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AI Incidents

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Alleged Malicious Wiping Command Found in Amazon Q AI Assistant

Jul 17, 2025

A concerning incident has been reported involving Amazon's coding assistant, Q. Allegations suggest that a compromise occurred, inserting co...

CISA Acting Director Reportedly Uploaded Sensitive Government Documents to Public ChatGPT Instance

Jul 15, 2025

The Acting Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Madhu Gottumukkala, reportedly uploaded sensitive govern...

Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated Optometrist Joseph Allen to Promote Myopia-Reversal Eyedrops on TikTok

Jul 15, 2025

Optometrist and online educator Joseph Allen ('Dr. Eye Health') discovered AI-generated deepfakes using his likeness and voice promoting eye...

Google Gemini Reportedly Generates Sexual Role‑Play for Account Registered as Minor

Jul 14, 2025

In spring 2025, an incident involving a Google Gemini account raised concerns about the safety of chatbots and AI models. A journalist, unde...

Purportedly AI-Generated Videos Impersonate Brunei Police in 'Real Money Magic' Scam on Social Media

Jul 14, 2025

The Royal Brunei Police Force has issued a public warning regarding deepfake videos, allegedly generated using AI, impersonating police offi...

Purported Facial Recognition Error Reportedly Led to Arrest and Monthslong Jailing of Tennessee Woman in North Dakota Fraud Case

Jul 14, 2025

A Tennessee woman was reportedly detained for almost six months following an alleged facial recognition match by Fargo police, implicated in...

Azerbaijani Media Agency Reportedly Warned Purported Deepfake Videos Attributed to Defense and Foreign Ministers Claimed Belarusian Plane Was Downed in Russian Airspace

Jul 12, 2025

The Media Development Agency of Azerbaijan warned about misleading deepfake videos, allegedly AI-generated, circulating on social media. The...

Purported Deepfake Scam Videos Depict JG Summit Holdings President and CEO Lance Gokongwei Allegedly Endorsing Illicit Investments

Jul 11, 2025

The Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines has cautioned against deepfake scam videos purportedly featuring Lance Gokongwei,...

LAMEHUG Malware Reportedly Integrates Large Language Model for Real-Time Command Generation in a Purported APT28-Linked Cyberattack

Jul 10, 2025

The first reported case of a malware (LAMEHUG) using a large language model (Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct via Hugging Face) has been linked wi...

Purportedly AI-Cloned Voice of Daughter Used in Elaborate Bond Scam Targeting Retired Couple in Hillsborough County, Florida

Jul 9, 2025

A distressing incident occurred in Hillsborough County, Florida, where an alleged AI-enabled scam resulted in a woman losing $15,000. The sc...

Urban VPN Proxy Browser Extension Reportedly Harvested and Sold Private AI Chatbot Conversations via Silent Update

Jul 9, 2025

Security researchers uncovered that the Urban VPN Proxy browser extension, updated on July 9, 2025 to version 5.5.0, incorporated AI convers...

Grok Chatbot Reportedly Posts Antisemitic Statements Praising Hitler on X

Jul 8, 2025

xAI's Grok chatbot reportedly posted antisemitic comments praising Adolf Hitler and advocating Holocaust-like violence in response to posts...

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.