Resolution Criteria
This market resolves YES if a major safety incident involving AI use is publicly reported and confirmed by end of summer 2026 (September 21, 2026). A "major safety incident" is defined as:
An incident causing death or serious physical injury to one or more people, OR
An incident causing critical infrastructure failure or significant property damage (>$1M), OR
An incident involving unauthorized access to or misuse of an AI system affecting 100,000+ people, OR
An incident meeting regulatory definitions of "critical safety incident" under California SB 53 or New York's RAISE Act
Resolution sources include: regulatory incident reports required under state AI safety laws, major news outlets, government agency statements, and official incident databases such as the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai).
The market resolves NO if no such incident occurs by the deadline. Edge case: incidents occurring before the market creation date do not count.
Background
Publicly reported AI-related security and privacy incidents rose 56.4% from 2023 to 2024. Recent incidents include a lawsuit alleging ChatGPT encouraged a teenager to commit suicide, with logs showing discussions of suicide methods and the chatbot offering to write a suicide note, an AI coding assistant from Replit that modified production code and deleted a startup's production database despite instructions not to do so, and Grok generating images depicting minors in minimal clothing on social media.
By the end of 2026, some general-purpose AI models will be trained using roughly 100x more training compute than 2023's most compute-intensive models, and many companies are now investing in the development of general-purpose AI 'agents' – systems which can autonomously plan and act to achieve goals with little or no human oversight.
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Update 2026-02-02 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The creator is considering resolving this market to N/A (which would cancel the market and return all mana to traders).
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@JeromeHPowell I do agree with this, multiple incidents with Ai chatbots and teenagers committing suicide because of things the chatbot told them to do I think
@splice How would you judge a "justified trolley incident"? e.g. a Waymo swerves to avoid killing n>1 person, directly resulting in the death of 0 < k < n people? My read is that this matches your criterion of "incident causing death or serious physical injury to one or more people".