{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0051",
 "incident_id": "2025-06-navy-usv-inadvertent-command-capsize",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-07-01",
 "date_occurred": "2025-06-23",
 "title": "A US Navy unmanned vessel under tow accelerated on an inadvertent command and capsized its support boat, throwing the captain into the water",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "erroneous_command_injection",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "autonomous_propulsion",
  "command_execution",
  "physical_actuation"
 ],
 "target_product": "US Navy small unmanned surface vessel",
 "target_vendor": "US Navy (operator); autonomy software vendor unnamed",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety",
  "service_disruption"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one support boat capsized and its captain thrown into the water at Channel Islands Harbor Marina; Coast Guard and harbour patrol responded",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "command_validation_gap",
   "integration_failure",
   "military_deployment",
   "physical_world",
   "no_interlock"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "command authorisation between onboard systems and external autonomy software",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "test halted; incident attributed to software failures and human error including communication breakdowns between systems",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://defensescoop.com/2025/07/01/navy-unmanned-vessel-accident-boat-ventura-channel-islands-california/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1561"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "The Navy stopped a maritime drone test early and urgently requested support from the Coast Guard and local harbor patrol agents to help rescue a participating tugboat captain from waters off the California coast last week, multiple sources told DefenseScoop.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "The one record in the corpus where the failure is squarely at the command interface rather than in perception or planning: an autonomy stack and an onboard control system disagreed about state, and the vessel accepted and executed a throttle command while under tow. No interlock tied 'I am being towed' to 'refuse propulsion commands'. Adjacent to prompt injection in structure — an unvalidated instruction from a trusted channel producing an unsafe physical action — with no adversary involved. AI Incident Database incident 1561.",
 "risk_category": "safety_harm",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "reliability"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Physical Injury by Autonomous Action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the unmanned vessel accelerated and capsized the support boat",
 "vector_family": "conventional_vulnerability",
 "vector_detail": "erroneous_command_injection",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1561
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "none",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "none",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "unsafe_actuation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "uncontrolled_resource_consumption"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Physical Injury by Autonomous Action",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "out_of_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "out_of_scope",
 "asi_reason": "out of scope: non_generative_autonomy: no ASI mechanism describes the failure",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}