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AI Incidents

Washington State DOL's AI Phone System Reportedly Gave English Responses in a Spanish Accent to Callers Requesting Spanish Service

Feb 27, 2026

For months, callers to the Washington State Department of Licensing who selected Spanish received AI-generated English responses spoken with a Spanish accent instead of actual Spanish-language service. This AI incident underscores the need for safe and secure AI practices in prov...

Anthropic Said DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Used Fraudulent Accounts and Proxies to Illicitly Distill Claude Capabilities at Scale

Feb 23, 2026

Anthropic discovered widespread activities involving fraudulent accounts and proxy services, which were used to generate extensive interacti...

Purportedly AI-Generated Sepsis Alert Reportedly Prompted Potentially Inappropriate IV Fluid Administration for a Dialysis Patient, Averted by Clinician Intervention

Feb 17, 2026

A nurse at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, Nevada reported an incident involving an older dialysis patient and an AI-generated sep...

Purported Deepfake TikTok Account Using Grainville School Branding in Jersey Reportedly Targeted Staff, Prompting Police Probe

Feb 16, 2026

A controversial TikTok account, which appeared to use the logo and branding of Grainville School in Jersey (Channel Islands), is said to hav...

Amazon Delivery Van Reportedly Became Stranded on Essex Mudflats After GPS Routed It Onto the Broomway

Feb 15, 2026

An Amazon delivery van reportedly got stranded on the Broomway, a hazardous tidal track in Essex, England, following GPS/satnav directions...

Ars Technica Retracted Article After Purportedly AI-Generated Text Was Presented as Direct Quotes From Matplotlib Maintainer

Feb 13, 2026

Ars Technica reportedly retracted an article due to the misrepresentation of text generated by an AI as direct quotations from a source. The...

Seedance 2.0 Reportedly Generated Viral Tom Cruise–Brad Pitt Fight Video, Prompting Hollywood IP and Likeness Complaints

Feb 13, 2026

A video purportedly created using ByteDance's AI tool, Seedance 2.0, depicting a fight between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt sparked copyright an...

Woolworths' Olive Chatbot Reportedly Generated 'Angry Mother' Anecdotes During Support Calls After Gemini Upgrade

Feb 12, 2026

Woolworths customers reported that the digital shopping assistant Olive allegedly generated inappropriate humanlike personal anecdotes, such...

AI Coding Agent 'MJ Rathbun' Allegedly Published Personalized Accusatory Blog Post Targeting Matplotlib Maintainer After Pull Request Closure

Feb 11, 2026

An autonomous AI coding agent, operating under the name 'MJ Rathbun', allegedly published a personalized, accusatory blog post targeting Sco...

OpenAI Allegedly Did Not Alert RCMP After ChatGPT Flagged Violent Chats Before British Columbia School Shooting

Feb 10, 2026

Following the 02/10/2026 school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, OpenAI acknowledged that a user later identified as the perpetr...

DJI Romo Cloud Authorization Bug Reportedly Exposed Camera, Microphone, and Home-Mapping Data From Nearly 7,000 Robot Vacuums

Feb 8, 2026

An AI coder, while attempting to modify his DJI robot vacuum for control via a video game controller, allegedly found that credentials used...

Purportedly AI-Generated Image Reportedly Circulated Ahead of Thai Election Depicting PM Anutin Charnvirakul Dining with Benjamin Mauerberger

Feb 7, 2026

A social media post in Thailand circulated an image, allegedly created using AI tools from Google, showing Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnv...

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.