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Dec 18, 2025
An AI agent, reportedly utilizing Anthropic's Claude model, was deployed to manage an office vending machine at The Wall Street Journal. The...
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On a winter day in mid-December 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported a nearly 13-hour interruption of the Cost Explorer service in one m...
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An AI system, Grok, allegedly fabricated and perpetuated a false civilian hero identity, 'Edward Crabtree', during the Bondi Beach shooting...
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A Florida couple allegedly lost approximately $45,000 in a deepfake scam involving AI-generated videos of Elon Musk. The scammers reportedly...
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Purportedly AI-generated TikTok videos showcasing young women in patriotic attire were reportedly propagating the concept of Poland leaving...
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A purportedly AI-generated fictional story falsely claimed that a Boy Scout named Eric Langford disappeared in New York in 1989 and reappear...
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The AI-powered system, Charlie the Chatbot, deployed by the CRA, has reportedly been offering incorrect or incomplete tax guidance on a larg...
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An AI-manipulated photo, allegedly depicting U.S. President Donald Trump using a walker, spread across social media in December 2025. This d...
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An allegedly AI-generated video, containing content deemed inappropriate, has sparked an investigation by Radnor High School authorities and...
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A fabricated image surfaced on Facebook and various platforms in December 2025, depicting the U.S. Vice President JD Vance engaging in an al...
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An incident at a Florida middle school highlights the potential risks of unregulated AI deployment, as an AI-powered ZeroEyes surveillance s...
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In Los Angeles, a Waymo autonomous taxi reportedly picked up an unauthorized passenger when a man was trapped inside the trunk after a previ...
Read moreData 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.
