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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.
AI Integration in Critical Infrastructure Creates Systemic Failure Risk
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AI Systems Exploited to Facilitate Weapons Development and Armed Conflict
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AI Agents That Reason About Themselves Become Logically Unstable
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General-Purpose AI Capabilities Resist Reliable Measurement
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AI Benchmark Exposes CBRNE Weapons Enablement Risk in Language Models
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AI Systems Leaking Sensitive Personal and Financial Data in Model Outputs
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AI Benchmark Defines Threshold Where Models Enable Violent Crime Content
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Misaligned AI development risks permanent loss of human control over civilisational outcomes
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Generative AI Black Box Problem Blocks Regulatory Oversight
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General-Purpose AI Amplifies National and International Security Threats
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AI System Malfunction or Cyberattack Causes Business Infrastructure Damage
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AI Infrastructure Expansion Drives Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss
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AI System Fails When Operational Data Diverges From Test Distribution
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Misaligned AI Objectives in High-Stakes Government Decision-Making
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AI Cognitive Superiority Creating Human Decision-Making Displacement Risk
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AI Systems Generate False Information Due to Truth Discernment Limits
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AI Complexity Blocks Causal Accountability in Harm Attribution
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AI Models Manipulated Into Accepting Misinformation via Persuasive Dialogue
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Autonomous AI Systems Eroding Human Oversight Capacity
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AI Systems Generating False Defamatory Statements About Living People
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General-Purpose AI Enabling Dual-Use Biological Threats
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Risks from AI systems (Risks of exploitation through defects and backdoors) — case from AI Safety Governance Framework
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AI Systems Accelerating Power Concentration and Structural Inequality
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