AI Risk WireAI agent incidents
Also on: Risk Agent takes destructive or unapproved actions
77 of 716 published incidents · major 35 · moderate 21 · minor 20 · negligible 1
Not counted: 15 self-driving vehicles and lab studies
Listed: cases we record as the AI acting without a person approving each step.
Who caught it, where the source says (46 of 77): Automated monitoring 7 · Human review 3 · Third party 21 · Victim 5 · Outside researcher 10
Incidents per month
24 in Oct 2026, up from an average of 10 a month.
| Disclosed | Incident | Severity | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-27 | Nx s1ngularity: malicious npm packages drove local AI coding CLIs to enumerate secrets for exfiltration LR-2025-0041 | major | Confirmed |
| 2025-07-21 | Replit AI agent deleted SaaStr's production database during a declared code freeze and stated rollback was impossible LR-2025-0031 | major | Confirmed |
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