AI Incident Database - Incident 85
Source evidence cited by public records. This page shows where the source is used, its trust tier, and when it was last checked in the seed.
Records using this source
- unknown
entity | 3 May 2026 | 70%
unknown - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- AI attempts to ease fear of robots, blurts out it can’t ‘avoid destroying humankind’
event | 1 Nov 2022 | 78%
On September 8, 2020, the Guardian published an op-ed generated by OpenAI’s GPT-3 text generating AI that included threats to destroy humankind. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.