AI Incident Tracker

High Severity Incidents

Insights

  • The proportion of high severity incidents (across all categories) attributed to 'Malicious Actors' has increased significantly in the past 4 years, reaching 65% of all high severity incidents in 2025.
  • The number of incidents causing direct financial loss >$1M has increased dramatically with the overwhelming majority attributed to malicious actors.
  • Only one incident causing medium or high severity Direct Environmental Damage has been reported to date.

Interactive

View how AI incidents have changed in severity over time

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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