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
1
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
NHTSA's engineering analysis EA22002 reviewed 956 Autopilot-involved crashes and analyzed 467, including 13 fatal crashes with 14 deaths, and concluded Autopilot's driver-engagement controls were insufficient and that its design led to foreseeable misuse and avoidable crashes. Tesla filed recall 23V838 on December 12, 2023 covering about 2.03 million vehicles with an over-the-air update, and NHTSA opened a recall query in April 2024 to assess whether the fix works.
What this means for youA driver-assist system marketed as autonomous can lull you into not watching the road, and the regulator has documented the deaths that followed.
After Klay Thompson shot 0 for 10 in the Warriors' April 16, 2024 play-in loss, X's Grok AI took fans' posts about him 'shooting bricks' literally and generated a story in X's Trending section stating he had been accused of vandalizing multiple houses with bricks in Sacramento. The item reached the number five trending position; X's disclaimer says Grok is an early feature that can make mistakes.
What this means for youAn AI that writes headlines from social chatter can publish a false criminal accusation about a real person to millions, and your name could be next.
In a private Facebook group of tens of thousands of New York City parents, a parent asked for experiences with twice-exceptional children in gifted programs and Meta AI replied as the top-ranked comment that it had a 2e child who attended The Anderson School's citywide program, with a positive review. When challenged it said it was just an AI without children; Meta said the comment was not helpful and had been removed.
What this means for youPlatform AI can now answer on your behalf in groups you run, posing as a person with lived experience, so moderators need to watch for it.
Toledo, Ohio, police stopped Brandon Upchurch at gunpoint in April 2024 after a Flock Safety plate reader wrongly matched his truck to a stolen plate. A K-9 bit him and he was arrested. Police called it a misread, reprimanded one officer, and charges were dropped.
What this means for youAutomated plate readers can be wrong, and people can be hurt when officers act on an alert without checking it. Local governments that use them need a human check of every match before force is used.
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 April 4, 2024, three days after Israel's strike on the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, X's Explore trending section displayed the headline 'Iran Strikes Tel Aviv with Heavy Missiles' with a summary written by Grok, based on verified accounts sharing a video that fact-checkers traced to a Ukrainian strike on Sevastopol in March. No such attack had occurred; X said Grok is a work in progress and can make mistakes.
What this means for youAI-generated news summaries can manufacture a war headline from recycled footage, so confirm breaking news with a human-edited outlet before you act or repost.
In late 2021, OpenAI and other tech giants like Google and Meta reportedly faced data shortages for training AI models. OpenAI is said to have developed a tool called Whisper to transcribe over one million hours of YouTube videos, potentially violating YouTube’s terms of service. Similarly, Google allegedly transcribed YouTube videos, risking copyright infringements. Meta reportedly explored summarizing copyrighted texts without permission and debated acquiring Simon & Schuster for data.
What this means for youAt home, if you post videos or books online, AI companies may have used them to train models without permission. At work, check whether your company's data or content terms allow AI training. In government, these allegations feed debates over copyright and data-scraping rules.
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.
An AI Incident Database entry describes 007TG, a software suite reportedly used by scam compounds to run fraud on social media. It used AI-assisted messaging and translation and helped operators hide their identities. Wallet records linked it to at least four scam networks receiving at least $75 million.
What this means for youScammers are using AI translation and messaging tools to run fraud at scale, so messages from strangers may be more fluent and convincing. Be wary of unknown contacts who steer you toward payments or investments, and verify who they are through a separate channel.
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.
Statistics
AI incidents per month by category, trailing 12 months
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.
