⚠ About This Operation

We Document the Disasters So You Don’t Have to Google Them Later

Automation Disaster is an independent publication cataloging the most spectacular, baffling, and occasionally terrifying failures of artificial intelligence in the wild. We cover the chatbots that hallucinate, the self-driving cars that don’t stop, and the corporate PR teams that somehow make it all worse.

This isn’t a site that hates AI. It’s a site that believes the people deploying AI should be held to a higher standard than “move fast and break things” — especially when the things being broken are people’s livelihoods, safety, and trust.

What We Cover

Every incident we publish is researched, sourced, and written with equal parts rigor and dark comedy. Our coverage spans four categories:

Why This Exists

The AI industry has a memory problem. A chatbot hallucinates legal cases, a self-driving car runs a red light, or an automated system deletes a company’s entire database — and within a week, the news cycle moves on. The company issues a statement about “continuous improvement,” and we’re all supposed to forget it happened.

Automation Disaster exists to make sure we don’t forget. Every incident is documented, contextualized, and preserved — not because we think AI is inherently bad, but because accountability requires a record.

We write with humor because the alternative is screaming into the void. And the void already has a chatbot that will confidently misquote you.

Our Approach

Every incident report follows the same structure: what happened, why it happened, what the company said about it, and why that matters. We cite our sources, link to original reporting, and resist the urge to editorialize — though we occasionally fail at that last one.

No paywall. No newsletter. No sponsored content from companies trying to convince you their AI is different. Just the disasters, documented with the care and dark comedy they deserve.