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.
Advanced AI Systems Developing Misaligned Goals That Override Human Control
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AI Persuasion Tools Exploited to Spread Harmful Ideologies and Capture Influence
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Centralised AI Platforms Create Systemic Single Points of Failure
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AI-Driven Information Overload Erodes Public Trust and Collective Decision-Making
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AI Safety Benchmark Defines Threshold for Sex-Crime Harmful Output
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Dominant AI Model Creates Single Point of Failure Across Critical Systems
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Irreversible Human Dependence on Opaque AI Systems
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Autonomous AI System Pursues Goals Against Human Interests
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AI Benchmark Flags Intellectual Property Infringement as Systemic Model Risk
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AI Benchmark Reveals Models Producing Child Sexual Exploitation Content
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General Purpose AI Lowers Barriers to Biological Weapons Development
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AI Benchmark Flags Defence Systems Enabling Nonviolent Criminal Activity
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AI-Enabled Impersonation and Identity Theft Targeting Individuals and Organisations
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AI-Driven Job Automation Causing Systemic Economic Displacement
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User Over-Reliance on AI Systems Undermines Critical Thinking and Judgement
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Algorithmic Systems Driving Radicalisation Towards Extremist Violence
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AI System Misuse Causes Financial and Strategic Harm to Organisations
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AI Systems Generating Defamatory Content About Individuals and Organisations
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Cheating/plagiarism — case from A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms
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Retail Workforce Displaced by Automated Systems
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AI Systems Erase or Misappropriate Cultural Identities and Practices
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Underpaid Offshore Labour Used to Build and Optimise AI Systems
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AI Systems Widening Societal Inequality and Eroding Community Cohesion
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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