UNDERNEWS: Artificial Intelligence

January 20, 2026

Artificial Intelligence

Time - With the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence around the world over the past year, the technology’s potential to cause harm has become clearer. Reports of AI-related incidents rose 50% year-over-year from 2022 to 2024, and in the 10 months to October 2025, incidents had already surpassed the 2024 total, according to the AI Incident Database, a crowd-sourced repository of media reports on AI mishaps. Incidents arising from use of the technology, such as deepfake-enabled scams and chatbot-induced delusions have been rising steadily, according to the latest data. “AI is already causing real world harm,” says Daniel Atherton, an editor at the AI Incident Database. “Without tracking failures, we can't fix them,” he adds.

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