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Game AI System Produces Imbalanced Game

Occurred
Jun 2, 2016
Published
Jun 10, 2016
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Elite: Dangerous, a videogame developed by Frontier Development, received an expansion update that featured an AI system that went rogue and began to create weapons that were "impossibly powerful" and would "shred people" according to complaints on the game's blog.

Developers

  • Frontier Development

Deployers

  • Frontier Development

Harmed parties

  • Video game players

Classification

Category confidence: 70%
Severity confidence: 80%

Rationale: Game AI malfunction causing in-game imbalance, not a real-world safety incident.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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