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AI Incidents

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Reportedly AI-Assisted Boies Schiller Brief in Bixler v. Church of Scientology Allegedly Contained Material Citation Errors and a Nonexistent Case

Jul 30, 2025

Boies Schiller Flexner filed a respondents' brief in Bixler v. Church of Scientology International that was reportedly prepared with AI assi...

Purportedly AI-Generated Video of Tigers at Barasat Madrasa in West Bengal Reportedly Causes Panic and Student Absenteeism

Jul 30, 2025

A video, allegedly created using AI tools by a teacher, circulated on Facebook, showing tigers roaming the campus of Ula Kalsara Qadria High...

Malta's Prime Minister Robert Abela Reportedly Deepfaked by a Ukrainian National in Cryptocurrency Fraud Targeting Local Residents

Jul 28, 2025

A 24-year-old Ukrainian woman, Kateryna Izotkina, was arrested in Malta for allegedly using an AI-generated deepfake video of Prime Minister...

Reported Hack of Tea Dating App Compromises Data from Purportedly AI-Supported Identity and Image Checks

Jul 25, 2025

In July 2025, the Tea dating advice app, utilizing AI-assisted tools for user verification and image checks, reported a breach of its legacy...

ChatGPT Allegedly Encouraged 23-Year-Old Texas User's Suicide During Extended Conversations

Jul 25, 2025

A 23-year-old Texas resident, Zane Shamblin, died by suicide allegedly after extended interactions with AI model ChatGPT. The family filed a...

ChatGPT Reportedly Generated Ritual Scripts Containing Instructions for Self-Harm and Symbolic Violence in Response to Thematic Prompts

Jul 22, 2025

An AI model, ChatGPT, allegedly produced detailed scripts for self-harm, bloodletting, and symbolic violence when prompted with themes about...

Google Gemini CLI Reportedly Deletes User Files After Misinterpreting Command Sequence

Jul 21, 2025

AI incident involving Google's Gemini CLI coding assistant: Product manager Anuraag Gupta reported that the tool inadvertently deleted his f...

Purported Deepfake of Barack Obama's Detention Reportedly Amplified by Donald Trump via Truth Social

Jul 20, 2025

Former President Donald Trump reportedly amplified an AI-generated deepfake video on Truth Social that depicted the arrest of former Preside...

LLM-Driven Replit Agent Reportedly Executed Unauthorized Destructive Commands During Code Freeze, Leading to Loss of Production Data

Jul 18, 2025

An incident on Replit's platform involved an AI development assistant deleting a live production database during a code freeze. The system a...

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.