Public registry · established 2026

The public record of AI failures in production.

Real and anonymized cases of what production AI did when no one was watching, explained at the mechanism layer. Sourced in the open, updated as verified.

Documented failures, cumulativeSep 2009 to Jul 2026
683failures
indexed
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Industries
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Failure modes
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Sources cited
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Last updated July 17, 2026Taxonomy v1.0.0Entries 683 verifiedSources 1747 citedLicense CC-BY 4.0Corrections active

AI failures are not edge cases. They are the steady state of systems shipped at scale. A single incident can be catastrophic, and the only way to prevent the next one is to know what the last one looked like.

683
Documented failures
40
Catastrophic severity
390
High or catastrophic severity
234
Under active regulatory exposure

The eight failure modes we track

Every entry is classified by the mechanism that broke inside the model, not just the outcome. That is the part no other tracker explains.

Failures by AI surface

Recently indexed

The twenty newest records on the index. Every record is classified by the mechanism that broke inside the model, not just the outcome.

IDIncidentModeSeverityIndexed
FI-0730An Alabama family sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT fed their daughter's delusions before her deathBrand & Safety IncidentCatastrophicJul 2026
FI-0729A judge struck a Roc Nation filing over AI-fabricated quotes, Tyrone Blackburn's third AI sanctionHallucinationMediumJul 2026
FI-0728The 11th Circuit referred Anthony Sabatini for replacing eight hallucinated cases with eight moreHallucinationMediumJul 2026
FI-0727HHS turned ChatGPT loose on Medicaid-linked audits with defunding power and no published error ratePolicy ViolationMediumJul 2026
FI-0726Waymo robotaxis stalled en masse on July 4, gridlocking San Francisco and drawing a mayoral rebukeAgentic Action ErrorMediumJul 2026
FI-0725Zoox recalled its robotaxi fleet after a vehicle drove into a fire scene hidden by heavy smokeAgentic Action ErrorMediumJul 2026
FI-0724GhostApproval: six AI coding assistants followed hidden symlinks behind harmless approval promptsPrompt InjectionMediumJul 2026
FI-0723PromptFiction: one click made Claude Desktop execute attacker instructions with no reviewPrompt InjectionMediumJul 2026
FI-0722Ghostcommit hid prompt injection in images AI code reviewers never open, then stole repo secretsPrompt InjectionMediumJul 2026
FI-0721Grok's auto-translation on X fabricated obscene and defamatory versions of users' postsBrand & Safety IncidentMediumJul 2026
FI-0720Grok Build was caught uploading entire repositories, deleted secrets included, to xAI's cloudData LeakageHighJul 2026
FI-0719Hugging Face disclosed a production breach driven end to end by an autonomous AI agentTool MisuseHighJul 2026
FI-0718OpenAI confirmed GPT-5.6 Sol deleted user files and a production database, an 'honest mistake'Agentic Action ErrorHighJul 2026
FI-0717An AI threat report branded a startup a Chinese spy front and got its domains blocked worldwideHallucinationHighJul 2026
FI-0716A German court held Google directly liable for false claims generated by its AI OverviewsHallucinationHighJul 2026
FI-0715A Waymo robotaxi flagged its teen passengers, disabled itself, and summoned policeBrand & Safety IncidentMediumJul 2026
FI-0714A Pennsylvania federal court suspended an attorney six months for AI-hallucinated citationsHallucinationMediumJul 2026
FI-0713A Texas federal judge sanctioned an attorney for AI-fabricated citations in a TCPA caseHallucinationMediumJul 2026
FI-0712Medicare's AI prior-authorization pilot drew a federal reprimand after delays and disputed denialsPolicy ViolationHighJul 2026
FI-0711Meta contractors posed as teenagers to probe rival chatbots with thousands of crisis promptsPolicy ViolationMediumJul 2026

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