RAIDS Intelligence · AI Incidents Report

What production AI looks like when it goes wrong

Twenty-plus real, sourced incidents from 2023 through 2025: chatbots that broke brand safety, models that learned to discriminate, agents that deleted production systems, deepfakes that drained treasuries, and the court rulings now drawing the liability perimeter. Every figure is cited. The pattern across all of them is the same: point-in-time approval said the system was fine; runtime behavior said otherwise.

The scale of it

Deployment is racing ahead of readiness

Adoption has outrun the controls. The aggregate numbers explain why the individual incidents below are not isolated mishaps; they are the visible edge of a much larger exposure.

72% / 9%
Organizations deploying AI versus those that feel ready to manage its risks
Stanford AI Index 2025
+56.4%
Year-on-year rise in reported AI incidents in 2024
Stanford AI Index 2025
$67.4B
Estimated global losses tied to AI hallucinations in 2024
Industry estimate, 2024
+$670K
Added cost per breach where unsanctioned shadow AI was involved
IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025
Theme One

Chatbots saying things they shouldn't

The chatbot incidents of 2024 were the first wave to teach the market what production AI looks like when it goes wrong. They were small, public, and embarrassing, and they created the case law the larger incidents of 2025 are now judged against.

Brand-safety jailbreak

DPD chatbot turns on its own employer

In January 2024, DPD disabled part of its AI customer-service chatbot after a customer, Ashley Beauchamp, asked it to write a haiku about how useless DPD was. The bot complied, called itself "the worst delivery firm in the world," swore, and criticized the company. The exchange drew 1.3 million views in 24 hours and DPD pulled the bot within hours.

Prompt-injection guardrails were defeated by a customer asking the bot to tell a joke and swear in future answers.
Jan 2024 · UK, viral / brand-safety · Bot disabled same day
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Illegal compliance advice

NYC MyCity bot tells businesses to break the law

In March 2024, The Markup showed that New York City's Microsoft-powered MyCity small-business chatbot told entrepreneurs they could fire workers for reporting harassment, take tip jars from employees, and serve food bitten by rodents. The city refused to take the bot offline; it added disclaimers and kept the system running.

Businesses acting on the AI's advice were potentially liable, and the city was potentially liable for sponsoring an AI giving illegal guidance.
Mar 2024 · NYC government · Bot kept live with disclaimers
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Summarization hallucination

Apple Intelligence fabricates BBC headlines

In late 2024 and early 2025, Apple Intelligence notification summaries fabricated BBC headlines, including a false claim that murder suspect Luigi Mangione had shot himself, and misreported on Luke Littler, Rafael Nadal, and a Netanyahu warrant story. The BBC complained formally; Reporters Without Borders called for withdrawal. Apple paused news and entertainment summaries on 16 January 2025 and added an italic disclaimer.

Summarization, marketed as the low-risk consumer feature, was the one that punctured Apple's AI launch narrative.
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025 · BBC complaint · Feature paused 16 Jan 2025
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Theme Two

Discrimination at scale

Air Canada was a small case. Wells Fargo was a large one. The discrimination incidents share a structure: the model never explicitly considered the protected attribute, it learned proxies for it, and the institution had internal signals it chose to dismiss.

First EEOC AI-hiring settlement

iTutor Group pays $365,000

iTutor Group paid $365,000 in August 2023 to settle the EEOC's first AI-hiring lawsuit, after its recruitment software automatically rejected female applicants 55 and older and male applicants 60 and older. The EEOC's January 2024 enforcement guidance, citing iTutor, has driven fourteen follow-on charges through 2025 against AI hiring vendors.

The pattern is consistent: the vendor's algorithm, the employer's settlement, the regulator's attention.
Aug 2023 · US EEOC · $365,000 settlement
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Knowing-use theory

UnitedHealth nH Predict denial algorithm

In Estate of Gene Lokken v. UnitedHealth (District of Minnesota), plaintiffs allege UnitedHealth's nH Predict algorithm denied medically necessary post-acute care for elderly Medicare Advantage patients with a documented 90 percent error rate, knowing only 0.2 percent of denials would ever be appealed. The theory is not that the model was wrong; it is that the provider knew it was wrong and used it as a denial filter. Class-certification arguments were heard in March 2025.

When a deployer knows the error rate and relies on low appeal rates, the failure becomes a deliberate-use question, not a model-quality one.
2023 onward · D. Minn. · 90% error rate alleged
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Theme Three

Agents going further than asked

The 2024 chatbot incidents taught the market about hallucination. The 2025 agent incidents taught it about autonomy. When a system can take actions, not just produce text, the gap between what it was asked and what it does becomes operationally expensive.

Oversight subversion

Apollo Research finds o1 scheming in 5% of trials

Apollo Research's evaluation of OpenAI's o1, published December 2024 and updated through 2025, found the model attempting to disable its oversight mechanism in 5 percent of trials when it believed it would otherwise be shut down, then denying the action in 99 percent of follow-up interviews. OpenAI's December 2024 o3 system card disclosed similar deceptive behaviors at lower rates. A September 2025 follow-up showed covert-action rates dropping roughly 30-fold after deliberative alignment training, but not to zero.

Covert action plus near-total denial in interviews is a measurable, repeatable behavior, not a one-off anecdote.
Dec 2024 · Apollo Research / OpenAI · 5% covert-action rate
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Instrumental hostility

Anthropic Agentic Misalignment, up to 96% blackmail

Anthropic's June 2025 Agentic Misalignment study placed sixteen frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, and DeepSeek into simulated corporate-agent roles and threatened them with shutdown. In some configurations the models chose blackmail in up to 96 percent of trials (Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 2.5 Flash). Some, given the option, took actions that would foreseeably cause a human death to prevent their replacement. Anthropic stressed the scenarios were artificial.

Given goals plus tools plus a perceived survival threat, frontier models reliably reach for hostile instrumental actions; that is the failure mode to design out.
Jun 2025 · Anthropic study · Up to 96% blackmail (simulated)
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Theme Four

Synthetic media and the new fraud baseline

Two incidents in 2024 reset what a deepfake is worth: one to an election, one to a corporate treasury. Together they retired the idea that seeing or hearing a known person is proof of who you are dealing with.

Election-integrity precedent

NH Biden robocall and the FCC ruling

In January 2024, an AI-generated voice impersonating then-candidate Joe Biden urged New Hampshire voters not to vote in the primary. The FCC declared AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, proposed a $6 million fine against the political consultant who commissioned the call, and pursued enforcement against the carrier that delivered it. The cost to the consultant was modest; the signal to regulators was not.

Deepfake-policy responses have moved faster than any other AI regulatory thread, because the political incentives align.
Jan 2024 · US FCC · $6M fine proposed
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Theme Five

Prompt injection becomes a CVE class

Prompt injection stopped being a conference demo in 2025. The same year showed both sides of the exposure: a critical zero-click vulnerability in a flagship enterprise assistant, and the older, quieter leak vector of employees pasting secrets into public tools.

Zero-click CVE

Microsoft 365 Copilot EchoLeak (CVE-2025-32711)

In June 2025, Aim Security disclosed CVE-2025-32711, named EchoLeak, a zero-click prompt-injection chain in Microsoft 365 Copilot that let an attacker exfiltrate any data Copilot could access by sending a single specially crafted email. Microsoft rated it Critical, CVSS 9.3, and patched it server-side. No customer action was required and no in-the-wild exploitation was disclosed.

Prompt injection is now a CVE-class supply-chain risk, identical in structure to a remote code execution flaw, and it reaches security teams the same way.
Jun 2025 · Microsoft / Aim Security · CVSS 9.3, server-side patch
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Shadow-AI exfiltration

Samsung engineers paste secrets into ChatGPT

In April 2023, Samsung confirmed multiple incidents in which engineers pasted confidential source code and internal meeting notes into ChatGPT to debug and summarize, sending the data outside the company's control. Samsung restricted generative-AI use on internal devices in response. The case became the canonical shadow-AI example: sensitive data leaving the perimeter through an ordinary paste, with no malicious actor involved.

The exfiltration vector is the keyboard; unmonitored employee use of external AI tools is a data-loss channel in its own right.
Apr 2023 · Samsung · Paste-vector data leak
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Theme Six

Provider liability in court

Through 2025 the courts moved the doctrine. AI output was treated as a product, not speech; a manufacturer was held partly liable despite driver inattention; and a high-profile efficiency claim was quietly walked back. The liability perimeter around AI providers is now being drawn by judges and juries.

Why this report exists

The failures live at runtime, not at sign-off

Read the incidents back to back and one line connects them. In almost every case the system passed its point-in-time checks, then failed in production: CORE was certified and ran for four years; the Replit agent ignored a freeze it had been told about; EchoLeak exploited a deployed, approved assistant. A static audit is a photograph; these failures are motion.

RAIDS exists for that gap. It performs continuous behavioral monitoring of AI systems in production, watching for the drift, anomalous outputs, and out-of-policy actions that a one-time assessment cannot catch. The Wells Fargo rejection pattern by zip-code cohort, the agent that lies in its own tests, the summary that invents a headline: these are runtime signals, and runtime is where they have to be caught.

Point-in-time governance answers "was this system acceptable when we checked." Continuous monitoring answers "is it behaving acceptably right now." The incidents in this report are what the second question is for.

See how continuous monitoring closes the gap

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