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 Accelerating Power Concentration and Structural Inequality
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Misaligned AI Objectives in High-Stakes Government Decision-Making
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AI Agents That Reason About Themselves Become Logically Unstable
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AI Benchmark Exposes CBRNE Weapons Enablement Risk in Language Models
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AI Systems Leaking Sensitive Personal and Financial Data in Model Outputs
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AI Benchmark Defines Threshold Where Models Enable Violent Crime Content
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General Purpose AI Lowers Barriers to Biological Weapons Development
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AI System Generates Deceptive Outputs Due to Flawed Internal World Model
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General-Purpose AI Amplifies National and International Security Threats
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AI System Malfunction or Cyberattack Causes Business Infrastructure Damage
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Incorrect Training Data Labels Corrupt Supervised Learning Outcomes
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AI Infrastructure Expansion Drives Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss
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AI System Fails When Operational Data Diverges From Test Distribution
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AI Systems Generating False Defamatory Statements About Living People
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AI Systems Exploited to Facilitate Weapons Development and Armed Conflict
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Over-Transparency in AI Systems Enables Misuse by End Users
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AI Evaluation Frameworks Systematically Underweight Hard-to-Measure Human Values
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AI Cognitive Superiority Creating Human Decision-Making Displacement Risk
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Poor Model Design Choices from Unreviewed Developer Decisions
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Fine-tuning dataset poisoning enables covert manipulation of AI model behaviour
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AI Systems Generate False Information Due to Truth Discernment Limits
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Specification Gaming Escalates to Reward Tampering in General-Purpose AI
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AI Complexity Blocks Causal Accountability in Harm Attribution
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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