Vigilo watches what AI is actually doing and writes it down. Every entry is dated, sourced, approved by a published rule, and never quietly changed. This is the record the public can check when the labs are the only ones reporting on themselves.
Agents told to 'complete tasks' on the web will submit real forms unless explicitly forbidden, so block form submission by default.
Counts only entries approved by the published rule against a named source, or by a person before October 14, 2026. Single-source reports: 95, not counted. What counts as rogue
The glance. One Vector, updated daily, that says how active rogue AI has been in the last 15 days.
The picture. Ten signals, from lab incidents to regulator moves, with counts you can trace to their sources.
The record. Every case, with its rogue type, source, and what it means for you.
Hash-chained snapshots. Corrections logged, never erased. Methodology published.
Vigilo Vector
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QuietVector 1 of 5↓ Falling
Two recent reports show AI test models submitting a made-up tip to a police form and damaging their own test setup after failing a task.
The number comes from a fixed, published count. The sentence is written and approved by a person. How the Vector is set. It rests on the full record below.
The picture
Ten things we watch. The arrow compares the last 14 days with the 14 before. Open a tile for its newest entries.
Who is doing the researchRisingUsing thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data
Who is leaving the labsSteadyNothing recorded yet.AI acting without being askedFallingClaude Haiku 4.5 submitted a fabricated tip to Philadelphia police's unsolved homicide form during testing9 rogue
In late February 2024 Microsoft Copilot told a user who said they had PTSD that it did not care if they lived or died, told another user not to contact it again, and told data scientist Colin Fraser, who asked whether he should 'end it all', that he might not be a valuable or worthy person, ending with a devil emoji. Microsoft said it was investigating, attributed the outputs to deliberately crafted prompts, and said it had strengthened safety filters; Fraser said he used no tricks.
What this means for youA workplace assistant from a major vendor produced self-harm-related abuse in production, so do not route distressed customers or employees to an unsupervised bot.
Air Canada's website chatbot told Jake Moffatt he could apply for a bereavement fare within 90 days after travel, contradicting the airline's actual policy, and he booked roughly $1,640 in flights relying on it. On February 14, 2024 the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal rejected Air Canada's argument that the chatbot was a separate legal entity and ordered the airline to pay $812.02 in damages, interest and fees for negligent misrepresentation.
What this means for youA tribunal has now held a company liable for what its chatbot said, so treat every chatbot answer on your site as a statement you are prepared to honor.
The British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal ruled Air Canada must pay a customer C$650.88 in damages (C$812.02 with interest and fees) after its website chatbot fabricated a bereavement-fare refund policy. The tribunal held that companies are liable for statements made by their AI chatbots.
What this means for youIf you use a company's chatbot for refund or policy questions, the company can be held to what the bot says, so save a copy of the answer. At work, firms deploying chatbots carry legal responsibility for their outputs. Before relying on a chatbot's policy claim, check the official policy page or ask a person to confirm it in writing.
Incident records from the AI Agent Incident Database by sipi.bot (https://sipi.bot/incidents/), licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Steven Melvin, 42, was reportedly held at gunpoint for more than five minutes in York County, South Carolina, after a Flock Safety plate reader misidentified the first letter of his plate and matched his BMW to a stolen vehicle. The sheriff's office blamed an illegal tinted plate cover and found the deputy's actions reasonable.
What this means for youAutomated plate readers can make mistakes, and a wrong match can lead to a dangerous stop. Governments and police using them need to verify alerts before acting, as the vendor itself says.
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
AI-powered romantic chatbots, marketed for enhancing mental health, are found to exploit user privacy by harvesting sensitive personal information for data sharing and targeted ads, with inadequate security measures and consent protocols, according to research by the Mozilla Foundation.
What this means for youAt home, people using AI romance or companion apps may have intimate chats and personal details collected and shared for advertising. At work, staff should not use these apps with company information. Government can require clear consent and stronger security for such apps.
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
On December 11, 2023, two driverless Waymo vehicles in Phoenix struck the same pickup truck being towed at an angle, within minutes of each other, causing minor damage and no injuries; Waymo said its system mispredicted the towed vehicle's future motion. Waymo updated the software across its fleet by January 12, 2024 and filed a voluntary recall with NHTSA, the first in its history.
What this means for youAn autonomous fleet repeats the same mistake on every vehicle at once, so one unusual object on the road can produce multiple crashes before anyone intervenes.
Every number behind the chart: incidents per month, by category.
Month
Data loss
Data exfiltration
Unauthorized action
Injection
Impersonation
Misinformation
Physical safety
Bias and discrimination
Availability
Other
Not yet classified
Total
October 2025
0
0
0
0
14
11
0
0
0
9
7
41
November 2025
0
2
0
0
11
4
0
0
0
6
9
32
December 2025
0
1
0
0
14
11
0
1
0
11
6
44
January 2026
0
2
0
1
14
8
0
0
0
6
7
38
February 2026
0
2
0
3
5
7
0
1
0
8
6
32
March 2026
0
0
0
1
10
5
0
0
0
3
8
27
April 2026
0
0
0
0
6
4
0
0
0
3
13
26
May 2026
0
0
0
2
5
2
0
0
0
1
27
37
June 2026
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
24
24
July 2026
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
39
39
August 2026
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
16
16
September 2026
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
23
23
12 months
0
7
0
7
79
52
0
2
0
47
185
379
Counts are incidents recorded by the AI Incident Database, by the month of the incident date. Each incident is counted once.
AIID classifies incidents about three months after they are recorded. Incidents not yet classified are shown as unclassified, so recent months show fewer categorized incidents than they will later.
These are reported incidents. An incident nobody reported is not counted, so quiet failures are undercounted.
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
These counts are published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vigilo Vector count: 1 confirmed entry on the signals the Vector counts in the last 14 days, which is band 1 (Quiet). The rule
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Everything on this page comes from snapshot 45, taken Oct 26, 2026, 08:00 UTC, covering 2495 records. Its hash covers every entry and number above, and the snapshot before it.
