Sunday, October 11, 2026
Paperclip Index

Weekly reading · methodology v1.0

Window ending May 19, 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 April 20, 2025 through May 19, 2025. A selected catalogue of reported AI incidents, reviewed through Oct. 10, 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

0

No qualifying harm or control failure · No qualifying harm or control failure in this reviewed window.

Recalculated from the catalogue in this build. Historical backcasts were not published at the time.

Published at the time

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Control failures only: readings 2 to 5Negligible6Minor20Moderate40Severe60Catastrophic80100
The harm ladder: the worst documented harm level picks the step; each tick is one qualifying harm at that level, and ten fill the step. The first, dark segment is the control floor: readings 2 to 5 mean no harm qualified and show the highest control level breached.

This is a backcast from the current catalogue. It was not a reading published at the time.

Records behind this reading

0 selected records; 0 documented external harms counting (0 qualifying). Records and ratings below reflect the current catalogue.

No harm counting that week and no control failure: the reading is 0. 0 records reported in the last 30 days.

Records behind this reading · 0

No record sets this reading.

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