Ask HN: What will be the first AI “incident”?

Progress is clearly accelerating.

We haven’t had any major incidents yet, right?

We’ve seen some mischievous disruption in education, confusion around “deepfakes”, social media algorithms getting a little too good, and are teetering on the edge of a paradigm shift in human knowledge.

But realistically, what will the first serious incident look like?

Would love to hear some well reasoned predictions of historic firsts we might be in store for.

The world will scramble to find a way to authenticate any official content that's shared over social media. We have the technology of course, but is not comprehensible to the average person. Twitter will roll out a content verification system, and soon after fake content will manage to pass verification.

Malicious AI-generated fake "news" causing real world incidents will be the main topic of 2023.

Trust in the social media, tech giants and the Internet, for the first time since its inception, has peaked and will be in uneasy waters for a few years. This will reflect the situation of the tech sector as a whole. Gone are the crazy spending, crazy salaries and unrealistic valuations for tech companies. Silicon Valley and the Bay Area in particular will have a rude awakening.

(Please don't reach too much into this. Even though I believe there is a core of truth, I have no crystal ball)

Haven't we already seen this: accidents due to auto-pilot driving?