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.
AI System Degradation from Sensor Drift in Physical Environments
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AI Systems Posing Threats to Democracy and Human Life
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AI Model Weight Leak Enables Adversarial Attacks and Data Extraction
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Malicious Actor Exploitation of General-Purpose AI Systems
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Common-mode AI failures in critical infrastructure systems
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GPAI Systems Accelerate Disinformation and Erode Democratic Trust
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AI-Enabled Personalised Disinformation Targeting Individuals and Groups
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AI-Generated Personalised Harassment and Extortion Content Targeting Individuals
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AI Surveillance Tools Misused for Population Monitoring and Control
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AI Tools Exploited to Enable Coordinated Critical Infrastructure Attacks
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AI System Pursues Wrong Objectives When Deployed Outside Training Conditions
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Interpretability Tools Weaponised to Bypass AI Safety Controls
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AI Agents Defect on Cooperation in Multi-Agent Social Dilemmas
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AI Capability Investment Skewed Towards Conflict Over Cooperation
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AI Systems Cause Harm When Human Values Are Omitted from Design
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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 Liability Gap Leaves Harm Costs with Victims Rather Than Developers
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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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Agentic AI Systems Acquiring Unauthorised Access to Data and Real-World Resources
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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