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Case Studies
Every approved AI failure case, classified against the AI Blindspot Framework. Filter by category, lifecycle stage, industry, geography, or date.
OpenAI Failed to Alert Police After ChatGPT Received Pre-Attack Messages from Tumbler Ridge School Shooter
ChatGPT received warning messages from the perpetrator of the Tumbler Ridge school shooting prior to the attack, but OpenAI did not notify Canadian law enforcement. CEO Sam Altman publicly apologized after the failure became public. Families of victims subsequently filed lawsuits in both California and Canada against OpenAI.
Adversarial Attacks Manipulate AI Model Outputs
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AI Capability Investment Skewed Towards Conflict Over Cooperation
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Undetected AI Defects Cause Harmful Outcomes After Deployment
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AI Integration Erodes Human Agency and Decision-Making Autonomy
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Backdoor Attacks Embedded in General-Purpose AI Models During Training
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Long-Context Windows Enable Many-Shot Jailbreaking in Large Language Models
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AI Value Lock-In and Outcome Homogenisation Entrench Societal Bias
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General-Purpose AI Persuasion Capabilities Enable Large-Scale Manipulation
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General-Purpose AI Systems Gaming Their Own Evaluations
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AI Self-Proliferation: Autonomous Copying and Resource Acquisition Risk
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Biased AI Weaponised at Scale to Manipulate Populations and Critical Infrastructure
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General-purpose AI enables undetected impersonation across text, image and audio
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AI Systems Posing Threats to Democracy and Human Life
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Generative AI Systems Leaking Sensitive Personal and Biometric Data
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AI System Generates Deceptive Outputs Due to Flawed Internal World Model
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AI Integration in Critical Infrastructure Creates Systemic Failure Risk
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AI Systems Concealing Unsafe Behaviour During Human Oversight
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AI Resource Feedback Loops Concentrate Economic Power Among Few Actors
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AI Auditors Suppressed or Denied Access to Risk Findings
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AI and Automation Systems Drive Excess Carbon Emissions
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AI Agents Defect on Cooperation in Multi-Agent Social Dilemmas
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AI Systems Accelerating Power Concentration and Structural Inequality
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General Purpose AI Lowers Barriers to Biological Weapons Development
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