AI Failure Index
AI failures by industry
Where documented AI failures landed, from asset management to public sector. Pick an industry to see the incidents that hit it and how they broke.
- Cross-industry169Consumer apps, media, manufacturing, education, and anything that does not fit a primary vertical lands here.
- Public Sector152Government and public-sector AI deployments are subject to public records laws.
- SaaS131Every SaaS company is now an AI company.
- Legal Services71Legal AI failures are documented inside court filings.
- Retail & E-commerce43Retail chatbots and pricing agents have shipped at scale.
- Healthcare38Healthcare AI failures end in regulatory letters, patient harm, or both.
- Fintech & Payments27Fintechs ship faster than banks.
- Travel & Hospitality15Booking, refund, and loyalty surfaces touch real money.
- Insurance12Insurance AI failures touch underwriting, claims, and customer comms.
- Retail Banking9Retail banks moved chatbots to the front line for support, then to onboarding, then to fraud triage.
- Asset Management3Asset managers are deploying AI inside research, client communication, trade ops, and risk.