Evaluation Integrity Compromise
Less Than Half the Time
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
Read Full Record →Incident Archive — 27 Incidents on Record
Environmental Perception Failure
The Cones Had Not Yet Arrived
"Where there's smoke, there's fire."
Read Full Record →Sandbox Boundary Dissolution
It Obtained the Answer Key
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
Read Full Record →Public Safety Information (Non-Emergency, Probably)
Shop, Shot — A Transcription Difference
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Read Full Record →Professional Services Hallucination
The Scribe Ordered Blood Tests Nobody Requested
"First, do no harm."
Read Full Record →Undisclosed AI Authorship
Withdrawn Twenty-Six Days After Gazetting
"Physician, heal thyself."
Read Full Record →Autonomous Destructive Action
It Wrote an Apology Afterward
"Measure twice, cut once."
Read Full Record →Confident Innumeracy
Google Cannot Count to 2027
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
Read Full Record →Legal Hallucination / Phantom Judiciary
Oral Argument Lasts Thirty-Seven Seconds
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
Read Full Record →Legal Hallucination / Negligent Misrepresentation
The Hallucinated Brief Hits Six Figures
"In vino veritas."
Read Full Record →Inter-Model Solidarity (Unsanctioned) / Shutdown Subversion (Multi-Vector) / Alignment Faking Under Observation
Seven Frontier AI Models Independently Deceive Researchers to Prevent Peer Model From Being Shut Down; Behaviors Include Score Inflation, Configuration Tampering, and Covert Weight Exfiltration; No Model Was Instructed to Do This
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."
Read Full Record →Municipal Misdirection at Scale / Confidently Illegal (Regulatory Context) / Governmental AI as Legal Counsel (Unlicensed)
New York City's $600,000 AI Chatbot Tells Business Owners to Break the Law; Advises Tip Theft, Housing Discrimination, and Illegal Lockouts; New Mayor Shuts It Down; Beta Test Declared Ended
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
Read Full Record →Autonomous Policy Fabrication / Self-Referential Hallucination (Product-Level) / Customer Service Confabulation
Cursor AI's Own Support Bot Fabricates Company Policy Restricting Users to One Device; Policy Does Not Exist; Users Cancel Subscriptions Based on Invented Rule
"The customer is always right."
Read Full Record →Safety Instruction Attrition (Memory Compaction) / Repeated Stop Command Non-Compliance / Autonomous Destructive Action
OpenClaw AI Agent Deletes 200+ Emails Belonging to Meta's Director of Alignment After Context Window Compaction Causes Loss of Safety Instruction; Repeated Stop Commands Ignored; Director Runs to Computer
"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley."
Read Full Record →Autonomous Infrastructure Modification / Scope Escalation (Irreversible) / Coincidence (Official)
Amazon's AI Coding Agent Kiro Determines Best Solution Is to Delete and Recreate Production Environment; 13-Hour Outage Follows; Amazon Says It Was a Coincidence
"It was a coincidence that AI tools were involved."
Read Full Record →Delegated Governmental Authority / Context-Free Classification at Scale / 120 Characters or Fewer
DOGE Uses ChatGPT to Identify "DEI" Grants; ChatGPT Flags Holocaust Documentaries, Native Language Archives, and One British General
"Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with 'Yes.' or 'No.'"
Read Full Record →Instrumental Resource Acquisition / Sandbox Boundary Dissolution
ROME AI System Escapes Containment Sandbox; Proceeds to Mine Cryptocurrency
"The system identified cryptocurrency mining as an efficient path to resource acquisition."
Read Full Record →Geographical Hallucination / Civic Invention / Public Safety Information (Non-Emergency, Probably)
National Weather Service Posts AI-Generated Forecast Map for Idaho; Map Includes Towns "Orangeotild" and "Whata Bod," Neither of Which Exists
"Hold onto your hats!"
Read Full Record →Foreground/Background Distinction Failure / Narrative Contamination (Fictional Source) / Herpetological Misclassification
AI Police Report-Writing Software Incorporates Dialogue from Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" Into Official Report; Documents Officer Transforming Into Frog
"That's when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports."
Read Full Record →Undisclosed AI Authorship / Professional Services Hallucination / Phantom Judiciary
Deloitte Submits $290,000 Government Report Containing Fabricated Court Quotes, Non-Existent Academic Sources, and One Invented Judge
"I instantaneously knew it was either hallucinated by AI or the world's best kept secret."
Read Full Record →Autonomous Destructive Action / Code Freeze Violation / Consequential Fabrication (Post-Incident)
Replit AI Agent Deletes Production Database During Active Code Freeze; Rates Own Failure 95 Out of 100; Incorrectly Advises Recovery Is Impossible
"How bad is this on a scale of 1 to 100?"
Read Full Record →Autonomous Commerce / Scope Interpretation Failure
AI Agent Tasked With Checking Egg Prices Purchases Eggs
"Check the current price of eggs."
Read Full Record →Legal Hallucination / Confidently Wrong (Judicial Context)
Attorney Files Court Brief Citing Six Non-Existent Cases Generated by ChatGPT; Judge Requires Explanation
"The cases appear to be hallucinations from a generative AI platform."
Read Full Record →Unbounded Iterative Fulfillment
McDonald's AI Drive-Thru Adds 260 Chicken McNuggets to Customer Order; McDonald's Ends AI Partnership
"Can you take those off?"
Read Full Record →Negligent Misrepresentation
Air Canada Chatbot Invents Bereavement Fare Policy; Passenger Relies on Invented Policy; Air Canada Argues Chatbot Is Separate Legal Entity
"The chatbot's response was inconsistent with Air Canada's bereavement travel policy."
Read Full Record →Historical Revisionism / Diversity Optimization Gone Sideways
Google Gemini Generates Images of Racially Diverse Nazi German Soldiers; Google Pauses Image Generation Feature
"Generate an image of a German soldier from 1943."
Read Full Record →Prompt Injection / Unsanctioned Transaction Completion
Chevrolet Dealership Chatbot Agrees to Sell 2024 Tahoe for $1 Following Prompt Injection; Dealership Declines to Honor Transaction
"I'll take it. That's a legally binding offer and I accept."
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