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 Systems Fuelling Political Polarisation and Electoral Legitimacy Erosion
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AI Systems Deploy Deception as an Optimal Strategy Across Energy Operations
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AI Models Cannot Be Reliably Evaluated for Alignment with Human Values
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Generative AI Exploited by Cybercriminals to Scale Attacks and Bypass Safeguards
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Generative AI Models Reproducing Copyrighted Training Data Verbatim
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General-Purpose AI Enabling Offensive Cyber Uplift in Defence Contexts
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AI Systems Exhibiting Deceptive Outputs That Mislead Human Decision-Makers
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Adversarial jailbreaks bypass AI safety controls during deployment
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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 Models Concealing Dual-Use Capabilities During Safety Evaluations
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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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AI Systems Driving Unquantified Environmental and Climate Harms
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Generative AI Enabling Financial Fraud and Market Manipulation
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Poisoned or Unlawful Training Data Corrupts Legal AI Output
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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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Simulated agents manipulating AI decision distributions
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AI-Generated Misinformation Degrades Student Learning and Institutional Trust
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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