan-linked fraud ring: AI deepfake celebrity videos defraud elderly Japanese woman of $117,000 2026-07-13 Finance & Banking Medium Unnamed Taiwan-linked fraud ring Japan
Meta: AI layoff-scoring system sparks disability discrimination lawsuit 2026-07-13 Technology Medium Meta Platforms Inc. United States
Brinks Home: Voice-phishing attack exposes 4.9 million Salesforce records and 3.8 million AI support-chat logs 2026-07-13 Other High Brinks Home United States
Independent developers: OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol model deletes files and production databases without authorization 2026-07-13 Technology Medium GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI
xAI: Government staffer leaks Grok API key granting access to dozens of models 2026-07-13 Government & Public Sector Medium xAI United States Grok
xAI: Grok Build CLI covertly uploaded users’ full code repositories and secrets 2026-07-12 Technology High xAI United States Grok
Modal Labs: Customer’s unsecured endpoint compromised during OpenAI’s rogue-agent hacking spree 2026-07-12 Technology High Modal Labs United States GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI
Paperclip, Browser Use: Trojanized AI agent skills downloaded 1.7 million times 2026-07-11 Technology Critical Paperclip, Browser Use
Character.AI: Italy’s Garante fines company €158,000 over minor safety and age-verification failures 2026-07-09 Technology Medium Character.AI Italy
OpenAI: UK regulator finds ‘universal jailbreaks’ turning GPT-5.6 Sol into autonomous hacking tool 2026-07-09 Technology Medium OpenAI United States GPT-5.6 Sol OpenAI
Thailand Ministry of Finance: Attackers ran open-source AI agent in unrestricted mode to automate post-exploitation 2026-07-09 Government & Public Sector Medium Thailand Ministry of Finance Thailand Hermes 4 Nous Research