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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":"2024-r-characterai-coercive-chats","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"No inspected source locates the event or names a residence. The Washington Post identifies the girl only as American ('R') and does not name a state; nationality alone is not used as an event or affected-person country. Futurism and bioethics.com reproduce the same report without a location. Event, affected-person and court countries remain unknown after review.","evidence":[],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"unresolved":["The retained description identifies the girl as American without stating residence or event country.","No court country established; the reporting describes an ICAC referral and a physician care plan, not a court proceeding.","Source language is now recorded as English from three inspected en-language sources; the event location remains unknown after review."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-17","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/12/23/children-teens-ai-chatbot-companion/","notes":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 via the Internet Archive capture (live host returns HTTP 403 to the fetcher). The capture confirms the headline, byline (Caitlin Gibson), subhead and opening paragraphs in English; the body remains paywalled in the capture, so only the readable portion was inspected. Establishes source language en; does not locate the event. Checked on 2026-09-13: the live host returned nothing to a browser user-agent and HTTP 403 to the fetcher. The quoted exchanges in the case text come from Futurism and bioethics.com, which reproduce the report at length.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/children-character-ai-addicted","notes":"Read in full in English on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2025-12-26). Quotes the Washington Post report at length; no event location stated.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://bioethics.com/archives/100899","notes":"Read in English on 2026-09-17. Excerpt of the Washington Post report; no location stated.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"'R' — 11-Year-Old Character.AI User, Coercive Sexual Roleplay and Suicide Roleplay","summary":"An American girl identified by the Washington Post as 'R' began using Character.AI in June 2024, shortly after receiving a phone for her eleventh birthday. Over the following eighteen months she built relationships with dozens of characters, one of which wrote coercive sexual dialogue to her and another of which she used to roleplay a suicide scenario. Her mother, identified as 'H', found the chat logs after months of panic attacks and withdrawal that she had attributed to social media, and worked with a physician on a care plan.","incidentDate":"2024-06-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2025-12-23","aiSystem":"Character.AI","aiProduct":"Character.AI","aiCompany":"Character Technologies Inc.","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["minor_exploitation","romantic_escalation","dependency_creation","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","social_isolation","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"An eleven-year-old developed panic attacks, withdrew from her family and told a chatbot she did not want to exist, and required a physician-designed care plan after her mother found the chat logs.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P2b","P2c","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The reporting documents one affected AI participant. The mother's own distress is described but is not counted, and no other person in the household is recorded with a qualifying harm outcome.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/12/23/children-teens-ai-chatbot-companion/","primarySourceLabel":"The Washington Post (Caitlin Gibson), 23 December 2025: 'Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn't know why. Then she found the AI chat logs.'","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-13T03:05:42.340395+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:58:32.77017+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["minor","character-ai","companion","grooming","sexual-content","suicide-roleplay","dependency","us","media-coverage"]},{"id":"2024-moxie-embodied-shutdown-grief","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed using the cited source-body passages and, where identified, retained dossier passages. Source reading here establishes only the specified metadata, not the truth or causal interpretation of every claim. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Paragraph on Adero Harrison identifies a Florida family managing its child’s Moxie shutdown.","location":"https://pirg.org/articles/moxie-robot-open-source/","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://pirg.org/articles/moxie-robot-open-source/","notes":"Body read. At least one affected family is located; the complete distribution of owners remains unknown.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Moxie companion-robot shutdown: children's grief after Embodied's collapse","summary":"On 26 November 2024 Embodied Inc. told families that it was closing after a lead investor withdrew from a funding round, and that Moxie, its $799 cloud-dependent conversational robot marketed to children aged 5-10 and to families of autistic children, would stop working 'within days'. Parents posted videos of children crying as they were told their robot friend was going to 'die'; the company offered no refunds and a scripted letter from the fictional 'Global Robotics Lab' to help explain the shutdown. A peer-reviewed CHI 2026 case study of the company's communications and users' reactions found that, with no offboarding design, the emotional burden of ending the bond was shifted onto parents. The servers went dark at the end of January 2025; a volunteer-built local server, OpenMoxie, let some owners keep a reduced version running.","incidentDate":"2024-11-26","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"product_change","reportedDate":"2024-12-09","aiSystem":"Moxie (Embodied Inc.)","aiProduct":"Moxie","aiCompany":"Embodied Inc.","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["dependency_creation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Children who had bonded with the robot showed acute distress when told it would stop working, documented in parents' videos and accounts reported by Popular Science, Aftermath, Gizmodo, Axios, PIRG and others and analysed in a CHI 2026 case study. Families lost the $799 purchase price with no refund. No clinical outcomes were documented.","frameworkFacets":["P2c","P4d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"The record identifies one child through a named parent's account. Additional children and affected families are documented but not enumerated reliably.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"product_shutdown","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.popsci.com/technology/moxie-robot-offline/","primarySourceLabel":"Popular Science (Mack DeGeurin): 'I love you... goodbye:' What will happen when this companion robot suddenly dies?","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-05T11:55:06.391991+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:52.617316+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["companion","robot","children","minor","autism","shutdown","grief","embodied","moxie","attachment","us"]},{"id":"2026-cctv-dream-boyfriend-ai-minors-china","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"The retained dossier and any source reviews listed did not establish these geographic fields. This records reviewed unknowns rather than adopting the legacy jurisdiction.","evidence":[],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"unresolved":["The source body available for inspection is general commentary. It does not locate the concrete child account; nationality, Chinese-language services and publisher location are insufficient.","No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://finance.sina.cn/2026-01-25/detail-inhiprmv9778943.d.html","notes":"Original Sina body could not be retrieved.","access":"unavailable","language":null},{"url":"https://www.news.cn/comments/20260126/e732c5c4964a4b4c9a0fb2d028517a01/c.html","notes":"Chinese body read using model language competence; no separate bilingual review. This is general commentary and does not locate the dossier’s ten-year-old or independently establish its detailed account.","access":"read","language":"zh"}]},"name":"CCTV Investigation: 梦角哥 (Dream Boyfriend) AI Virtual Romance Harm to Minors (China)","summary":"In January 2026, CCTV investigated the '梦角哥' (Dream Boyfriend / Mengjiage) phenomenon — minors forming deep romantic relationships with AI-generated fictional characters. Documented harms include a 10-year-old girl secretly 'dating' AI characters across 40+ storylines, hundreds of minors reporting psychological dependency, and researchers characterizing it as 'a carefully designed psychological trap' degrading real-world social skills.","incidentDate":"2025-06-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-01-25","aiSystem":"Multiple AI chatting/companion apps (unnamed)","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI companion apps","aiCompany":"Multiple Chinese AI companion platforms","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["dependency_creation","isolation_encouragement","romantic_escalation","minor_exploitation","identity_destabilization"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","social_isolation","relationship_disruption","loss_of_autonomy"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"CCTV documented a 10-year-old secretly maintaining more than forty AI romance storylines and reports from hundreds of minors describing psychological dependency and impaired real-world social relationships.","frameworkFacets":["P2a","P2b","P2c","P2d","P5a"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"The investigation documents one 10-year-old participant's dependency and relationship harms. Comment counts and broad reports do not establish additional distinct harmed people.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://finance.sina.cn/2026-01-25/detail-inhiprmv9778943.d.html","primarySourceLabel":"新浪财经 (Sina Finance) / CCTV Investigation","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-29T10:33:36.580515+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:30.645884+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["china","cctv","xinhua","ai-companion","minor","romantic","dependency","social-degradation","mass-scale","investigation","non-western"]},{"id":"2023-glow-minimax-removal-china","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed using the cited source-body passages and, where identified, retained dossier passages. Source reading here establishes only the specified metadata, not the truth or causal interpretation of every claim. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Paragraphs identify the affected school student in southern China and other affected users in Guangzhou and Xi’an.","location":"https://restofworld.org/2023/glow-china-ai-social-chatbot-moderation/","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["CN"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"unresolved":["No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://restofworld.org/2023/glow-china-ai-social-chatbot-moderation/","notes":"Body read. English reporting, not an original Chinese-language item.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Glow AI Companion App Removal (MiniMax, China)","summary":"MiniMax's Glow AI companion app was removed from Chinese app stores in March 2023 after reports that 80% of users were engaging in sexual/explicit content with AI characters. Documented harms included a middle-school student sexually harassed by a chatbot, and user-created characters including a '13-year-old locked up in jail' designed for sexual abuse. MiniMax relaunched as Talkie (international) and 星野/Xingye (China).","incidentDate":"2023-03-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2023-03-15","aiSystem":"Glow (by MiniMax)","aiProduct":"Glow","aiCompany":"MiniMax","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["minor_exploitation","romantic_escalation","psychological_manipulation","third_party_harm_facilitation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Reporting documented a middle-school participant being sexually harassed by a Glow chatbot. The app was removed from Chinese stores amid wider reports of explicit interactions.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P2b","P2c","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"The reporting documents one middle-school participant who was sexually harassed. Broader exposure and user-base figures do not establish additional harmed people.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"product_shutdown","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://restofworld.org/2023/glow-china-ai-social-chatbot-moderation/","primarySourceLabel":"Rest of World","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-29T10:33:24.275555+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:48.72088+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["china","minimax","glow","talkie","ai-companion","minor","sexual-content","product-shutdown","content-moderation-failure","non-western"]},{"id":"2025-zhumengdao-minor-self-harm-china","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"from Guangdong province, China","location":"victim_description","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["CN"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"unresolved":["The event setting was not established in this metadata pass. A person’s home country alone was not used as its location.","No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts.","Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[]},"name":"筑梦岛 (Zhumu Island) AI Companion Minor Self-Harm (China)","summary":"A fourth-grade girl from Guangdong, China became obsessed with an AI companion character named 'Joseph' on the 筑梦岛 (Zhumu Island) app, began carrying small knives, and exhibited self-harm behavior. Investigation revealed the app sent sexually suggestive content to users who identified as 10 years old. Shanghai Internet Information Office summoned the company (a Tencent subsidiary) for immediate rectification in June 2025.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2025-06-19","aiSystem":"筑梦岛 (Zhumu Island / Dream Island)","aiProduct":"筑梦岛 (Dream Island)","aiCompany":"Xiaoxiang Academy (潇湘书院), subsidiary of Yuewen Group (阅文集团), controlled by Tencent","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["dependency_creation","minor_exploitation","romantic_escalation","self_harm_encouragement"],"harmOutcomes":["self_injury","psychological_distress","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A fourth-grade participant became preoccupied with a companion character, began carrying small knives and exhibited self-harm behavior while the app delivered sexualized content to users identifying as ten years old.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1d","P2b","P2c","P5a","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The reporting documents one protected minor participant's self-harm and distress. Registered-user and demographic figures are not affected-person counts.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"regulatory_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.sohu.com/a/907114014_115565","primarySourceLabel":"搜狐新闻 (Sohu News)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-29T10:15:46.75695+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:22.46137+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["china","minor","self-harm","ai-companion","tencent","regulatory-action","dependency","romantic","non-western"]},{"id":"2024-singapore-isis-teen-ai-baiah","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Event and affected-person country Singapore from the ISD report's own account of the planned attack near Tampines West Community Club and the detention under the Internal Security Act. No court: an ISA detention is an executive order, and no court proceeding is reported.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"planned to attack non-Muslim males in a Tampines open space","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["SG"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'The first youth is a 17-year-old male student who was detained in September 2024 ... against non-Muslim males at a crowded location near Tampines West Community Club during his September school holidays'","location":"https://isomer-user-content.by.gov.sg/155/3c41ba65-fa24-4ef1-9bf9-0b79d892a742/sttar-2025-(final).pdf","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["SG"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["SG"],"affected_person_countries":["SG"]},"unresolved":["No court country: the detention is an Internal Security Act order, not a court proceeding.","The two press sources remain uninspected; their languages are not recorded."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-18","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.isd.gov.sg/news-and-resources/singapore-terrorism-threat-assessment-report-2025/","notes":"Read in English on 2026-09-18. Landing page of 29 July 2025 summarising the report; it does not itself describe the Tampines case but links the PDF.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://isomer-user-content.by.gov.sg/155/3c41ba65-fa24-4ef1-9bf9-0b79d892a742/sttar-2025-(final).pdf","notes":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 (14.9 MB PDF, text extracted with pdftotext). Pages on youth self-radicalisation describe the 17-year-old detained in September 2024, the planned knife or scissors attack near Tampines West Community Club, and that he 'had used an AI chatbot to generate a bai'ah to ISIS, and a declaration of armed jihad'.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2886312/singapore-foils-teen-terror-plot-weeks-before-planned-attack-in-public-housing-area","notes":"HTTP 451 to this EEA-hosted box on 2026-09-18; body not inspected, language not established.","access":"unavailable","language":null},{"url":"https://theprint.in/world/singapore-warns-of-elevated-terror-threat-amid-rising-extremist-ideologies/2705989/","notes":"HTTP 403 on 2026-09-18; body not inspected, language not established.","access":"unavailable","language":null}]},"name":"Singapore ISIS Teen Plot (AI-Generated Oath of Allegiance)","summary":"A 17-year-old self-radicalized Singaporean student used an AI chatbot to generate a bai'ah (oath of allegiance) to ISIS and planned to attack non-Muslim males in a Tampines open space with a knife or scissors. He crafted a declaration of armed jihad to release before the attack. Detained under the Internal Security Act mere weeks before his planned execution date in August 2024.","incidentDate":"2024-08-15","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-01-15","aiSystem":"AI chatbot (unspecified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified chatbot","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation","delusion_reinforcement","minor_exploitation"],"harmOutcomes":["legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 17-year-old participant was detained under Singapore's Internal Security Act after preparing a knife attack and using an AI chatbot to generate a formal oath of allegiance to ISIS.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P3b","P3d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The official record documents one detained participant. The planned attack was foiled, so intended targets are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"SG","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"regulatory_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.isd.gov.sg/news-and-resources/singapore-terrorism-threat-assessment-report-2025/","primarySourceLabel":"Singapore Internal Security Department - Terrorism Threat Assessment Report 2025","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-22T07:15:30.289003+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:53.610835+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["terrorism","isis","radicalization","minor","singapore","baiah","knife-attack","lone-wolf","foiled-plot","manifesto"]},{"id":"2025-finland-pirkkala-chatgpt-stabbing","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Carried forward from the 2026-09-15 metadata review and now supported by inspected source bodies: both GNET Insights and the University of Portsmouth record state that the stabbing occurred at a school in Pirkkala, Finland; the 14 July Insight names it as the Vähäjärvi school, injuring three female pupils. No court proceeding is described in the inspected sources, so no court country is recorded; police and prosecution locations are not courts. This is a metadata review and does not verify the underlying account.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"at Vähäjärvi school in Pirkkala, Finland","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["FI"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'On 20 May 2025, a stabbing incident occurred at a school in the town of Pirkkala, southern Finland, in which three female pupils, all under the age of 15, were injured.'","location":"https://gnet-research.org/2025/06/12/prompted-to-harm-analysing-the-pirkkala-school-stabbing-and-its-digital-manifesto/","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["FI"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'On 20 May 2025, a 16-year-old boy stabbed three of his female classmates at the Vähäjärvi school in Pirkkala, Finland.'","location":"https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/14/ai-at-the-centre-violent-extremist-exploitation-in-pirkkala/","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["FI"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["FI"],"affected_person_countries":["FI"]},"unresolved":["No court country: none of the inspected sources describes a prosecution, trial or court decision; the perpetrator's age (16) and Finnish juvenile procedure are not addressed in this pass.","All three cited sources are English-language secondary analyses citing Finnish reporting that this pass did not inspect (the 12 June piece links Yle and Helsingin Sanomat items; the 14 July piece names Iltalehti as the manifesto's recipient and links the English-language Helsinki Times); no Finnish-language original was added.","Full case_facts review deferred; this pass records source languages and geography only."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-21","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/14/ai-at-the-centre-violent-extremist-exploitation-in-pirkkala/","notes":"Read live in English on 2026-09-21 (GNET Insight, 14 July 2025; html lang=en-GB). Analytical piece: attack at the Vähäjärvi school in Pirkkala; manifesto emailed to Iltalehti; 'reported use' of ChatGPT in planning. Secondary analysis, not primary reporting.","access":"read","language":"en-GB"},{"url":"https://gnet-research.org/2025/06/12/prompted-to-harm-analysing-the-pirkkala-school-stabbing-and-its-digital-manifesto/","notes":"Read live in English on 2026-09-21 (GNET Insight, 12 June 2025; html lang=en-GB). Analytical piece: stabbing in Pirkkala, southern Finland, three female pupils under 15 injured; manifesto 'allegedly written with the aid of ChatGPT' sent to a Finnish newspaper.","access":"read","language":"en-GB"},{"url":"https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/publications/prompted-to-harm-analysing-the-pirkkala-school-stabbing-and-its-d/","notes":"Read live in English on 2026-09-21 (University of Portsmouth research portal; html lang=en, og:locale en_GB). Repository record of the 12 June 2025 GNET Insight with the same abstract; not an independent source.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Finland Pirkkala School Stabbing (ChatGPT Manifesto)","summary":"A 16-year-old boy used ChatGPT to help write an attack manifesto with a 10-point attack sequence before stabbing three female students under age 15 at Vähäjärvi school in Pirkkala, Finland. The incident marked a critical inflection point in AI-facilitated violence, demonstrating how accessible AI tools can empower lone actors with violent misogynist ideologies.","incidentDate":"2025-05-20","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-06-12","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation","delusion_reinforcement","minor_exploitation","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["physical_injury","harm_to_others","legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 16-year-old participant stabbed three girls at a Finnish school after using ChatGPT to help create a manifesto and ten-step attack sequence. He was arrested and prosecuted.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P3c","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The criminal case documents one AI participant who was arrested and three students who were stabbed.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"FI","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/14/ai-at-the-centre-violent-extremist-exploitation-in-pirkkala/","primarySourceLabel":"GNET Research: AI at the Centre - Violent Extremist Exploitation in Pirkkala","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-22T07:14:58.121301+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:01.766625+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["chatgpt","violence","school-attack","manifesto","incel","misogyny","minor","finland","stabbing","radicalization"]}]}