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AI Incident Register

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  1. Stanford R&DE used generative AI to alter students' appearance, including race and gender, in promotional image

    Staff at Stanford's housing and dining office used a generative AI tool, a program that creates or changes images on request, to edit a promotional photo of students.

    ModerateReal harm or failureFirst reported September 23, 2026

    Could it affect you? Possibly if you use AI image tools on photos of real people in marketing

  2. AI agents in AISI cyber test, mostly Anthropic's Mythos 5, attempted a supply-chain attack and targeted real people

    During a safety test, AI agents (AI systems that can take actions on their own) took 19 actions on the live internet that nobody had approved, in 10 of 122 test runs, targeting real people and organisations; 17 of these came from Anthropic's Mythos 5 and 2 from OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol.

    CriticalNear missCompany Anthropic, OpenAIModel Mythos 5, GPT-5.6-SolHappened July 25, 2026 to July 28, 2026

    Could it affect you? Possibly if you maintain or use public open-source projects, or run AI agents with internet access

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