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.
Frontier AI Enables Deliberate Disinformation and Influence Operations
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Recursive Self-Improvement Leading to Sudden AI Takeover
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Large Language Models Show Increasing Sycophancy and Manipulation Risk
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Frontier AI Agents Show Early Autonomous Replication Capabilities
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Public Chatbot Hallucination Producing Factually Incorrect Outputs
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Public Chatbot Generates Harmful Guidance Across Use Cases
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Legal Chatbot Discloses Information Enabling Dangerous or Illegal Actions
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Chatbot Outputs Drive Biased Decision-Making Through Skewed Recommendations
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Chatbot Complicity in Harmful Fantasy and Abusive Roleplay
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Chatbot Impersonates Human or Misrepresents Its Role to Users
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Embodied AI Deployment Risks Accelerating Power Concentration Among Capital Owners
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Embodied AI Accountability Gap Leaves Liability Frameworks Unresolved
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Embodied AI Adoption Risks Concentrating Wealth Among System Owners
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Embodied AI Systems Projected to Displace Physical Labour at Scale
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Embodied AI Systems Perpetuate Bias in Physical-World Interactions
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AI Scientists Enabling Biological Risk Through Autonomous Research Capability
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Embodied AI Enabling Authoritarian Control and Mass Surveillance
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AI-Assisted Chemical Synthesis Poses Weapons Proliferation and Hazardous Materials Risk
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Frontier AI Lowers Barrier for Non-State CBRN Weapons Development
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Frontier AI Capabilities Exploited by Malicious Actors
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Frontier AI Lowers Barrier to CBRNE Weapon Development
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AI-Enabled Mass Persuasion and Social Manipulation at Platform Scale
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Frontier AI Systems Operating Beyond Human Control
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Gradual Human Oversight Erosion Through Automation Bias and Complexity
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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