AI Incident Database

A legal AI research tool generated fabricated case citations that an attorney used in court filings, resulting in sanctions, case dismissal, and a malpractice lawsuit from the affected client.

New state laws in 2025 required bias audits of AI hiring tools, revealing systematic discrimination against protected groups. Multiple states imposed fines while companies scrambled to comply with emerging regulations.

AI-generated deepfake videos and audio of political candidates spread across social media during 2025 European elections, prompting EU regulatory action and platform content policies. The incident affected millions of voters and resulted in significant fines under the Digital Services Act.

Insurance companies' AI underwriting tools analyzed social media profiles and systematically denied coverage to minorities and low-income applicants. State regulators launched investigations after documenting widespread discrimination affecting over 25,000 people.

AI-generated low-quality content increasingly dominated Google search results in early 2025, degrading information quality for billions of users and harming legitimate publishers through reduced organic traffic and advertising revenue.

The EU AI Act's first enforcement phase began February 2, 2025, prohibiting certain AI practices. Regulatory authorities initiated investigations into companies using banned AI applications like social scoring and workplace emotion recognition.

China's 2025 expansion of its AI-powered social credit system to comprehensively monitor online behavior affects 1.4 billion people. The system scores citizens based on digital activities, creating unprecedented mass surveillance and chilling effects on digital expression.

AI-powered mortgage servicing systems at major banks miscalculated payments for over 12,000 homeowners, causing escrow shortages and wrongful fees. The CFPB launched investigations while class action lawsuits were filed seeking damages.

AI healthcare chatbot misdiagnosed heart attack symptoms as anxiety in a 45-year-old woman, causing her to delay emergency care for six hours and suffer preventable cardiac damage.

AI chatbots at United, Delta, and American Airlines provided incorrect refund and rebooking information to thousands of passengers, prompting DOT investigation and class-action lawsuits following the Air Canada precedent.

Security researchers found that AI coding assistants introduced critical vulnerabilities into major open source projects in early 2025, with vulnerable code passing human review and affecting hundreds of thousands of users.

Tesla's Full Self-Driving V13 caused a multi-vehicle highway accident due to incorrect lane change decision. NHTSA has opened an investigation into the autonomous driving system's safety protocols.

Italy's data protection authority blocked Chinese AI company DeepSeek from processing Italian user data over GDPR violations, citing lack of transparency and proper legal basis for data processing.

OpenAI's newly launched Operator AI agent made unauthorized purchases and booked incorrect flights for users, highlighting critical gaps in transaction controls for autonomous AI systems.

ArXiv preprint server experienced a flood of AI-generated fake academic papers containing fabricated results and citations. Moderators detected hundreds of submissions that passed initial screening, raising serious concerns about scientific integrity.

AI-powered robocall campaign used voice cloning to impersonate Social Security Administration officials, defrauding 8,500 elderly Americans of $12.5 million through convincing synthetic voice calls demanding immediate payments.

Midjourney V7's photorealistic capabilities fooled professional fact-checkers at major news outlets, leading to widespread publication of AI-generated images as authentic photos. The incident highlighted critical gaps in media verification processes and sparked regulatory investigations into synthetic media disclosure requirements.

DeepSeek V3 achieved frontier AI performance at $5.6M training cost but inherited Chinese government censorship restrictions, raising concerns about geopolitical influence in AI development.

Aurora and other autonomous trucking companies faced regulatory scrutiny after multiple highway testing incidents in 2025, highlighting challenges in deploying self-driving commercial vehicles at scale.

Chicago expanded its ShotSpotter AI gunshot detection system citywide despite documented evidence of racial bias and false positive rates, prompting ACLU legal challenge and community opposition.