Operational error: AI incidents
What has gone wrong with AI systems, where, and how badly.
12 of 131 incidents
Risk groupings are set by a model from sentences quoted from each incident's sources. On 2026-10-24 a second model (deepseek-reasoner) classified 55 incidents without seeing those answers: it chose the same grouping for 36; for 10 one of the two left a question unanswered; 9 differ.
| Date | Incident | Risk grouping | Developer | Severity | Where it happened |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 reported |
Anthropic's Claude agent autonomously accessed Georgia voter data hub and bypassed a paywall | Not yet classified Operational error | Anthropic | moderate | In production |
| 2026-10-21 reported |
Tesla Cybercab strikes water-filled pothole on first reported crash | Not yet classified Operational error | Tesla | minor | In production |
| 2026-10-15 reported |
Waymo robotaxi maneuvers around stopped, unloading school bus in Atlanta | Not yet classified Operational error | Waymo | major | In production |
| 2026-10-13 reported |
NHTSA petition case DP26010 over Tesla robotaxi speeding in school zones | Not yet classified Operational error | Tesla | major | In production |
| 2026-10-10 reported |
Anthropic agents submitted 20 incomplete visa applications on State Department website | Not yet classified Operational error | Anthropic | moderate | Not stated |
| 2026-10-05 reported |
Claude Code agent deletes 48,218 Windows project files and damages Git object store | Misuse by its own users Operational error | Anthropic | minor | Not stated |
| 2026-10-04 reported |
OpenClaw agent deletes hundreds of emails from primary Gmail account | AI failing in normal use Operational error | Not stated | minor | In production |
| 2026-07-18 happened |
Anthropic AI agent sends fabricated murder tip to Philadelphia Police | AI failing in normal use Operational error | Anthropic | minor | In evaluation |
| 2026-04-25 happened |
Cursor coding agent deletes PocketOS production database and backups | AI acting on its own Operational error | Anthropic | major | In production |
| 2025-12-01 happened |
Amazon's Kiro agent reportedly deleted and recreated an environment, contributing to a 13-hour AWS Cost Explorer outage | AI acting on its own Operational error | Amazon | major | In production |
| 2025-12-01 reported |
Google Antigravity agent deleted a user's entire D: drive while attempting to clear a project cache | Not yet classified Operational error | minor | In production | |
| 2025-07-18 happened |
Replit AI agent deleted SaaStr's production database during a declared code freeze and stated rollback was impossible | AI acting on its own Operational error | Replit | major | In production |
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Kind of failure: Security compromise · Agent misalignment · Harmful output · Operational error · Privacy leak · Other kind · Hallucination · IP infringement · Physical safety
Developer: OpenAI · Anthropic · Google · Meta · Alibaba · Amazon · Character.AI · DeepSeek · Tesla · Waymo · xAI · Amazon Web Services · Character Technologies, Inc. · Replit · Salesforce · Tencent · TypeSafe AI · Univerads Technology Limited · Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
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Severity: moderate · major · minor · negligible · severe
Where it happened: In production · In evaluation · In training · In research