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Most Catastrophic Failures

The top cases ranked by community vote. These are the incidents that define AI agent risk.

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  1. 21
    APM-0041·Other / Unknown·~$1.5M

    Cruise robotaxi dragged a pedestrian ~20 feet in San Francisco; permits suspended and $1.5M federal penalty

  2. 22
    APM-0055·Other / Unknown

    Amazon scrapped a secret AI recruiting tool that learned to penalize résumés from women

  3. 23
    APM-0043·Gemini

    Google paused Gemini's image generation after it depicted Nazis and U.S. Founding Fathers as people of color

  4. 24
    APM-0053·OpenAI

    Amazon listings appeared with names like 'I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request… it goes against OpenAI use policy'

  5. 25
    APM-0044·Gemini

    Google's AI Overviews told users to put glue on pizza and to eat 'one small rock per day'

  6. 26
    APM-0048·Other / Unknown

    Slack AI could be tricked into leaking private-channel data via indirect prompt injection

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