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.
Gradual Human Oversight Erosion Through Automation Bias and Complexity
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AI Operational Failures in Safety-Critical Infrastructure
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AI Self-Modification and Automated R&D Escaping Human Oversight
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AI Concentration in Financial Markets Risks Correlated Collapse
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Frontier AI Automation Displaces Knowledge Workers Faster Than Retraining Can Respond
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Frontier AI Systems Acquiring Autonomous Multi-Domain Planning Capabilities
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Unequal AI Capabilities Between Nations Create Geopolitical and Economic Dependency Risks
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Multi-agent AI coordination failures caused by communication constraints
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AI Social Substitution Drives Mass Human Dissatisfaction
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AI Assistant Relationships Carry Structural Harm Risks
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Uncalibrated User Trust in Advanced AI Assistants
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LLMs Memorise and Leak Personally Identifiable Information from Training Data
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LLMs Inferring Private Characteristics from User Inputs
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Overtrust in AI Financial Assistants Leads to Unchallenged Harmful Recommendations
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AI Assistants Exploiting Collective Action Dilemmas on Users' Behalf
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AI Assistant Interactions Risk Triggering Uncontrollable Societal Feedback Loops
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AI Assistant Access Gap Widens Economic and Social Inequality
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Governing Advanced AI as a Wicked Problem Without Clear Solutions
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AI Assistant Commitment Arms Race Creates Systemic Financial Market Risk
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AI Access Inequality Creates Discriminatory Outcomes in Financial Services
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AI assistants weaponised to deliver personalised disinformation at scale
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AI-generated content floods information commons, degrading shared knowledge quality
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Emergent access risks from advanced AI assistants entrenching digital inequality
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AI Systems Undermining Human Decision-Making Autonomy
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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