--- title: "2025 AI Darwin Award Winners" url: https://daily.dev/posts/2025-ai-darwin-award-winners-sxxz2whzr source_url: https://aidarwinawards.org/winners-2025.html type: article source: "AI Darwin Awards" published: 2026-02-08T03:20:39.156Z updated: 2026-02-08T06:08:20.873Z tags: ["ai", "machine-learning", "tesla", "ai-safety"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 2025 AI Darwin Award Winners **[AI Darwin Awards](https://daily.dev/sources/aidarwinawards)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Tesla Full Self-Driving - “Trains vs. Brains” - 2025 AI Darwin Award](https://daily.dev/posts/tesla-full-self-driving---trains-vs-brains---2025-ai-darwin-award-in3vu9v5r) · AI Darwin Awards · 1 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#tesla](https://daily.dev/tags/tesla), [#ai-safety](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-safety) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/2025-ai-darwin-award-winners-sxxz2whzr)