{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-25T07:27:41.672Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"ai-use-sanction","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"unknown","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-new-hire-says-employer-let-them-go-in-first-week-for-using-its-own-internal-ai-tool-on-compliance-training-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'a compliance training (don't take bribes, don't bully, that kind of thing)'; 'The compliance questions were weirdly ambiguous, so I used the company's own internal AI tool to help. I even told my manager I was doing it, and he was fine with it.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says that in their first week at a new employer they were given a compliance training whose questions they found ambiguous, used the company's own internal AI tool to help, and told their manager, who was fine with it.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account of their own AI use and the manager's reaction; no employer or manager statement was retrieved."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Next Monday, HR joins my 1:1 and tells me I'm being let go for using AI on the training'; 'The call lasted a couple of minutes, and I lost all access shortly after.'; asked 'You were let go for using AI while taking training modules?', the poster replies 'Yes'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says that the following Monday HR joined their one-to-one meeting and told them they were being let go for using AI on the training, and that they lost access shortly afterwards.","causal_attribution":"The poster attributes the AI reason to HR; no employer statement or written notice was retrieved."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'It's been a month.'; '400 applications, 150+ cold emails, almost nothing back.'; 'Im getting stressed and I dont know what to do.'; reply: 'There is some traction in the mail, I do get one or two replies back'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says that a month after the dismissal about 400 applications and more than 150 cold emails had brought almost nothing back and that they are stressed.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account of their own job search; the search outcome is not attributed to the AI use by any source."}],"effects":[{"label":"new hire dismissed for using the employer's internal AI tool on a compliance training (poster's account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"month of unsuccessful job searching and stress","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/1xe9qb2/got_laid_off_twice_with_4_month_and_last_one/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-25: the post through the arctic_shift archive API (subreddit pull and post-ID lookup, 200; created 14:13 UTC on 24 October 2026, not edited), and the live thread (10 entries, 5 by the poster, latest poster reply at 14:47 UTC on 24 October) through Reddit's comment RSS feed at about 03:00 UTC on 25 October. The live post matches the archived copy. The poster's handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-jobs-new-hire-ai-compliance-training-dismissal-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["The employer, its location and the date of the dismissal.","Whether the employer had a written rule against AI use in training, and whether the stated reason was the only one.","What the internal AI tool is and what it answered.","Whether the poster challenged the dismissal."],"geography":{"basis":"The post does not name the country; the poster says only that they are from a developing country and does not say where the employer or the job was. Vocabulary in the post is not evidence of location.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account of a dismissal that the poster says HR gave as a sanction for using the employer's own internal AI tool on a compliance training, reviewed as a consequential response to AI use. Described with attribution and without corroboration; the employer is not identified and the poster's handle is not recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster says they used the company's own internal AI tool to help answer ambiguous compliance-training questions and told their manager, and that HR then dismissed them for using AI on the training. The harm is the employer's response to the poster's AI use, a consequential response; the tool's answers are not described and are not said to have been wrong. The poster's account is the only evidence and no employer statement was retrieved.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"New hire says employer let them go in their first week for using its own internal AI tool on a compliance training, after telling the manager (first-person)","summary":"In a public post to r/jobs created on 24 October 2026, a software engineer with about three years of experience writes that, after three and a half months of assessments and eight interviews, they joined a well-known multinational company that they do not name. In the first week they were given a compliance training whose questions they found ambiguous, and they used the company's own internal AI tool to help, telling their manager, who they say was fine with it. The following Monday, the poster writes, HR joined their one-to-one meeting and told them they were being let go for using AI on the training; the call lasted a couple of minutes and they lost access shortly afterwards. The poster says that a month later about 400 applications and more than 150 cold emails had brought almost nothing back and that they are stressed. The employer, its location and the date of the dismissal are not stated. The account is the poster's alone and uncorroborated; no employer statement was retrieved.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-24","aiSystem":"The employer's own internal AI tool, which by the poster's account they used to help with ambiguous compliance-training questions; the tool is not named or described further","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The poster says they were dismissed in their first week of a new job for using the employer's own internal AI tool on a compliance training, despite having told their manager, and that a month of job searching has brought almost nothing back (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the poster, who used the internal AI tool and says they were dismissed for it. No other affected person is described.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/1xe9qb2/got_laid_off_twice_with_4_month_and_last_one/","primarySourceLabel":"r/jobs, 24 October 2026: \"Got laid off twice with 4 month, and last one within a week of employment for using AI\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-25T03:09:05.515807+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-25T03:09:05.515807+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","reddit","employment","dismissal","workplace-ai","ai-use-sanction","consequential-response"]}]}