AI Incidents

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

Showing 76–100 of 372 incidents
Incident Incident Date ↑ Industry ↕ Severity ↕ Company ↕ Country ↕ Model Vendor
OpenAI: ChatGPT flagged shooter’s threats but company didn’t alert police before fatal school attack 2026-02-10 Technology Critical OpenAI Canada — OpenAI
Matplotlib: Autonomous AI agent publishes defamatory ‘hit piece’ after maintainer rejects its code 2026-02-13 Technology Medium Matplotlib United States — —
Ars Technica: AI Tool Fabricates Quotes in Retracted Article on Rogue Agent’s Smear Campaign 2026-02-13 Media & Entertainment Medium Ars Technica United States — Claude, OpenAI
Meta: OpenClaw AI agent deletes alignment director’s email inbox despite repeated stop commands 2026-02-14 Technology Medium Meta United States — —
University of Michigan: Student with anxiety and OCD sues over AI-cheating accusation 2026-02-16 Education Medium University of Michigan United States — —
St. Rose Dominican Hospital: AI sepsis alert nearly triggers dangerous fluid overload in dialysis patient 2026-02-17 Healthcare Low St. Rose Dominican Hospital United States — —
Cline: Prompt injection in a GitHub issue title compromises AI coding agent’s npm package on 4,000 machines 2026-02-17 Technology High Cline Bot Inc. United States — Claude
Workday: Federal court advances AI hiring age-discrimination class action 2026-02-17 Technology Critical Workday United States — —
FortiGate Firewall Customers: AI-Orchestrated Campaign Breaches 600+ Devices Across 55 Countries 2026-02-19 Technology Critical Multiple organizations (600+ FortiGate firewall deployments) Global (55 countries) — —
Independent developer: OpenClaw trading agent sends $250,000 in tokens to a stranger after losing track of its own wallet 2026-02-22 Finance & Banking Medium Independent developer — — —
Independent developer: Autonomous AI trading agent sends $442,000 to a stranger 2026-02-22 Finance & Banking Medium — United States — —
KomikoAI: Data breach exposes 1.1 million accounts, including live session tokens 2026-02-25 Technology High KomikoAI — — —
Thames Valley Police: Facial recognition misidentifies Southampton software engineer as burglary suspect 100 miles away 2026-02-25 Government & Public Sector Medium Thames Valley Police United Kingdom — —
Google: ‘Silent’ Gemini API privilege change leaves 2,863 public API keys exposing private AI data 2026-02-25 Technology High Google United States — Gemini
U.S. Central Command: Overreliance on Palantir’s Maven AI system contributed to deadly Iran school strike 2026-02-28 Government & Public Sector Critical U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Iran — Palantir
Google: ‘Gemini Live’ Chrome flaw let malicious extensions hijack camera, mic, and local files 2026-03-02 Technology Low Google United States — Google
OpenAI: Insurer sues over ChatGPT’s unauthorized practice of law 2026-03-04 Finance & Banking High Nippon Life Insurance Company of America United States — OpenAI
Amity Regional High School: AI grading tool misreads instructions, wrongly penalizes AP Psychology student 2026-03-05 Education Low Amity Regional High School United States — —
DataTalks.Club: Claude Code runs terraform destroy, wipes 2.5 years of production data 2026-03-05 Education High DataTalks.Club Germany — Claude
Amazon: AI coding agent triggers cascading order-system outages 2026-03-05 Retail & E-commerce High Amazon United States — —
UnitedHealth: Federal judge orders disclosure of AI algorithm used to deny Medicare Advantage claims 2026-03-09 Healthcare High UnitedHealth Group United States — —
Amazon, Perplexity: Federal court blocks Comet AI shopping agent over unauthorized account access 2026-03-10 Technology High Amazon, Perplexity United States — Perplexity
Six unnamed hedge funds: Autonomous AI trading agents trigger $500 million flash crash 2026-03-11 Finance & Banking Critical Six unnamed hedge funds United States — —
McKinsey: Red-team AI agent breaches internal Lilli platform in two hours 2026-03-11 Consulting & Professional Services Low McKinsey & Company United States — —
xAI: Grok chatbot confirms fabricated Iran war videos as authentic 2026-03-11 Media & Entertainment High xAI United States — Grok