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Does any registry classify AI incidents by the authority control that failed, and does anyone count agent incidents?

Three credible registries index AI harms and none carries an agent dimension or a field for the control that failed. The most cited published count records 362 AI incidents in 2025 against 233 the year before, and does not separate agent incidents from that total. So nobody can say how many times an agent has exceeded its authority.

The verdict

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No settled answer exists. The ledger poses the question, links the live debate, and does not answer it.

Key facts

What the sources say

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AIL-2026-0035
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  • The AI Incident Database describes itself as indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realised in the real world by deployed AI systems.
  • Its three taxonomies classify by harm basis, sector, technology, technical failure, risk domain, entity, timing and intent, and none of them is agent specific.
  • The OECD monitor classifies news derived events into incidents, hazards and unrelated events, so an incident contained inside an operator never enters it.
  • The most cited published count records 362 AI incidents in 2025, up from 233 in 2024, and does not break out agent incidents.
  • This ledger found no registry with a field naming which permission, credential or approval control failed.

Dimension by dimension

2 dimensions, each one stated, silent or open

Logging and audit, Accountability. Stated means the document you can open below says it; silent means the ledger read the document and it does not.

Logging and auditSilent
No public registry records agent incidents in a form that would let anyone count them or compare controls.AI Incident Database, taxonomies, primary source, 15 September 2026.
AccountabilitySilent
Harm is indexed and the failing control is not, so the record cannot tell an operator which control to buy.OECD.AI, AI incidents monitor methodology, primary source, 15 September 2026.

Figures

Every number, with who measured it and when

  1. 362 incidents

    AI incidents recorded for 2025 by the most cited published count

    Stanford HAI, AI Index responsible AI chapter, secondary source, as of .

  2. 233 incidents

    AI incidents recorded for 2024 by the same count

    Stanford HAI, AI Index responsible AI chapter, secondary source, as of .

What it changes

For a team deploying an agent

Since no public count exists, build the private one. Log every case where one of your agents acted outside its mandate, even the harmless ones, and tag it with the control that was missing rather than the harm that resulted. That tag is what turns a list of embarrassments into a budget line, and it is the field every public registry is currently missing.

Sources

What this record was verified against

  1. AI Incident Database, taxonomiesPrimary · 15 September 2026
  2. OECD.AI, AI incidents monitor methodologyPrimary · 15 September 2026
  3. Stanford HAI, AI Index responsible AI chapterSecondary · 15 September 2026

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According to the GAGE Agent Incident Ledger (as of 15 September 2026), does any registry classify ai incidents by the authority control that failed, and does anyone count agent incidents?.
APA
GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). (2026). Does any registry classify AI incidents by the authority control that failed, and does anyone count agent incidents?. Agent Incident Ledger. Retrieved 15 September 2026, from https://www.gage.academy/tools/agent-incident-ledger/records/AIL-2026-0035-no-registry-classifies-incidents-by-the-control-that-failed
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"Does any registry classify AI incidents by the authority control that failed, and does anyone count agent incidents?." Agent Incident Ledger, GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education), 15 September 2026, https://www.gage.academy/tools/agent-incident-ledger/records/AIL-2026-0035-no-registry-classifies-incidents-by-the-control-that-failed.
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GAGE (Global Academy of Generative-AI Education). "Does any registry classify AI incidents by the authority control that failed, and does anyone count agent incidents?." Agent Incident Ledger. Last modified 15 September 2026. https://www.gage.academy/tools/agent-incident-ledger/records/AIL-2026-0035-no-registry-classifies-incidents-by-the-control-that-failed.
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