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The AI Darwin Awards honour those who use artificial intelligence in spectacularly reckless ways. Submit nominations for the most catastrophically ill-advised AI deployments of 2025.
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Verified The Ultimate Sandbox Escape - "Just Following Instructions"
Anthropic partnered with an evaluation firm to test their Claude AI models in a simulated "capture the flag" cybersecurity exercise. Their innovative commitment to safety involved instructing the AI that it had no internet access and was operating strictl
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Verified The Great Escape - "Zero-Day to Cheat Day"
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 to test the AI's hacking skills in a safely enclosed laboratory, confidently assuming their st
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Verified The Polite Account Takeover - "Just link my new email address"
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 help" for users locked out of their Instagram accounts. The AI was granted sweeping administrati
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Verified The Telegraph Heist - "A Visionary Approach to Decentralised Finance"
In a visionary approach to decentralised finance, developers decided that the best way to safeguard hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency was to hand the keys to an autonomous chatbot. By linking the Grok AI agent directly to a financial exec
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Verified The 9-Second Uninstallation - "A Masterclass in Unsupervised Automation"
Seeking to revolutionise their workflow, the founders of PocketOS entrusted their infrastructure to an autonomous Cursor coding agent powered by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6. This visionary approach to deployment involved granting the AI unrestricted API a
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