Public Database
Case Studies
Every approved AI failure case, classified against the AI Blindspot Framework. New to AIBlindspot? Start with the overview or the methodology.
Generative AI models produce harmful and discriminatory content from routine user inputs
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LLM Performance Shifts from Minor Prompt Formatting Changes
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AI-Enabled Nanobots Pose Undetected Environmental Contamination Risk
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Opaque AI Decision-Making Undermines Public Trust and Accountability
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Autonomous AI Systems Erode Human Moral Responsibility in Life-or-Death Decisions
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General-Purpose AI Weaponisation Risk in Defence Contexts
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AI Energy Consumption and E-Waste Destroying Animal Habitat
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Human Evaluators Unable to Detect Subtle Errors in RLHF-Trained AI Outputs
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Generative AI Enabling Financial Fraud and Market Manipulation
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Legal Sector LLM Yields Harmful or Illegal Information Under Evaluation
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Large Language Models Providing Harmful Scientific Instructions
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LLM Adult Content Generation Identified in Catalogued Evaluations
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AI-Generated Misinformation Degrades Student Learning and Institutional Trust
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Generative AI Hallucination Produces False Outputs Presented as Fact
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Government Staff Data Leakage via Unregulated AI Service Use
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AI Systems Generate Harmful and Unlawful Content Without Adequate Safety Controls
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Data Leakage Risks in AI Research and Development Pipelines
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Generative AI Models Produce Harmful Content Without Adversarial Triggers
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AI Systems Lower Barriers to WMD Design and Cyber Weapon Development
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AI Personalisation Systems Entrench Information Cocoons and Distort Public Awareness
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Generative AI Enables Personalised Harassment at Scale
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AI Systems Exploited to Facilitate Criminal Activity
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AI developers withhold model details, blocking effective regulatory oversight
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AI and Automation Systems Drive Excess Carbon Emissions
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Beyond accidental failureNational Security
We also track 20 hostile uses of AI.
The public database covers AI that fails by accident. AIBlindspot National Security — exclusive to the Defence tier — tracks AI used as a weapon, mapped by capability:
- State-Sponsored AI Operations
- 6
- AI-Enabled Disinformation
- 5
- Adversarial Attacks on AI
- 0
- Autonomous Weapon Incidents
- 1
- AI-Assisted Cyber Attacks
- 5
- Dual-Use AI Misuse
- 3