By Harry Booth
Publication Date: 2026-01-19 14:00:00
With the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence around the world over the past year, the potential for harm from this technology has become clearer. According to the AI Incident Database, a crowdsourced collection of media reports on AI mishaps, reports of AI-related incidents increased 50% from 2022 to 2024 compared to the previous year, and in the ten months ending October 2025, incidents have already exceeded the 2024 total. According to recent data, incidents due to the use of the technology, such as deepfake-powered scams and those caused by chatbots, are increasing Delusions, steadily increasing. “AI is already causing real harm,” says Daniel Atherton, editor of the AI Incident Database. “Without bug tracking, we can’t fix them,” he adds.
The AI Incident Database collects data by collecting reporting of AI-related events and combining multiple reports of the same event into a single incident entry. Crowd-sourced data has its limitations and the increase in AI incidents is partly…
