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## Transcript

What if we took every media report of AI harm and counted it up to see how AI's impact has changed over time? That's the idea behind the AI Incident Database, a crowdsourced repository of media reports on AI mishaps. I'm Harry Booth and this is AI explained by humans. Reports of AI related incidents rose 50% year over year from 2022, the year that ChatGPT was released to 2024. In the first ten months of 2025, incidents had already surpassed the 2024 total. That's likely, in part a reflection of the increased media scrutiny on AI. But I think what's more interesting to me is the types of AI causing harm in those incidents.

Before 2023, autonomous vehicles, facial recognition and content moderation algorithms were all the most commonly cited systems. But since then, incidents involving deepfake videos have outnumbered all three combined incidents of malicious actors using technologies like deepfakes to scam people or spread disinformation have risen eight fold since 2022. It highlights that while some kinds of harms might be the result of system limitations like, say, an autonomous vehicle failing to detect a cyclist, other kinds of harm are actually driven by technological improvements, such as in the case of deepfakes, which really makes you wonder, what would that mean if AI got really good at hacking or helping people engineer weapons?

If you want to go deeper on the data, check out my piece for Time magazine. And if you want to keep tabs on AI, follow for more.

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