AI Incidents

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

Showing 126–150 of 372 incidents
Incident Incident Date ↓ Industry ↕ Severity ↕ Company ↕ Country ↕ Model Vendor
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 — — —
OpenAI: Pastor sues after ChatGPT’s health advice allegedly delayed treatment for near-fatal blood clot 2026-07-22 Technology High OpenAI United States GPT-4o OpenAI
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: Judge grants final approval of $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors 2026-07-20 Technology Critical Anthropic United States — Claude
Udio: Sony Music files new lawsuit alleging AI model trained on 30,000+ copyrighted songs 2026-07-20 Technology Medium Udio United States — —
Anthropic: Users’ shared Claude conversations indexed and exposed via Google Search 2026-07-19 Technology Medium Anthropic — — Claude
Starmangalsutra: Deepfake video call of company director used to steal $1.1 million 2026-07-15 Manufacturing High Starmangalsutra India — —
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