Unlike traditional software bugs that might crash a server or scramble a database, errors in AI-driven control systems can spill into the physical world, triggering equipment failures, forcing shutdowns, or destabilizing entire supply chains, Gartner warns. "The next great infrastructure failure may not be caused by hackers or natural disasters but rather by a well-intentioned engineer, a flawed update script, or a misplaced decimal," cautioned Wam Voster, VP Analyst at Gartner.