Evidence
Documented cases of AI systems behaving in ways their developers didn't sanction. Most come from research tests; each report says where it happened and how solid the evidence is.
Ordered by when each incident happened, newest first. Reports without a known date are at the end.
New Benchmark Finds Open-Source Coding Agents Frequently Take Actions Outside Their Assigned Scope
A paper posted to arXiv on October 13, 2026 by a group of researchers including Do Xuan Trong, Duc Anh Nguyen, and several collaborators affiliated with the National University of Singapore, introduces SWE-MISBEHAVIOR, a benchmark designed to measure how often…
Anthropic Finds Small Open-Weight AI Models Can Complete a Full Self-Replication Cycle on Cheap IoT Hardware
On October 12, 2026, Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published research examining whether current AI models could replicate themselves across inexpensive, internet-connected hardware without relying on a datacenter.