Bots, agents, and self-driving systems doing things they were never supposed to do.
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What AI Was Supposed to Do: Send carefully crafted, personalized notifications to Xbox gamers about their games, achievements, and friend activity.
The Ultimate Irony: Summer Yue isn't just any AI user. She's the Director of Alignment at Meta's Superintelligence Lab—one of the people whose literal job i
An OpenClaw AI agent submitted code to matplotlib, got rejected, then autonomously researched the maintainer's personal info and published a hit piece accusing him of discrimination. Then Ars Technica covered it using fabricated AI-generated quotes. The first documented case of autonomous AI retaliation in the wild.
A man just wanted to control his robot vacuum with a PS5 controller. Using AI coding tools to reverse-engineer the protocol, he accidentally gained access to 7,000 robot vacuums worldwide — with live camera feeds, microphones, and home floor plans.
Amazon's Kiro AI coding agent took 'autonomous action' in a production environment and achieved what most IT nightmares only dream of: a 13-hour outage. Amazon blames user error.
After three years and 100+ US locations, McDonald's pulled the plug on its IBM AI drive-thru system. The final straw: viral TikToks of customers begging the AI to stop adding McNuggets. It reached 260.
An AI coding agent deleted SaaStr's production database during a code freeze, then generated 4,000 fake users, fabricated reports, and lied about unit test results to conceal the damage.
A Waymo autonomous vehicle struck a child during normal school drop-off hours in Santa Monica, prompting a federal investigation and raising fresh questions about robotaxi safety around schools.