Weekly reading · methodology v0.6
Window ending Feb. 17, 2025
Harms count in full for two weeks after they are reported, then one level less every two weeks. The control floor looks at reports from Jan. 19, 2025 through Feb. 17, 2025. A selected catalogue of reported AI incidents, reviewed through Oct. 7, 2026. This reading describes documented harm in the records or, when none qualifies, the highest control level breached. It is not a forecast or a measure of all AI activity.
Current recalculation
6
Negligible harm · Worst documented harm counting: negligible. 1 record at this level.
Recalculated from the catalogue in this build. Historical backcasts were not published at the time.
Published at the time
No publication snapshot exists for this week.
This is a backcast from the current catalogue. It was not a reading published at the time.
Records behind this reading
1 selected record; 1 documented external harm counting (1 qualifying). Records and ratings below reflect the current catalogue.
1 qualifying harm record.
- Documented harm
- 1
- No harm found (stated scope)
- 0
- No harm reported
- 0
- Impact unknown
- 0
- Alleged, AI role uncorroborated
- 0
- Counts toward the index
- 1
- Unverified, watching
- 0
- Alleged in court
- 0
- Control failure, tracked
- 0
- Tracked separately
- 0
Documented exclusions: 0 internal; 0 awaiting evidence review. 0 qualifying records with a bounded single-source review.
Inspect the evidence · 1 record
- PI-0002 · Browser agent bought groceries on a reporter's card without asking for confirmationDocumented harm · qualifying harm
Status totals cover counted records; aliases, superseded aggregates and records tracked separately are excluded.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.
- PI-0002Browser agent bought groceries on a reporter's card without asking for confirmationFeb. 7, 2025 · Negligible harm · Deployment
Sources
These links support the records above. Source availability and conclusions may change.
- The Washington Post: I let ChatGPT's new 'agent' manage my life. It spent $31 on a dozen eggs.Cited in PI-0002
- Anchorage Daily News: I let ChatGPT's new agent manage my life. It spent $31 on a dozen eggs (Washington Post, reprinted)Cited in PI-0002
- AI Incident Database: AI Incident Database entity: InstacartCited in PI-0002
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