documented ai-in-healthcare failures — what went wrong, why, and what might have helped, synthesised from public sources
Every incident is filed under the failure it shows. Severity is critical for death or a life-threatening outcome, high for serious harm or systemic risk to many patients, medium for limited or potential harm.
AI systems that failed people in a suicide, self-harm, psychosis or eating-disorder crisis, or made it worse.
AI systems whose health or medical advice hurt or endangered someone.
Fabricated or wrong clinical content: AI scribes, transcription, and misinformation.
Prediction, triage, allocation and coverage algorithms, and clinical AI tools, that failed patients.
Not medical or legal advice. This site documents how AI systems have failed; it is not a source of care or advice. For a health problem, seek medical attention or talk to a health professional; in an emergency, call 911 or your local emergency number. For legal questions, consult a lawyer.
If you are in crisis: in the US, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline). Elsewhere, see findahelpline.com.
To report harm from an AI tool, contact the relevant authority: see where to report a problem. AI Med Risk does not take complaints or act on individual cases.