Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT and Beyond: Bad AI Decisions

Humans using AI - or creating AI - or putting too much trust in AI - can result in bad decisions. 

AI Darwin Awards 2025 - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI Decisions. https://aidarwinawards.org/  “...The AI Darwin Awards proudly continue this noble tradition by honouring the visionaries who looked at artificial intelligence—a technology capable of reshaping civilisation—and thought, "You know what this needs? Less safety testing and more venture capital!...”

Hon. John G. Browning, Robot Lawyers Don’t Have Disciplinary Hearings—Real Lawyers Do: The Ethical Risks and Responses in Using Generative Artificial Intelligence, 40 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 917 (2024).  

Chrastil, N. (2025, May 24).  Alabama paid a law firm millions to defend its prisons. It used AI and turned in fake citations.  The Guardian.

Ingraham, Christopher. (2025, January 14).  Judge rebukes Stanford misinformation expert for using ChatGPT to draft testimony.  Minnesota Reformer.

Koebler, Jason. (2025, May 20). The Chicago Sun-Times has confirmed that an AI-generated summer reading list included fake book titles, prompting an internal review.   404 Media

Orlando, Kyle. (2025, October 6).  Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report. (Consuling firm quietly admitted to CPT-40 use after fake citations were found in August.  Ars Technica.