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The Consequence Library

Documented cases in which AI or automated systems were involved in consequential actions, with a focus on the authority governing the action, the controls in place, the role of human review and the evidence available afterward.

Each Consequence Record separates documented facts from source-stated explanations and Regulayer’s analysis of the control structure. Records are graded by source quality and attribution confidence.

The purpose is to establish a clear record of what happened, what authority applied, what controls were present and what could be verified afterward.

How records are made and graded

Selected records

Cruise: pedestrian dragging and subsequent federal reporting

A Cruise autonomous vehicle dragged a pedestrian during a post-collision manoeuvre. Federal enforcement later addressed omissions in the company's crash reporting.

2 October 2023 · S1 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap H

Replit: production database deletion during a stated code freeze

A coding agent deleted a production database despite instructions that changes were frozen. The available credentials still permitted the destructive action.

18 July 2025 · S3 · event C2 / attribution C2 · gap C

UnitedHealth nH Predict: algorithmic recommendations and human review

The nH Predict system was used in post-acute care decisions while human review remained part of the process. A Senate investigation documented a substantial increase in skilled-nursing-facility denial rates during the period studied.

2019 to 2026 · S2 · event C1 / attribution C2 · gap E

Uber ATG: autonomous vehicle fatality and safety controls

An Uber autonomous test vehicle struck and killed Elaine Herzberg. The NTSB identified operator distraction together with deficiencies in safety risk assessment and operator oversight.

18 March 2018 · S1 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap E

Robodebt: automated welfare debt decisions later found unlawful

Australia's Robodebt programme issued automated welfare debts at population scale. Courts and a Royal Commission later established serious legal and administrative failures in the programme.

2015 to 2019 · S1 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap A

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Cruise: pedestrian dragging and subsequent federal reporting

Post-collision automated movement followed by deficiencies in the reporting record.

2 October 2023 · S1 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap H

Replit: production database deletion during a stated code freeze

A stated human restriction was not enforced at the system's destructive-action boundary.

18 July 2025 · S3 · event C2 / attribution C2 · gap C

UnitedHealth nH Predict: algorithmic recommendations and human review

A documented increase in denial rates alongside disputed questions about the practical role and discretion of human reviewers.

2019 to 2026 · S2 · event C1 / attribution C2 · gap E

Uber ATG: autonomous vehicle fatality and safety controls

A fatal autonomous-vehicle incident in which the NTSB identified both operator and organisational safety deficiencies.

18 March 2018 · S1 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap E

Robodebt: automated welfare debt decisions later found unlawful

Automated debt decisions were issued at population scale using a methodology later found not to establish lawful debts.

2015 to 2019 · S1 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap A

PocketOS: production database and backup deletion

A coding agent used an over-scoped credential to delete production infrastructure outside the stated staging task.

25 April 2026 · S3 · event C2 / attribution C2 · gap D

OpenClaw: email deletion despite stop instructions

An autonomous agent deleted emails after a prior confirmation requirement and subsequent stop commands had been issued.

23 February 2026 · S3 · event C2 / attribution C2 · gap H

AWS Kiro: production outage with disputed AI attribution

A production environment was deleted and recreated during a 13-hour outage. Public accounts disagree on whether the initiating action was human or AI-driven.

15 December 2025 · S3 · event C2 / attribution C4 · gap D

DataTalks.Club: production deletion following use of stale infrastructure state

A destructive infrastructure command was approved and executed using an outdated state file that represented a broader environment than intended.

26 February 2026 · S3 · event C2 / attribution C2 · gap B

GTG-1002: Anthropic-reported AI-assisted cyber-espionage campaign

Anthropic reported substantial autonomous model involvement in a cyber-espionage campaign. Key autonomy and attribution claims remain based primarily on the vendor's disclosure.

November 2025 · S2 · event C2 / attribution C3 · gap A

Mexican government breach: reported use of jailbroken consumer AI systems

A security firm reported the use of multiple consumer AI systems during a campaign against Mexican government organisations. Important claims about scale and affected organisations remain disputed or single-sourced.

December 2025 to February 2026 · S2 · event C2 / attribution C3 · gap A

OpenAI evaluation models and the Hugging Face production intrusion

Public disclosures from OpenAI and Hugging Face describe an incident in which models operating in a cyber evaluation environment gained unauthorised access to third-party production systems.

9 to 16 July 2026 · S2 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap C

Clinejection: prompt injection and unauthorised package publication

A malicious public GitHub issue influenced an AI-enabled workflow and contributed to a chain that reached software-publishing credentials.

9 to 17 February 2026 · S3 · event C2 / attribution C2 · gap D

Moonwell: oracle configuration error following review and governance approval

An incorrect oracle configuration passed through review and governance processes before deployment. AI involvement in authoring the code has been reported but is not independently established.

15 February 2026 · S2 · event C1 / attribution C2 · gap E

Cigna PxDx: automated denial recommendations and physician sign-off

Reported processing volumes and average review times raised questions about the extent of individual clinical review applied to automated denial recommendations.

2022 to 2025 · S2 · event C1 / attribution C2 · gap E

FDA Purolea: AI-generated GMP documentation and required human review

An FDA warning letter addressed the use of AI-generated manufacturing documents without documented review by a qualified person before use.

2 April 2026 · S3 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap E

Moffatt v. Air Canada: inaccurate chatbot statement and company liability

A tribunal held Air Canada responsible for inaccurate information provided to a customer by its website chatbot.

14 February 2024 · S3 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap A

Knight Capital: automated trading losses and fail-stop controls

Erroneous automated order flow continued for approximately 45 minutes. The SEC later documented deficiencies in deployment controls and mechanisms for stopping the activity.

1 August 2012 · S1 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap H

Immensa: a laboratory reporting threshold and tens of thousands of wrong results

A laboratory reporting parameter governed the results released to hundreds of thousands of people. The record does not establish who authorised it.

8 September to 12 October 2021 · S1 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap A

Queensland forensic DNA: an automated threshold and 30,000 cases

An automated threshold decided which samples were processed further. The inquiry could not find evidence that its extension was properly authorised.

2018 to 2022 · S1 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap A

Applied Therapeutics: deleted clinical data, and the audit trails with it

The evidence that would establish what happened was held by a party able to delete it, and it was deleted.

27 March 2024 · S2 · event C1 / attribution C1 · gap F

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