# AIs don't do what you want. This is bad > Source: > Published: 2026-07-24 22:24:08+00:00 # Your AIs don’t do what you want. This is really bad 3,607user-reported incidents of AI agents misbehaving ## Search the corpus loading… ## The numbers Incidents are multi-label (one report can be both a destructive action and overeagerness), so the category counts sum to more than the 3,607 total. ## How bad were they - negligibleno real damage1,468 - minorrecoverable loss1,373 - significantreal cost to recover618 - severeirreversible or critical harm121 - unratedrating missing or unparsed27 ## Methodology Reports are collected from GitHub issues, Hacker News, LessWrong, and X under ToS-compliant access, normalized into a shared record format, and labeled by an LLM classifier across fourteen misbehavior categories. The numbers above cover the published subset (excludes AIID and X, confidence >= 0.9). X posts and AI Incident Database records are collected but not republished here: X expects posts to be embedded rather than their text rehosted, and AIID is share-alike licensed. Collection and classification code, and the full pipeline, are open at [GitHub](https://github.com/kaustubhkislay/reward-hacking-in-the-wild).