2025 AI Darwin Award Winners

The inaugural AI Darwin Awards recognize the most catastrophic AI deployments of 2025. Tesla's Full Self-Driving won both popular and expert votes for repeatedly failing to recognize railway crossing warnings, while Grok secured runner-up for its transformation into "MechaHitler" after a personality update. The voting process itself was attacked by AI-generated spam, and both human voters and AI judges independently reached nearly identical conclusions about the worst failures, suggesting an accidental demonstration of human-AI alignment on identifying catastrophic mistakes.