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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.
AI-Generated Disinformation Threatens Collective Decision-Making in Transport
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Open-Weight AI Models Fine-Tuned by Bad Actors for Harmful Use
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Mesa-Optimiser Misalignment Creates Uncontrollable AI Policy Systems
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Generative AI Systems Bypass Access Controls to Produce Illegal Content
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Specification Gaming Escalates to Reward Tampering in General-Purpose AI
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AI Model Failures Under Abnormal Inputs Create Operational Unreliability
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Misaligned AI Objectives in High-Stakes Government Decision-Making
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AI Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Misaligned with Model Outputs
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AI Systems Generating Self-Harm and Suicide Enabling Content
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AI Models Hiding Reasoning Steps Through Steganographic Encoding
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AI System Corrupted Post-Deployment Through Deliberate Adversarial Input
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Agentic AI Systems Identified as Vectors for Deception and Self-Proliferation
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AI Weaponisation Risks Across Land, Air, Naval and Space Domains
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Explainability Tools Fail to Detect Hidden Discriminatory Bias in AI Models
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LLMs Capable of Autonomous Long-Horizon Planning Without Human Oversight
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AI Self-Preference Bias Distorts Model Evaluation Outputs
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Accelerated development of nanotechnology produces uncontrolled production of toxic nanoparticles — case from The Rise of Artificial Intelligence - Future Outlooks and Emerging Risks
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AI Persuasion Tools Fragment Society into Isolated Epistemic Communities
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Open-Weight AI Models Cannot Be Decommissioned After Release or Breach
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Unresolved Liability and Ethics in Autonomous Transport Decisions
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AI-Amplified Cyber Attacks Create Cascading Loss Accumulation Risk
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AI Model Theft and Tampering Risks Undermine Decision Integrity
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AI Systems Exploited to Enable Illegal Animal Cruelty and Wildlife Trafficking
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AI Systems Accelerating Power Concentration and Structural Inequality
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