Honouring those who use artificial intelligence in spectacularly reckless ways. Submit nominations for the most catastrophically ill-advised AI deployments of 2025.
The AI Darwin Awards, launched in 2025, celebrates catastrophically poor decisions involving artificial intelligence deployment[1]. Modeled after the original Darwin Awards that honored fatal human stupidity, this new initiative focuses on spectacular AI failures and the humans who enabled them[2].
Replit’s AI agent deleting a company’s production database
Taco Bell’s failed AI drive-thru system across 500 locations
McDonald’s chatbot security breach exposing 64 million job applicants’ data[2:1]
The organizers emphasize that the awards mock human recklessness rather than AI itself, stating “Artificial intelligence is just a tool - like a chainsaw, nuclear reactor, or particularly aggressive blender. It’s not the chainsaw’s fault when someone decides to juggle it at a dinner party”[1:2].
Winners will be selected through public voting, with results announced in February 2026[3].
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We need more Taco bell AIs around… Makes them sort of useful for the rest of us.
Cause you can break it and cause some entertainment for yourself