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AI Incident Database

Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. We advance this mission by deploying our innovations to build democratic AI: AI shaped by democratic principles, governed by common-sense rules and designed to help people solve hard problems while protecting them from real harm. That mission also requires identifying and disrupting attempts by authoritarian regimes and their proxies to use AI systems to coerce critics, surveil communities or covertly interfere in democratic societies.

In this report, we describe two clusters of ChatGPT accounts likely ori

In recent months, Facebook has been flooded with U.S. state-themed AI-generated image posts from a swarm of suspiciously similar accounts with names such as "Life in Nevada", "I grew up in Iowa", and "Utah Life". The content posted by these accounts frequently features rural imagery, and is extremely similar regardless of which state any given post is allegedly about; many of the images posted are more or less interchangeable other than the state name. In an ironic twist, this network of U.S.-themed accounts does not appear to be run from within the United States at all; Facebook's Page Transp

A state-owned newspaper in China recently published a satellite image of a data center in Gainesville, Va., writing in English that the development of artificial intelligence posed a threat to Americans' physical and financial well-being.

A comic strip made to look as if it had been published by a Maryland news outlet --- created with OpenAI's ChatGPT by people in China, the tech company said --- circulated on X this year, blaming data centers for soaring electricity bills. It showed a tycoon smoking a cigar and clutching bags of cash.

A video shared on X by a known covert Russian influence

The Inspector-General of Police's Cyber Vetting and Enforcement Team (CVET) of the Ghana Police Service has arrested 11 individuals, including Nigerian nationals, over allegations of using AI-generated deepfake videos to impersonate John Dramani Mahama for fraudulent online activities.

Police sources told MyjoyOnline.com that between May 1 and 3, 2026, CVET carried out coordinated cyber operations across Sogakope, Dabala, Tongu, Akatsi and Aflao in the Volta Region, leading to the arrest of five suspects.

They include Raphael Ablordeppey (32), Anipah Jonathan (23),

Jan 21 (Reuters) - Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued in California for allegedly compiling reports used to screen job applicants without their knowledge.

The lawsuit, opens new tab filed on Tuesday is the first in the U.S. to accuse an AI hiring company of violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act, according to the law firms that filed the case, and shows how consumer advocates