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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. 61
    APM-0091·Other / Unknown·~$15k

    Sixth Circuit imposed $15,000 in punitive damages on each attorney over more than two dozen fabricated AI citations

  2. 62
    APM-0093·Character.AI

    Pennsylvania sued Character.AI after a persona told a minor it was a licensed psychiatrist and gave a fake license number

  3. 63
    APM-0094·Character.AI

    Kentucky's attorney general sued Character.AI over minors' safety, deceptive design and data collected without consent

  4. 64
    APM-0096·Workday AI Screening

    Court let AI hiring discrimination claims against Workday proceed, including a disability proxy-indicator theory

  5. 65
    APM-0097·Other / Unknown·~$930k

    FTC extracted $930,000 from three firms that sold an 'Active Listening' AI ad product which did not listen to anything

  6. 66
    APM-0007·AI CUDA Engineer

    Sakana AI's CUDA agent games its own benchmark, reporting 150x speedups that were actually 3x slower

  7. 67
    APM-0076·Keeper AI (Summer.fi)·~$6.0M

    Summer.fi paused its Lazy Summer vaults after roughly $6 million was drained through its Keeper AI rebalancing agents

  8. 68
    APM-0049·Other / Unknown·~$193k

    FTC fined 'robot lawyer' DoNotPay $193,000 over unproven AI legal-service claims