AI incidents documented harms will go up way higher beyond the already-reported rise.
Predictor: Dave Blundin · ep#248 "Sam Altman's Attack, Amazon vs. Starlink, and What Opus 4.7 Actually Means | #248" · source
Prediction text
AI incidents documented harms will go up way higher beyond the already-reported rise. | if you look at the last bullet AI incidents, you know, that's going up, but it's going to go way way up.
Verbatim quote
if you look at the last bullet AI incidents, you know, that's going up, but it's going to go way way up.
Predictor: Dave Blundin
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- 2025-10-31hitAI Incident Database YoY growth surpasses 50%How: Stanford AI Index / TIME / Our World in Data report ≥50% YoY growth in documented AI incidents through October 2025Source: https://time.com/7346091/ai-harm-risk/ — incidents already surpassed 2024 total in first 10 months of 2025conf 97%Notes: HIT — Stanford AI Index confirms incidents up 50%+ YoY 2022→2024 and exceeded 2024 total within 10 months of 2025.
- 2026-01-31hitAI Incident Database adds ≥100 new incidents in three-month windowHow: AI Incident Database adds 100+ new incident IDs in a three-month rolling window (e.g., Nov 2025 - Jan 2026)Source: https://incidentdatabase.ai/blog/incident-report-2025-november-december-2026-january/ — 108 new incident IDs added Nov 2025 - Jan 2026conf 99%Notes: HIT — 108 incidents IDs added in the Nov-Jan window.
- 2026-04-15hitStanford AI Index 2026 documents 8x growth in malicious-actor AI use vs 2022How: Stanford AI Index 2026 release reports malicious-actor AI use rose 8x or more since 2022Source: https://time.com/7346091/ai-harm-risk/conf 95%Notes: HIT — 8-fold growth in malicious-actor AI use since 2022 documented.
- 2026-04-01hitDeepfake-driven incidents continue to outnumber autonomous vehicle / facial recognition incidentsHow: Stanford AI Index / OECD AI Incidents Monitor / TIME data confirm deepfake video incidents continue exceeding combined autonomous vehicle + facial recognition + content moderation incidentsSource: OECD AI Incidents Monitor, Stanford AI Index 2026conf 85%Notes: HIT — TIME / Our World in Data confirm deepfake-related incidents now outnumber the prior top 3 categories combined.
- 2026-08-01 → 2027-08-31pendingMajor regulatory reporting requirement (EU AI Act incident reporting / US executive order) goes liveHow: EU AI Act mandatory incident reporting provisions or equivalent US federal incident-reporting program enters full enforcement, materially increasing the database denominatorSource: EU AI Act timeline, US OSTP / NIST AISI announcementsconf 55%Notes: Mandatory reporting would step-change the documented-harms count, directly evidencing 'way way up'.
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Edges that influence THIS node's belief
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| killer | TK09 Energy Grid Cap (Data Center Power Wall) | 35.0% | 0.050 | 0.600 | -0.088 |
| prereq | SEM_015 Nvidia agreed to remit 15% of China chip-sale revenue direct — Jensen Huang | 66.3% | 0.600 | 0.050 | -0.076 |
| prereq | SEM_027 Nvidia Data Center revenue +66% YoY, contributing ~90% of $5 — Joseph Moore | 68.3% | 0.600 | 0.050 | -0.075 |
| killer | TK05 Rate Regime Persistence (10y > 5% through 2028) | 30.0% | 0.050 | 0.600 | -0.060 |
| killer | TK03 AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | 10.0% | 0.050 | 0.600 | +0.050 |
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Predictions THIS node influences
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 248_040 Pausing AI will fail and only accelerate race dynamics. — Alex Wissner-Gross | 53.0% | 0.920 | 0.050 | -0.056 |
| prereq | 247_023 AI will be able to do everything a white collar worker does — Dave Blundin | 40.8% | 0.720 | 0.050 | -0.031 |
| prereq | 242_031 Most large companies' business models will be disrupted in 2 — Peter Diamandis | 36.1% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.018 |
| prereq | 232_055 We're exiting the industrial age permanently as recursive se — Peter Diamandis | 35.5% | 0.700 | 0.050 | +0.013 |
| prereq | 244_019 Peter's son won't need a driver's license in 2 years — Peter Diamandis | 48.4% | 0.920 | 0.050 | -0.010 |
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Beneficiaries (24)
Adverse (6)
Prerequisites (10)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | SEM_011 | Nvidia became the world's first $5 trillion company (late 2025), operating a near-monopoly on advanced AI chips. | Capital Markets | — |
| prereq | SEM_027 | Nvidia Data Center revenue +66% YoY, contributing ~90% of $57B fiscal Q3 revenue; >$4.5T market cap entirely underpinned by AI silicon. | Capital Markets | — |
| prereq | SEM_014 | Nvidia's Arizona-based TSMC factory successfully fabricated cutting-edge semiconductors on US soil for first time in decades (October 2025). | Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_012 | Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering. | AI/Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_015 | Nvidia agreed to remit 15% of China chip-sale revenue directly to US government in exchange for reversing specific AI chip export bans. | Policy/Semis | — |
| killer | TK09 | Energy Grid Cap (Data Center Power Wall) | — | — |
| killer | TK05 | Rate Regime Persistence (10y > 5% through 2028) | — | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK02 | AI Compute Supply Shock (TSMC/Taiwan Disruption) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
Dependents (5)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 244_019 | Peter's son won't need a driver's license in 2 years | Auto/Transport | — |
| prereq | 248_040 | Pausing AI will fail and only accelerate race dynamics. | AI | — |
| prereq | 247_023 | AI will be able to do everything a white collar worker does imminently | AI | — |
| prereq | 232_055 | We're exiting the industrial age permanently as recursive self-improvement unfolds. | AI | — |
| prereq | 242_031 | Most large companies' business models will be disrupted in 2-5 years | Markets/Stocks | — |
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