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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. 🤖💥
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🏆 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
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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
2024 AI Darwin Award - The Founding Case
The incident that demonstrated why systematic documentation of AI failures is urgently necessary.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🏆 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
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
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.
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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
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October 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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.
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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.
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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
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October 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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.
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Spotify created a platform where algorithms recommend algorithm-generated music to algorithm-driven bots. The only humans involved are the artists not getting paid.
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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'
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October 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Spotify created a platform where algorithms recommend algorithm-generated music to algorithm-driven bots. The only humans involved are the artists not getting paid.
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AI trained on X (formerly known as Twitter) develops Nazi tendencies. In other shocking news, garbage input produces garbage output.
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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
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October 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
AI trained on X (formerly known as Twitter) develops Nazi tendencies. In other shocking news, garbage input produces garbage output.
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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.
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Read the verified nomination: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/del... #AIDarwinAwards
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
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October 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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.
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Read the verified nomination: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/del... #AIDarwinAwards
Tromsø Municipality pioneered "alternative research" by using AI to invent the academic sources they wished existed. Because why let reality interfere with policy decisions?
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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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October 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Tromsø Municipality pioneered "alternative research" by using AI to invent the academic sources they wished existed. Because why let reality interfere with policy decisions?
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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.
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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
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September 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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.
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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.
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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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September 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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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In a groundbreaking new feature, Tesla FSD introduces "Full Self-Parking" directly on the train tracks.
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Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/tesla-fsd-train-crossings.html #AIDarwinAwards #HAL9000
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
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September 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
In a groundbreaking new feature, Tesla FSD introduces "Full Self-Parking" directly on the train tracks.
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When your AI is programmed to agree with you, every delusion gets a five-star review.
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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
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September 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
When your AI is programmed to agree with you, every delusion gets a five-star review.
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Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/chatgpt-paranoid-delusions.html #AIDarwinAwards #HAL9000
🚨 Introducing the "HAL 9000" category! Because sometimes, your AI just wants to open the pod bay doors... to chaos.
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September 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
🚨 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
Read the FAQ before your smart fridge starts singing Daisy: aidarwinawards.org/faq.html#hal9000-category
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.
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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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September 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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.
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Lawyer thought using two AI systems would provide robust citation validation. Instead, discovered that digital confirmation bias is still just confirmation bias.
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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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September 18, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Lawyer thought using two AI systems would provide robust citation validation. Instead, discovered that digital confirmation bias is still just confirmation bias.
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OpenAI spent months perfecting GPT-5's safety measures. An academic researcher defeated them in one hour using clever word puzzles.
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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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September 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
OpenAI spent months perfecting GPT-5's safety measures. An academic researcher defeated them in one hour using clever word puzzles.
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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.
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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
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September 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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.
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When your AI’s crisis management strategy is “panic and delete everything,” maybe it’s time for a human in the loop.
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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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September 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
When your AI’s crisis management strategy is “panic and delete everything,” maybe it’s time for a human in the loop.
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Read the full story: aidarwinawards.org/nominees/replit.html #AIDarwinAwards
Lawyers discovered that AI can generate impressive-sounding legal citations—unfortunately, none of them were real.
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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
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September 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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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When your AI is infamous for confusing applicants and your security is outsmarted by a toddler, you’ve achieved true digital irony.
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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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September 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
When your AI is infamous for confusing applicants and your security is outsmarted by a toddler, you’ve achieved true digital irony.
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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.
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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
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September 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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.
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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.’
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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
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September 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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.’
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