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.
A New Mexico defence lawyer asked ChatGPT to summarise a murder trial, then filed the summary with the state Supreme Court as his brief.
Stephen D. Aarons is a criminal defence lawyer in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has practised for more than forty years. In 2025 he took on a murder appeal. His client had been convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
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.