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High Severity Incidents

Filter incidents by harm severity threshold to identify which risk domains concentrate the most serious real-world harms. Bars are stacked by domain, with controls to adjust the severity cutoff, focus on a specific harm category, or switch between count and proportion views.

How to read this

Each bar represents a year. Colored segments show the share of high-severity incidents belonging to each risk domain. Use the Category filter to focus on a specific harm type (e.g. Physical Harm, Loss of Privacy). The threshold toggle switches between medium-or-higher (≥3) and high-only (≥4) severity. Switch to Proportion mode to compare domain shares across years. Click any bar segment to view matching incidents.

Key Takeaways

1.440 incidents have at least one harm category scoring ≥3 (medium or higher).
2.Malicious Actors & Misuse is the most represented domain among high-severity incidents at 37%.
3.Toxic or Malicious Content is the most common high-severity category with 178 incidents.
4.High-severity incidents are concentrated in recent years, reflecting both increased AI deployment and improved incident tracking.

Discrimination & Toxicity

Privacy & Security

Misinformation

Malicious Actors & Misuse

Human-Computer Interaction

Socioeconomic & Environmental

AI System Safety, Failures & Limitations