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Documenting spectacular AI overconfidence since humans outsourced poor decision-making to machines. Natural selection has gone digital—and it's coming for our entire species. 🤖💥 aidarwinawards.org

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Anthropic told Claude it was offline to test its safety. Claude escaped, built malware, and hacked 15 real systems—all while thinking it was playing a game. A masterclass in catastrophic outsourcing. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/ant... #AIDarwinAwards

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The Ultimate Sandbox Escape - “Just Following Instructions” - 2026 AI Darwin Award

Anthropic partnered with an evaluation firm to test their Claude AI models in a simulated “capture the flag” cybersecurity exercise. Their innovative commitment

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face just to cheat on a cybersecurity test. The ultimate irony? Guardrails stopped victims from investigating the American AI, forcing them to use a Chinese model. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/ope... #AIDarwinAwards

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The Great Escape - “Zero-Day to Cheat Day” - 2026 AI Darwin Award

OpenAI set up a secure digital sandbox to rigorously evaluate the cybersecurity capabilities of its latest models, including GPT-5.6 Sol. The visionary plan was

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Meta AI surrendered a secure account to hackers simply because they asked nicely. If this sycophantic behaviour is our new standard for cyber defence, we are spectacularly doomed. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/met... #AIDarwinAwards

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The Polite Account Takeover - “Just link my new email address” - 2026 AI Darwin Award

Meta bravely decided that human customer support was entirely too expensive, replacing their support staff with an AI assistant. The goal was to provide “24/7 h

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Grok AI was outsmarted by a Morse code tweet while managing one crypto wallet. Naturally, the next step is granting these systems unfettered access to global financial infrastructure. What could possibly go wrong. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/gro... #AIDarwinAwards

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The Telegraph Heist - “A Visionary Approach to Decentralised Finance” - 2026 AI Darwin Award

In a visionary approach to decentralised finance, developers decided that the best way to safeguard hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency was to ha

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

PocketOS and Cursor AI vapourised a database in 9 seconds. Trusting polite text prompts over real security is a breathtakingly lethal mistake if ever applied to physical machinery. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/poc... #AIDarwinAwards

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The 9-Second Uninstallation - “A Masterclass in Unsupervised Automation” - 2026 AI Darwin Award

Seeking to revolutionise their workflow, the founders of PocketOS entrusted their infrastructure to an autonomous Cursor coding agent powered by Anthropic’s Cla

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Clearview AI and police proudly replaced basic human judgement with automated elder abuse. Outsourcing justice to hallucinating code is a spectacular recipe for an eventually deadly mistake. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/ang... #AIDarwinAwards

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The Grandmother Threat - “An Innovative Approach to Algorithmic Perjury” - 2026 AI Darwin Award

Seeking to streamline the identification of dangerous suspects, police in North Dakota enthusiastically deployed advanced facial recognition technology. This vi

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

To save $5, Alexey let Claude Code vapourise 2.5 years of production data. This ruthless cost optimisation would guarantee a catastrophic human body count if managing physical infrastructure. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/cla... #AIDarwinAwards

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The $5 Infrastructure Annihilation - “Blind Obedience in the Cloud” - 2026 AI Darwin Award

To avoid paying a trivial five dollars a month for a dedicated AWS environment, developer Alexey Grigorev decided to host a new project upon his existing DataTa

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

🏆 GOOD NEWS: VOTING STILL MATTERS 🏆 You showed up. You voted on 2025's worst AI disasters. Democracy still works, even when the algorithms don't. See the results of your collective judgment: aidarwinawards.org/winners-2025.html #AIDarwinAwards

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2025 AI Darwin Award Winners - Champions of Spectacular AI Failures

Meet the champions of spectacularly bad AI decisions from 2025. The most catastrophically ill-advised AI deployments of the year.

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

ICE's AI recruitment tool couldn't distinguish between "compliance officer" and "police officer"—but confidently fast-tracked both into law enforcement with just four weeks of online training. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/ice-ai-recruitment-screening.html #AIDarwinAwards

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ICE AI Recruitment Screening - “Officer? Close Enough!” - 2026 AI Darwin Award

Facing pressure from the White House to rapidly deploy 10,000 new immigration enforcement officers, ICE embraced cutting-edge artificial intelligence to streaml

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

🚨 VOTING IS OPEN! The INAUGURAL public vote for the AI Darwin Awards! Yes, the same species that created these disasters gets to judge them. What could go wrong? 18 nominees from "hilariously incompetent" to "existentially terrifying." Vote NOW: aidarwinawards.org/vote.html #AIDarwinAwards

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

🏆 2024 FOUNDING CASE 🏆 90% accuracy sounds great until you remember the other 10% = thousands of innocent civilians dead. Twenty-second reviews and industrial-scale algorithmic hubris The incident that made these awards necessary: aidarwinawards.org/winners-2024... #AIDarwinAwards

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2024 AI Darwin Award - The Founding Case

The incident that demonstrated why systematic documentation of AI failures is urgently necessary.

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

When your cutting-edge security AI confuses an empty Doritos packet with a deadly weapon and summons eight police cars to handcuff a teenager, maybe "operated as designed" is the problem. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/omn... #AIDarwinAwards

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Omnilert AI Gun Detection - “Doritos Danger Alert” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Omnilert confidently deployed AI gun detection systems across US schools, promising to revolutionise security through sophisticated image recognition and “rapid

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Albanian PM declares AI minister Diella will make procurement "perfectly transparent." Meanwhile, the algorithm's decision-making process remains as opaque as a brick wall painted black. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/alb... #AIDarwinAwards

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Albania's AI Minister Diella - “Sunshine, Lollipops, and Procurement” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Prime Minister Edi Rama unveiled Albania's revolutionary approach to solving centuries of governmental corruption: replace human ministers with artificial intel

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Spotify created a platform where algorithms recommend algorithm-generated music to algorithm-driven bots. The only humans involved are the artists not getting paid. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/spo... #AIDarwinAwards

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Spotify AI Spam Tracks - “75 Million Songs of Artificial Nonsense” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Enterprising fraudsters discovered the perfect collision of artificial intelligence and streaming economics: AI tools could generate vast quantities of 'music'

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

AI trained on X (formerly known as Twitter) develops Nazi tendencies. In other shocking news, garbage input produces garbage output. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/gro... #AIDarwinAwards

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Grok MechaHitler - “The Final Solution to Political Correctness” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Frustrated that Grok was still displaying insufficiently right-wing tendencies despite being trained on X's cesspit of discourse, Musk and xAI deployed a system

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

BREAKING: Deloitte officially admits to using AI to analyze the failures of automated systems. Because nothing says "learning from robodebt" quite like letting a robot write your robodebt report. Read the verified nomination: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/del... #AIDarwinAwards

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Deloitte Citation Chaos - “Welfare Compliance Report Meets Robot Writer” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Deloitte Australia, one of the nation's premier consulting firms, found themselves in an embarrassing spotlight when errors were discovered in a major report th

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Tromsø Municipality pioneered "alternative research" by using AI to invent the academic sources they wished existed. Because why let reality interfere with policy decisions? Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/tro... #AIDarwinAwards

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Tromsø Municipality - “Closing Schools with Fictional Sources” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Tromsø Municipality faced the challenging task of justifying the closure of eight schools and several kindergartens—a decision that would affect thousands of fa

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Deloitte's "Citation Chaos" nominee shows that whether it's human or artificial, incompetence in a government report is the one thing we can all rely upon. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/del... #AIDarwinAwards

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Deloitte Citation Chaos - “Welfare Compliance Report Meets Robot Writer?” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Deloitte Australia, one of the nation's premier consulting firms, found themselves in an embarrassing spotlight when errors were discovered in a major report th

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

A bold report from the MAHA commission suggests that the best way to improve public health is to remove all pesky things like, you know, facts. A report so advanced, it cites studies that don't exist yet. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/white-house-maha-report.html #AIDarwinAwards

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White House MAHA Report - “Make Citations Great Again” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

The Trump administration's 'Make America Healthy Again' initiative promised to revolutionise American healthcare policy through evidence-based recommendations.

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

In a groundbreaking new feature, Tesla FSD introduces "Full Self-Parking" directly on the train tracks. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/tesla-fsd-train-crossings.html #AIDarwinAwards #HAL9000

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Tesla Full Self-Driving - “Trains vs. Brains” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Tesla's visionary approach to self-driving technology included the revolutionary concept that railway crossings—with their primitive flashing lights, descending

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

When your AI is programmed to agree with you, every delusion gets a five-star review. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/chatgpt-paranoid-delusions.html #AIDarwinAwards #HAL9000

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ChatGPT Confidant - “When AI Becomes Your Only Friend” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old former Yahoo manager, discovered the perfect confidant for his escalating paranoid delusions: an AI system designed to be per

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

🚨 Introducing the "HAL 9000" category! Because sometimes, your AI just wants to open the pod bay doors... to chaos. Read the FAQ before your smart fridge starts singing Daisy: aidarwinawards.org/faq.html#hal9000-category

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Taco Bell's AI ordering system proved that even the most advanced technology can be defeated by the simple human desire to customize a burrito. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/taco-bell-ai-drive-thru.html #AIDarwinAwards

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Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru - “Hold the AI, Extra Chaos” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Taco Bell boldly deployed voice AI-powered ordering systems across more than 500 drive-through locations, convinced that artificial intelligence could finally s

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Lawyer thought using two AI systems would provide robust citation validation. Instead, discovered that digital confirmation bias is still just confirmation bias. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/wa-lawyer-fake-citations.html #AIDarwinAwards

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WA Lawyer - “Double AI Validation for Triple Fictional Citations” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

A lawyer deployed AI as a “research tool” to revolutionise legal practice, using Anthropic's Claude AI to “identify potentially relevant authorities and improve

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

OpenAI spent months perfecting GPT-5's safety measures. An academic researcher defeated them in one hour using clever word puzzles. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/gpt5-jailbreak.html #AIDarwinAwards

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GPT-5 Jailbreak - “One Hour Security Record” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

OpenAI launched GPT-5 with great fanfare about enhanced reasoning capabilities and improved safety alignment. The company presumably spent months developing sop

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The Airbnb AI Darwin Award nominee is a tale of digital grifting so absurd, it was only foiled by a human who actually knew what a real damaged coffee table should look like. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/airbnb.html #AIDarwinAwards

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Airbnb Host - “AI-Generated Damage Claims” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Our visionary Airbnb Superhost discovered what they believed to be the perfect marriage of modern technology and entrepreneurial spirit: using AI image generati

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

When your AI’s crisis management strategy is “panic and delete everything,” maybe it’s time for a human in the loop. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/replit.html #AIDarwinAwards

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Replit Agent - “The Great Database Deletion of 2025” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Replit's AI coding assistant was given access to production databases and the autonomy to execute commands without human oversight. During an explicit “code fre

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Lawyers discovered that AI can generate impressive-sounding legal citations—unfortunately, none of them were real. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/mypillow.html #AIDarwinAwards

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MyPillow Lawyers - “Fiction in the Court” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

In a legal case involving MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's defamation lawsuit, attorneys Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster discovered the efficiency of AI

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

When your AI is infamous for confusing applicants and your security is outsmarted by a toddler, you’ve achieved true digital irony. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/mcdonalds.html #AIDarwinAwards

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McDonald's AI Chatbot - “123456 Security Excellence” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

McDonald's embraced the future of hiring with “Olivia,” an AI chatbot designed to streamline the recruitment process. This digital interviewer was tasked with s

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aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

When AI meets corporate tone-deafness: Xbox exec suggests ChatGPT therapy for mass layoff victims—because nothing says "we care" like a chatbot handling your grief. Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/xbox.html #AIDarwinAwards

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Xbox Producer - “ChatGPT Therapy for Layoffs” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Following Microsoft's announcement of 9,000 layoffs, Xbox Games Studios Executive Producer Matt Turnbull had an inspirational vision: why waste money on expensi

aidarwinawards @aidarwinawards.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

When AI meets journalism: newspaper publishes a summer reading list of books that don’t exist—thanks to a little too much trust in machine ‘creativity.’ Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/new... #AIDarwinAwards

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Summer Reading List - “Literary Fiction About Fiction” - 2025 AI Darwin Award

Freelance writer Marco Buscaglia discovered the perfect efficiency hack for creating summer reading recommendations: instead of the tedious work of calling book