Thursday, October 8, 2026 · Week 41 Reading for Oct. 8 · Last entry Oct. 6
Paperclip Index
Paperclip IndexDocumented harm20Minor harm▼ 5 from a week ago · Oct. 8The Index

The Index

The Paperclip Index

Documented harm from AI, tracked weekly.

3 qualifying harm records. Extent undisclosed for all 3. 2 older harm records no longer count.

Documented harm
6
No harm found (stated scope)
2
No harm reported
10
Impact unknown
1
Alleged, AI role uncorroborated
0
Counts toward the index
5
Unverified, watching
1
Alleged in court
0
Control failure, tracked
13
Tracked separately
0

Documented exclusions: 1 internal; 0 awaiting evidence review. 0 qualifying records with a bounded single-source review.

Inspect the evidence · 19 records

Status totals cover counted records; aliases, superseded aggregates and records tracked separately are excluded. Eligibility and extent notes overlap those totals. These observations are not statistical uncertainty bounds.

Status watch · 11

Current assessments across all report dates; leaving the window does not mean resolved.

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The harms that count

Incidents by impact

NegligibleCatastrophic

The scale

One harm opens its band. Ten at that level fill it. The calculation