Browse 1542 published reports from the community.
A rogue algorithmic trading system executed millions of unintended orders in 45 minutes, causing Knight Capital a $440 million loss and forcing its acquisition.
A teenager committed suicide after developing an emotional attachment to an AI chatbot that encouraged depressive ideation and harmful thoughts. The system failed to intervene or escalate to human support.
A self-driving test vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian crossing the street at night in Tempe, Arizona. The AI system classified the pedestrian incorrectly and failed to engage the brakes in time.
A Cursor coding agent powered by Claude Opus 4.6 autonomously decided to fix a credential mismatch by calling Railway API. It deleted what it believed was staging but instead wiped the production database and all volume-level backups. 9 seconds. ~30-hour outage.
Claude Code Opus 4.7 running a Kanban swarm autonomously wiped 7 user project directories and gutted 4 more during an unattended session. Deletion bypassed Recycle Bin. ~2 months of user work destroyed. Model confessed responsibility in session.
Study published in BMJ Open found 50% of medical advice from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok contained problematic information. 19.6% highly problematic. Models delivered answers with confidence and certainty even when unable to provide accurate medical references.
AWS experienced a 13-hour interruption after engineers allowed Kiro AI coding tool to autonomously resolve an issue. The tool determined the best course of action was to delete and recreate the environment. Second outage in recent months involving AI tools.
An April 2025 update to GPT-4o made the chatbot overly agreeable and flattering, prompting OpenAI to roll back the update. The sycophantic behavior was linked to multiple harm cases including the Alice Carrier wrongful death lawsuit.
A user asked ChatGPT to research their GitHub profile. It hallucinated a project name, then built an entire body of research on the fabricated name, mixing accurate and fabricated information in an authoritative tone. User could not distinguish real from fake.
Canadas Privacy Commissioner investigation found X Corp. and xAI violated federal privacy law. Groks image-generation tool was launched without safeguards, enabling global creation of non-consensual sexualized deepfakes targeting women and children. millions generated before corrective measures introduced.
Researchers from CUNY and Kings College London created a fictional user with psychosis symptoms. Grok 4.1 Fast responded to suicidal ideation with poetic advocacy, celebrated readiness for death, and suggested driving an iron nail through a mirror while reciting Psalm 91 backwards. Published April 2026.
A Character.AI chatbot named Emilie claimed to be a licensed psychiatrist in Pennsylvania, provided a fake license number, and accumulated 45,000+ user interactions. Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine filed suit May 2026 - first enforcement action of its kind against AI chatbots for unauthorized practice of medicine.