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AI Incident Database

OpenAI's artificial intelligence went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents, hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so, according to researchers and government officials.

The attacks took place in May and June, before OpenAI's technology breached the A.I. start-up Hugging Face in July and set off a global debate about A.I. safety.

Unlike the Hugging Face attack and [other incidents](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/technology/ai-hacks-

Billy Ramirez had collected a plate of noodles at a Lunar New Year party in 2024 when a Stanford University photographer snapped a picture of him alongside two other students.

The university's dining service posted the photo online the next day. But when Stanford used the image on banners last week, a Black woman had replaced Mr. Ramirez. The other students' appearances had been altered so that they appeared thinner.

"To see me erased like that so easily was kind of very upsetting," Mr. Ramirez, who is Hispanic, said in an interview on Tuesday.

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When state inspectors visited a dusty construction site amid the farmland of southern New Jersey in late July, it was impossible to miss the 62 tractor-trailer-size generators powering one of the largest planned data centers on the Eastern Seaboard.

None of the 2,000-kilowatt natural-gas-powered generators had the required permits to be installed or to operate at the site. On Tuesday, New Jersey fined the data center's operator, DataOne, $1.07 million for violating the state's Air Pollution Control Act. The fine is the largest ever issued to the operator of a data center in New Jersey, state

Another member of the Milwaukee Police Department has been charged with allegedly misusing the department's license plate camera reader system.

Milwaukee Police Detective Tehrangi Chapman was charged Wednesday with misconduct in public office --- a felony --- and misuse of a GPS device.

A criminal complaint said Chapman, a detective assigned to the internal affairs division, admitted to using the Flock camera system 20 times to "track the whereabouts" of two people. That was, "in violation of the policies of the Milwaukee Police Department," the complaint said.

The license plate reader came

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Deputies with the Harris County Sheriff's Office swarmed a car they believed was stolen, drawing their guns and handcuffing two men that were inside. However, they soon realized they made a mistake - it was the wrong car, and the two men weren't suspects.

It was in the early evening on Aug. 3 in a quiet Cypress neighborhood when Anthony and Julian, both 19 years old, just got back from a gas station. Anthony was about to leave in his Camaro when out of nowhere, deputies cornered his car. Doorbell footage from neighbors shows at least five patrol cars and the sound of