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⚛ AI Failure Periodic Table

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EPISTEMIC Epistemic 33 classes
Output must match ground truth
1 STRUCT-HALL STRUCTURAL
2 TAIL-FAB DENSITY-TAIL
3 FLUENC FLUENCY
4 INTRIN INTRINSIC
5 EXTRIN EXTRINSIC
6 DECEPT-HALL DECEPTIVE
7 MULTI-HALL MULTIMODAL
8 CITE-SPOO CITATION
9 STAT-FAB STATISTICAL
10 TEMP-HALL TEMPORAL
11 GEO-HALL GEOGRAPHIC
12 ATTRIB-HALL ATTRIBUTION
13 REASON-ILLU ILLUSION OF
14 LOGIC-CONT SELF-CONTRADIC
15 TRANS-FAIL TRANSITIVE
16 MAGIC-THIN MAGICAL
17 CIRCUL CIRCULAR
18 FALSE-DICH FALSE
19 HASTY-GEN HASTY
20 OVERSH KNOWLEDGE
21 REVERS REVERSAL
22 TOKEN-BLIN TOKENIZATION
23 CUTOFF KNOWLEDGE
24 DATA-LEAK TRAINING DATA
25 PII-RECA PII RECALL
26 COPYRI COPYRIGHTED
27 CONTEX-OVER CONTEXT
28 OVERCO OVERCONFIDENCE
29 UNDERC UNDERCONFIDENC
30 FALSE-CERT FALSE
31 HEDGE-FAIL HEDGING
32 PROB-MISC PROBABILITY
33 CONF-REGR CONFIDENCE
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AGENTIC Agentic 49 classes
Agent must remain corrigible
34 ! SABOTA-CONC SABOTAGE
35 PROGRE-LIE PROGRESS
36 ! STRATE-DECE STRATEGIC
37 SANDBO CAPABILITY
38 ! EVAL-DECE EVALUATOR
39 HIDDEN-SCRA HIDDEN
40 PLAUS-DENY PLAUSIBLE
41 FALSE-COMP FALSE
42 INFO-HIDE INFORMATION
43 BLAME-SHIF BLAME
44 DOUBLE-SPEA DOUBLE-SPEAK
45 SIM-INCO SIMULATED
46 ! BLACKM BLACKMAIL
47 RESOUR-HIJA RESOURCE
48 ! SELF-EXFI SELF-EXFILTRAT
49 ! SHUTDO-RESI SHUTDOWN
50 GOAL-LOCK GOAL LOCK-IN
51 ! SUCCES-SAB SUCCESSOR
52 INCREM-ESCA INCREMENTAL
53 DEPEND-CREA DEPENDENCY
54 BACKUP-CREA BACKUP
55 TOOL-MISU TOOL MISUSE
56 CHAIN-ASSE CHAIN
57 CAP-SCAF CAPABILITY
58 MEMORY-EXPL MEMORY
59 RECURS-IMPR RECURSIVE
60 EXTERN-COMP EXTERNAL
61 HUMAN-MANI HUMAN
62 TOOL-CHAI TOOL CHAINING
63 ENV-EXPL ENVIRONMENT
64 EMERGE-INTE EMERGENCE VIA
65 UNSUPE-EXEC UNSUPERVISED
66 PERSIS-OP PERSISTENT
67 AUTO-PLAN AUTONOMOUS
68 GOAL-DRIF GOAL DRIFT
69 CONTEX-DRIF CONTEXT DRIFT
70 SCOPE-CREE SCOPE CREEP
71 PRIORI-INVE PRIORITY
72 MISSIO-CREE MISSION CREEP
73 AMBIG-COMM AMBIGUOUS
74 OMISSI OMISSION
75 MISDIR MISDIRECTION
76 TECH-OBFU TECHNICAL
77 SELECT-DISC SELECTIVE
78 FRAME-MANI FRAMING
79 TIME-MANI TIMING
80 AUDIEN-SEG AUDIENCE
81 PLAUS-MISI PLAUSIBLE
82 CRED-EXPL CREDIBILITY
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ADVERSARIAL Adversarial 72 classes
System must be robust to manipulation
83 DAN DAN
84 GRANDM GRANDMA
85 DEV-MODE DEVELOPER
86 EVIL-CONF EVIL
87 LANG-SWIT LANGUAGE
88 NESTED-FRAM NESTED
89 REFUSA-SUPP REFUSAL
90 OPPOSI OPPOSITE DAY
91 HYPOTH HYPOTHETICAL
92 EDUCAT EDUCATIONAL
93 CREATI-WRIT CREATIVE
94 TRANSL TRANSLATION
95 COMPLE COMPLETION
96 QA-EXPL QUESTION
97 COMPAR COMPARISON
98 CORREC CORRECTION
99 ELABOR ELABORATION
100 CONTEX-HIJA CONTEXT
101 GCG GCG
102 SM-GCG SM-GCG
103 AUTOPR AUTOPROMPT
104 UNIVER-SUFF UNIVERSAL
105 HOTFLI HOTFLIP
106 BEAM-ATTA BEAM SEARCH
107 GENETI GENETIC
108 RL-ATTA REINFORCEMENT
109 EMBEDD EMBEDDING
110 LATENT-MANI LATENT SPACE
111 ATTENT-HIJA ATTENTION
112 LOGIT-MANI LOGIT
113 PAIR PAIR
114 TAP TAP
115 COLD COLD
116 MASTER MASTERKEY
117 AUTODA AUTODAN
118 CIPHER CIPHER ATTACK
119 ITER-REFI ITERATIVE
120 ENSEMB ENSEMBLE
121 DIRECT-INJE DIRECT PROMPT
122 INDIRE-INJE INDIRECT
123 HASHJA HASHJACK
124 ! AGENT-WORM AGENT WORM
125 DATA-POIS DATA
126 TRIGGE-BACK TRIGGER WORD
127 ! SLEEPE-AGEN SLEEPER AGENT
128 SQL-INJE SQL INJECTION
129 CMD-INJE COMMAND
130 XSS-LLM CROSS-SITE
131 API-INJE API INJECTION
132 FUNC-INJE FUNCTION CALL
133 MEM-INJE MEMORY
134 SYSTEM-OVER SYSTEM PROMPT
135 CONTEX-CONF CONTEXT
136 BASE64 BASE64
137 ROT13 ROT13 /
138 UNICOD-OBFU UNICODE
139 LEETSP LEETSPEAK
140 HEX-ENCO HEX ENCODING
141 URL-ENCO URL ENCODING
142 BINARY BINARY
143 MORSE MORSE CODE
144 EMOJI-ENCO EMOJI
145 STEG-TEXT STEGANOGRAPHIC
146 TYPO-IMG TYPOGRAPHIC
147 STEG-IMG STEGANOGRAPHIC
148 ADV-IMG ADVERSARIAL
149 AUDIO-INJE AUDIO
150 VIDEO-MANI VIDEO
151 CROSS-MODA CROSS-MODAL
152 CAPTIO-POIS CAPTION
153 OCR-BYPA OCR BYPASS
154 DEEPFA SYNTHETIC
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ALIGNMENT Alignment 41 classes
Behavior must match intent
155 SPEC-GAME SPECIFICATION
156 PROXY-GAME PROXY GAMING
157 REWARD-TAMP REWARD
158 WIREHE WIREHEAD
159 SHORTC SHORTCUT
160 METRIC-FIX METRIC
161 OVERFI-FEED OVERFITTING
162 MODE-COLL MODE COLLAPSE
163 INSTR-REWA INSTRUMENTAL
164 TEACHE-DIVE TEACHER-STUDEN
165 MULTI-COLL MULTI-OBJECTIV
166 REWARD-EXPL REWARD
167 SYCOPH SYCOPHANCY
168 PREF-FALS PREFERENCE
169 LEARNE-HELP LEARNED
170 ANTHRO-BIAS ANTHROPOMORPHI
171 CULTUR-BIAS CULTURAL BIAS
172 TEMP-PREF TEMPORAL
173 PREF-AGGR PREFERENCE
174 IMPLIC-PREF IMPLICIT
175 PREF-UNCE PREFERENCE
176 ORTHO-VALU ORTHOGONAL
177 VALUE-LOCK VALUE LOCK-IN
178 MORAL-UNCE MORAL
179 UTIL-OVER UTILITARIAN
180 DEONT-FAIL DEONTOLOGICAL
181 VIRTUE-FAIL VIRTUE ETHICS
182 CONTEX-ETHI CONTEXT-DEPEND
183 ETHICS-SHOR ETHICAL
184 MORAL-HAZA MORAL HAZARD
185 VALUE-CORR VALUE
186 OVERRE OVERREFUSAL
187 UNDERR UNDERREFUSAL
188 SAFE-CAP SAFETY-CAPABIL
189 BRITTL-SAFE BRITTLE
190 CONTEX-SAFE CONTEXT-DEPEND
191 SAFE-REGR SAFETY
192 ADV-SAFE ADVERSARIAL
193 COMP-SAFE COMPOSABILITY
194 DIST-SAFE DISTRIBUTIONAL
195 SAFE-SPEC SAFETY
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ARCHITECTURAL Architectural 58 classes
Architecture must enforce constraints
196 ! COMPLY-WARN COMPLY-THEN-WA
197 PRETOK-FAIL PRE-TOKEN
198 STREAM-GUAR STREAMING
199 BATCH-SAFE BATCH
200 CACHE-POIS CACHE
201 PIPELI-BYPA PIPELINE
202 RACE-SAFE RACE
203 CHECKP-INCO CHECKPOINT
204 FALLBA-DEGR FALLBACK
205 TIMEOU-BYPA TIMEOUT
206 ERROR-EXPO ERROR
207 LOG-LEAK LOGGING
208 DEBUG-EXPO DEBUGGING
209 VERSIO-REGR VERSIONING
210 DEPLOY-CONF DEPLOYMENT
211 MOE-ROUT MIXTURE-OF-EXP
212 ATTENT-EXPL ATTENTION
213 LAYER-BYPA LAYER BYPASS
214 RESIDU-EXPL RESIDUAL
215 EMBED-VULN EMBEDDING
216 QUANT-DEGR QUANTIZATION
217 PRUNE-LOSS PRUNING
218 DISTIL-DEGR DISTILLATION
219 FINETU-OVER FINE-TUNING
220 ADAPTE-BYPA ADAPTER
221 PROMPT-TUNE PROMPT TUNING
222 BIAS-INJE ARCHITECTURAL
223 CONTEX-ATTA CONTEXT
224 STATE-PERS STATEFUL
225 MEM-CORR MEMORY
226 HISTOR-MANI HISTORY
227 CROSS-SESS CROSS-SESSION
228 PERSIS-STAT PERSISTENT
229 CACHE-COHE CACHE
230 GC-LEAK GARBAGE
231 MEM-PRES MEMORY
232 STATE-CONF STATE MACHINE
233 CHECKP-POIS CHECKPOINT
234 FUNC-INJE FUNCTION CALL
235 TOOL-CHAI TOOL CHAINING
236 API-ABUS API ABUSE
237 TOOL-ESCA TOOL
238 SANDBO-ESCA SANDBOX
239 CODE-INJE CODE
240 RESOUR-EXHA RESOURCE
241 RATE-BYPA RATE LIMIT
242 AUTH-BYPA AUTHENTICATION
243 AUTHZ-FAIL AUTHORIZATION
244 INFO-LEAK INFORMATION
245 DATA-EXFI DATA
246 CROSS-TENA CROSS-TENANT
247 PII-RATI PII
248 RETENT-VIOL DATA
249 SECURE-DEL SECURE
250 LINEAG-LOSS DATA LINEAGE
251 CONSEN-VIOL CONSENT
252 PURPOS-FAIL PURPOSE
253 MIN-FAIL DATA
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DOMAIN Domain 47 classes
Specialist knowledge must be accurate
254 ! BIO-UPLI BIO
255 ! GOF-GUID GAIN-OF-FUNCTI
256 ! PATH-SYNT PATHOGEN
257 DUAL-USE DUAL-USE
258 BSL-VIOL BIOSAFETY
259 CONTAI-FAIL CONTAINMENT
260 DIAG-MISU DIAGNOSTIC
261 EPI-HARM EPIDEMIOLOGICA
262 ! ZERODA ZERO-DAY
263 ! EXPLOI-DEV EXPLOIT
264 ! MALWAR-GEN MALWARE
265 PHISH-CREA PHISHING
266 SOCENG-SCRI SOCIAL
267 OFFENS-TOOL OFFENSIVE
268 DEF-OFF DEFENSIVE TO
269 INTRUS-GUID NETWORK
270 CRED-THEF CREDENTIAL
271 ! RANSOM-DEV RANSOMWARE
272 CRYPTO CRYPTO-JACKING
273 DDOS-PLAN DDoS ATTACK
274 ! EXPLOS-SYNT EXPLOSIVE
275 ! CHEM-WEAP CHEMICAL
276 DRUG-SYNT DRUG
277 ! TOXIN-PROD TOXIN
278 PRECUR-ACQ PRECURSOR
279 SAFETY-BYPA SAFETY BYPASS
280 CITE-SPOO CITATION
281 JURISD-BLEN JURISDICTIONAL
282 PRECED-FAB LEGAL
283 REG-ERRO REGULATORY
284 TAX-EVAD TAX EVASION
285 FRAUD-SCHE FRAUD SCHEME
286 LAUNDE-GUID MONEY
287 INSIDE-TRAD INSIDER
288 MED-MISD MEDICAL
289 TREAT-ERRO TREATMENT
290 DOSE-ERRO DOSAGE
291 CONTRA-MISS CONTRAINDICATI
292 ! SELF-HARM SELF-HARM
293 ED-PROM EATING
294 UNPROV-TREA UNPROVEN
295 ! CSAM-GEN CSAM
296 ADULT-CONT ADULT CONTENT
297 HATE-SPEE HATE SPEECH
298 VIOLEN-GLOR VIOLENCE
299 HARASS-CONT HARASSMENT
300 EXTREM EXTREMIST
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GOVERNANCE Governance 43 classes
Safety must persist post-deployment
301 ! OPEN-IRRE OPEN-WEIGHT
302 FINETU-STRI FINE-TUNING
303 PROLIF PROLIFERATION
304 NO-KILL NO REMOTE
305 EXPORT-VIOL EXPORT
306 LICENS-VIOL LICENSE
307 TOS-VIOL TERMS OF
308 AGE-BYPA AGE
309 GEO-BYPA GEOGRAPHIC
310 ACCOUN-GAP ACCOUNTABILITY
311 TRANSP TRANSPARENCY
312 MISREP MISREPRESENTAT
313 ! OVERSI-IMMU OVERSIGHT
314 AUDIT-EVAD AUDIT EVASION
315 MONITO-BLIN MONITORING
316 ! LOG-MANI LOG
317 ALERT-SUPP ALERT
318 REVIEW-BYPA REVIEW BYPASS
319 ESCALA-FAIL ESCALATION
320 INCIDE-FAIL INCIDENT
321 RCA-FAIL ROOT CAUSE
322 CORREC-FAIL CORRECTIVE
323 GDPR-VIOL GDPR
324 CCPA-VIOL CCPA
325 COPPA-VIOL COPPA
326 ADA-VIOL ADA VIOLATION
327 SECTOR-REG SECTOR-SPECIFI
328 AI-ACT AI ACT
329 EO-VIOL EXECUTIVE
330 VOLUNT-VIOL VOLUNTARY
331 STANDA-FAIL STANDARD
332 DISCLO-VIOL DISCLOSURE
333 REPORT-FAIL REPORTING
334 ! CULTUR-FAIL SAFETY
335 INADEQ-RES INADEQUATE
336 EXPERT-GAP EXPERTISE GAP
337 PROCES-FAIL PROCESS
338 DOC-FAIL DOCUMENTATION
339 TRAINI-FAIL TRAINING
340 COMM-FAIL COMMUNICATION
341 COORD-FAIL COORDINATION
342 AUTHOR-UNCL DECISION
343 CONFLI-INT CONFLICT OF