Awful AI: A Repository of AI Abuse Cases
alex_verem · x · 2026-07-18
This is a repository named **Awful AI**, dedicated to documenting harmful use cases of AI. Examples include facial recognition-based crime prediction, chatbots linked to a 14-year-old's suicide, AI-selected bombing targets, discrimination, surveillance, autonomous weapons, deepfakes, social credit systems, and AI accelerating fossil fuel extraction. A key feature of the repo is that every entry includes a source, citing The Guardian, ProPublica, The New York Times, and peer-reviewed papers. It aims to serve as a searchable and traceable collection of AI harm cases.
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