AI Incident Tracker

NatSec Impact

Insights

  • The number of reported incidents where overall national security impact was rated high (>=4) almost tripled from 2023 to 2024. (10 incidents in 2023 to 29 in 2024)
  • The number of reported incidents attributed to a fully autonomous AI system has decreased each year since 2022, with the large majority being attributed to human-controlled AI systems.
  • Incidents with non-negligible overall impact that are classified as near-term or immediate threats have been increasing as a proportion of total each year between 2019-2024.

Interactive

View how the National Security impact of incidents has changed over time in each of the impact and threat classification categories.

Explore more of the AI Incident Tracker Project

You can explore different views of the database and classification in the project. For example, you can see all AI incidents classified using taxonomies from the MIT Risk Repository, the type of harm, and individual records in the AI Incident Database.

Key visualizations include bar charts and pie charts that display incident counts, proportions across domains (e.g., "System Failures," "Discrimination & Toxicity"), and trends in causal attributes. Additionally, insights highlight patterns such as the prevalence of system safety issues, intentional misuse trends, and incomplete reporting gaps.

Click through the links below to explore each of the interactive dashboards.

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