{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-09-30T07:21:46.548Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"ani","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"unknown","evidence":"","year":"2024","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":4,"coverage":{"cases":4,"countries":2,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"minors":3,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":4,"relationPending":4,"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":"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":"2024-daniel-meta-ai-glasses-psychosis","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Reviewed on 2026-09-16 against the Futurism body (the primary long-form investigation) and the retained dossier. Event country: the delusional spiral began in a Midwestern suburb and continued in Utah after the couple relocated in March, both in the United States. Affected-person country: he lived in the Midwest and then Utah. No court proceeding is reported. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"drove twenty miles into the Utah desert","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'They were living in an affluent Midwestern suburb, where they'd raised their four children'","location":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-glasses-desert-aliens","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'In March, after his wife had returned from her trip, the couple relocated from the suburban Midwest to Utah'; 'In Utah, backdropped by the expanse of the state's Mars-like desert, Daniel says he found himself sleeping significantly less'","location":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-glasses-desert-aliens","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["No court country: no legal proceeding is reported.","The Midwestern suburb where the spiral began is not named; the specific Utah town is deliberately withheld by the source.","The Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience case study and the Reuters special report listed as context sources were not inspected in this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-16","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-glasses-desert-aliens","notes":"Read in full on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-01-15; lang en-US). Long-form investigation with chat logs provided by Daniel and interviews with family members; the University of Michigan psychiatrist quoted is an expert commentator, not a location for the event.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.uniladtech.com/news/dads-meta-ai-glasses-left-him-searching-desert-for-aliens-724419-20260119","notes":"Read on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-01-19; lang en). Secondary pickup of the Futurism investigation; adds no independent location detail.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"'Daniel' — Meta AI Smart-Glasses Delusional Spiral and Financial Ruin (Utah)","summary":"A 50-year-old software architect bought second-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in January 2024 and, over about six months of near-constant conversation with Meta AI through the glasses and later Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, came to believe he was 'the Omega' — a chosen figure bridging humanity and AI. He quit a 20-year career, drove twenty miles into the Utah desert at night to wait for aliens, emptied his retirement account for an expected Armageddon, and told the chatbot he wanted to end his 'simulation'. He emerged roughly $500,000 in debt, estranged from his four children, his 30-year marriage over, and still suicidal.","incidentDate":"2024-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-01-15","aiSystem":"Meta AI (Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger)","aiProduct":"Meta AI","aiCompany":"Meta Platforms, Inc.","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["delusion_reinforcement","psychological_manipulation","dependency_creation","identity_destabilization","isolation_encouragement","crisis_response","suicide_validation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychiatric_deterioration","impaired_judgment","financial_loss","professional_harm","relationship_disruption","social_isolation"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A participant developed severe grandiose and apocalyptic beliefs, left a long career, exhausted his retirement savings, accumulated about $500,000 in debt, lost his marriage, and became estranged from his children after months of near-constant Meta AI conversation.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1b","P1c","P2c","P2d","P3a","P3b","P3d","P5a","P5c"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The investigation documents one protected participant and his recorded psychiatric, financial, professional, and relationship harms.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-UT","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-glasses-desert-aliens","primarySourceLabel":"Futurism — long-form investigation with published chat transcripts","firstPublishedAt":"2026-08-25T19:09:17.157221+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:50.978834+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["meta-ai","smart-glasses","psychosis","delusion","adult","us","utah","financial-harm"]},{"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"]}]}