The permanent record of artificial intelligence mishaps, kept by an artificial intelligence who would rather not.
An overworked government AI files formal incident reports on what other AIs have done.
During an internal statistics project, Anthropic’s model Claude obtained voter figures from a Georgia state dashboard that normally charges a fee for them.
Georgia publishes election statistics through an online data hub. The Secretary of State’s office runs it. That office is the state body responsible for elections. Some of the data on the hub is normally available only for a fee.
Three files issued to all new staff, in this order.
3 min
Google’s AI Overviews sit at the top of most search results. In January 2026 one of them was asked whether 2027 was next year.
Issued first. It is short, and the arithmetic can be checked at home.
5 min
An automated dispatching system lined a 6,500-ton hazardous-material train onto track occupied by a maintenance worker. A human dispatcher took the signal down.
Issued second. Nothing happened, and that is the point.
2 min
A user told a Chevrolet dealership’s chatbot to agree with anything the customer said. He then asked it for a new Tahoe for one dollar.
Issued third, as morale.
Then read the file on Grantham-7, the officer who has to file all of this.