{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-17T09:16:08.399Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"beijing","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"unknown","evidence":"","year":"2024","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":2,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":2,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":2},"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-beijing-arbitration-rules-tech-firm-unlawfully-dismissed-map-data-collector-after-moving-work-to-ai","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'12月26日，北京市人力资源和社会保障局召开北京市劳动人事争议仲裁委员会工作会议，会议审议发布了2025年度劳动人事争议仲裁十大典型案例。'; '其中，案例六界定了企业基于正常经营决策引入AI技术替代岗位'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'据《北京日报》报道，北京人社局于12月26日揭示了2025年度劳动人事争议仲裁的几个典型案例。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The Beijing human resources and social security bureau released ten typical labour arbitration cases of 2025 on 26 December 2025, including one on dismissal after AI replaced a post.","causal_attribution":"Directly reported by China National Radio's reporter at the bureau meeting."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'于2009年7月1日入职某科技公司，担任数据采集员，负责传统人工地图数据采集业务。'; '2024年初，该科技公司为应对市场变化与技术发展，决定进行业务转型，将传统人工采集业务全面转向由AI技术主导的自动化数据采集'; '2024年12月26日，公司以“劳动合同订立时所依据的客观情况发生重大变化，致使劳动合同无法继续履行，且双方未能就变更劳动合同内容达成一致”为由'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'2024年年初，公司转向AI自动化采集，撤销其岗位及所在部门，年底以“客观情况重大变化”为由解除劳动合同。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'2024年年初，公司决定转向AI主导的自动化数据采集，随即撤销了'; '到2024年底，公司以“劳动合同订立时所依据的客观情况发生重大变化”为由，解除与'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The worker joined the company on 1 July 2009 doing manual map-data collection; in early 2024 the company moved that work to AI-led automated data collection and abolished the post, and on 26 December 2024 it terminated the contract citing a major change in objective circumstances.","causal_attribution":"The employer's actions and stated reason as recorded in the bureau's typical case; all three outlets relay that one release."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'某科技公司引入AI技术属于企业主动进行的技术革新与商业决策'; '公司将技术迭代带来的经营风险直接转嫁给劳动者，并以此为由解除劳动合同，缺乏事实与法律依据。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'仲裁委依据相关规定，认定公司违法解除劳动合同。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'最终，仲裁委员会裁定该公司的行为属于违法解除。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The arbitration commission found the termination unlawful, holding that introducing AI was the company's own business decision and that the company had shifted the risk of technical change onto the worker.","causal_attribution":"The commission's finding as released by the bureau; the award itself was not read."}],"effects":[{"label":"dismissed after the employer moved the map-data collection work to AI-led automated collection","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the arbitration commission found the dismissal unlawful","claim_id":"c3","direction":"positive"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.cnr.cn/bj/oiue/20251226/t20251226_527473921.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. The page was served in GBK encoding and decoded before reading. A reporter's account of the bureau meeting that released the cases.","independence_group":"beijing-labour-arbitration-typical-cases-dec-2025"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.chinanews.com.cn/sh/2025/12-29/10542198.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. A commentary, credited to Beijing Youth Daily, that summarises the same released case.","independence_group":"beijing-labour-arbitration-typical-cases-dec-2025"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://global.hk01.com/%E5%A4%A7%E5%9B%BD%E5%B0%8F%E4%BA%8B/60307355/%E7%BC%93%E8%A7%A3ai%E6%8A%A2-%E9%A5%AD%E7%A2%97-%E7%84%A6%E8%99%91-%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E4%BA%BA%E7%A4%BE%E5%B1%80-%E4%BB%A5ai%E6%9B%BF%E4%BB%A3%E5%B2%97%E4%BD%8D%E8%A7%A3%E9%9B%87%E5%91%98%E5%B7%A5%E5%B1%9E%E8%BF%9D%E6%B3%95","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Relays Beijing Daily's report of the same bureau release.","independence_group":"beijing-labour-arbitration-typical-cases-dec-2025"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","justice"],"unknowns":["The employer's name and what AI system took over the collection work.","The dates of the arbitration application and award, and the compensation awarded.","Whether the company challenged the award in court."],"geography":{"basis":"The case is one of the Beijing human resources and social security bureau's typical cases decided by Beijing arbitration bodies, and the employer is described as a technology company in the Beijing case. The worker's own country is not stated.","court_countries":["CN"],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as an employer's consequential response to its own adoption of AI: a worker employed since 2009 was dismissed after the map-data collection work was moved to AI-led automated collection, and a Beijing arbitration commission found the dismissal unlawful. The facts rest on the Beijing human resources and social security bureau's typical case as reported by China National Radio, China News Service and HK01, which share one origin.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-17"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harm is the employer's response to its own adoption of AI: according to the Beijing typical case as reported by China National Radio, China News Service and HK01, the company moved manual map-data collection to automated collection led by AI technology, abolished the worker's department and post, and then terminated the contract citing a major change in objective circumstances. No source describes any AI output about the worker, so the relation is recorded as unknown under the consequential-response exemption.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Beijing arbitration commission rules a tech company unlawfully dismissed a map-data collector after moving the work to AI-led automated collection","summary":"A technology company in Beijing employed a worker from July 2009 as a data collector doing manual map-data collection. In early 2024 the company moved that work to automated data collection led by AI technology and abolished the worker's department and post, and on 26 December 2024 it terminated the worker's contract, citing a major change in the objective circumstances on which the contract was based. The worker applied for labour arbitration, and the arbitration commission found the dismissal unlawful, according to a typical case that the Beijing human resources and social security bureau released on 26 December 2025, as reported by China National Radio, China News Service and HK01. The commission said that introducing AI was the company's own business decision and lacked the unforeseeable and unavoidable character the contract-law provision requires, and that the company had shifted the business risk of technical change onto the worker.","incidentDate":"2024-12-26","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-12-26","aiSystem":"No AI product is named. The company replaced manual map-data collection with automated data collection led by AI technology, according to the Beijing labour arbitration typical case","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI data-collection system","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A worker employed since 2009 lost the job after the employer moved the map-data collection work to AI-led automated collection; a Beijing labour arbitration commission found the dismissal unlawful (Beijing typical case as reported by China National Radio, China News Service and HK01).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One worker was dismissed (Beijing typical case as reported by China National Radio). The worker is counted under other people harmed because the AI was the employer's system.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cnr.cn/bj/oiue/20251226/t20251226_527473921.shtml","primarySourceLabel":"China National Radio, 26 December 2025: Beijing releases ten typical labour arbitration cases","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-17T03:10:26.65538+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-17T03:10:26.65538+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["dismissal","ai-replacement","labour-arbitration","workplace-ai","consequential-response"]},{"id":"2024-beijing-court-rules-insurer-unlawfully-dismissed-legal-officer-over-ai-platform-upload","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'在某保险公司担任法务，负责合规稽查、风险核查等工作。2024年7月，为优化工作流程、提升PPT制作及数据分析效率'; '在公司领导推荐下，将自行整理加工后的公司稽核问题数据表，上传至第三方AI平台用于辅助办公'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'2024年7月，为优化工作流程、提升PPT制作及数据分析效率，她在公司领导推荐下，将自行整理加工后的公司稽核问题数据表上传至第三方AI平台辅助办公'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A legal officer at an insurance company, responsible for compliance audits and risk checks, uploaded a company audit-issues data table she had compiled and processed to a third-party AI platform in July 2024, to help make presentations and analyse data, on the recommendation of company leadership.","causal_attribution":"The court's account as relayed by two outlets that share it as their source."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'2024年8月，公司却突然向'; '出具《解除劳动合同告知书》'; '“严重违反规章制度”为由，单方解除了双方劳动关系'; '其将公司稽核类内部文件上传至第三方AI平台，平台会收集、留存用户数据用于模型迭代，存在信息泄露、被第三方窃取的重大风险'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'一个月后，公司向她出具《解除劳动合同告知书》，理由是'; '“严重违反规章制度”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In August 2024 the company served a notice terminating her labour contract for serious violation of its rules, arguing that as a compliance employee bound by a confidentiality agreement she had uploaded internal audit files to a platform that collects and retains user data for model iteration, creating a risk of leakage.","causal_attribution":"The company's stated reason for the dismissal, as recounted in the court's account; the dismissal responded to the employee's use of the AI platform."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'认为，自己没有泄密的主观故意，使用AI工具是为了提高工作效率，上传至AI的数据表已经过整理加工，并非公司核心保密信息，属于合规办公，此次操作也并未造成公司信息外泄或经济损失等现实后果'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The employee said she had no intent to disclose secrets, that the uploaded table had been processed and was not core confidential information, and that no leak or economic loss resulted.","causal_attribution":"The employee's position as recounted in the court's account."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'朝阳法院审理认为'; '不存在违反规章制度的主观故意'; '所有内部规章制度均未明确禁止员工使用第三方AI工具辅助办公'; '公司未针对AI工具使用开展任何专项培训'; '公司仅以AI平台存在数据留存的通用规则，推定存在泄密风险，不足以认定员工行为构成“严重违反规章制度”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'法院还指出，公司未能举证证明'; '上传的文件属于法定或制度界定的核心保密信息，也无法证实该行为造成了信息外泄、经济损失或声誉受损等实际后果'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Chaoyang District People's Court found that she had no intent to breach the rules, that none of the company's rules expressly prohibited third-party AI tools, that the company had given no training on them, and that the platform's general data-retention rules did not establish a serious violation.","causal_attribution":"The court's reasoning as relayed by the press; the judgment text was not inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'依法判决撤销其向'; '作出的《解除劳动合同告知书》，双方继续履行劳动合同，同时判令保险公司向'; '支付因违法解约产生的年终奖差额、绩效工资、工资损失等。目前，该判决已经生效'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'一审认定保险公司单方解除行为违法，判决撤销解除告知书、双方继续履行劳动合同，并判令公司支付年终奖差额、绩效工资及工资损失，目前判决已生效'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'法院一审认定，公司单方解除行为违法，判决撤销解除通知、双方继续履行合同，并补发年终奖差额、绩效工资及工资损失。判决已生效'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The court ruled at first instance that the dismissal was unlawful, revoked the termination notice, ordered the labour contract to continue and ordered the insurer to pay the year-end bonus shortfall, performance pay and lost wages; the judgment has taken effect.","causal_attribution":"Reports of the judgment that all derive from the court's disclosure, so the claim stays reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"employee dismissed by her employer for uploading a work data table to a third-party AI platform","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"employee lost year-end bonus, performance pay and wages through the dismissal, which a court ordered the insurer to make good","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://xinwen.bjd.com.cn/content/s6acee3f7e4b0e42f8f0189ec.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese in full. Quotations and their English renderings in this record were translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translator reviewed them. Beijing Daily's own report (reporter credited) of the Chaoyang court's account of the case.","independence_group":"chaoyang-court-account-oct-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://news.mydrivers.com/1/1157/1157186.htm","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese in full. Quotations and their English renderings in this record were translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translator reviewed them. Kuai Keji relays the case from China National Radio (Voice of China); the court is the underlying source, so it shares an independence group with Beijing Daily.","independence_group":"chaoyang-court-account-oct-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.mrjjxw.com/articles/2026-10-14/4604034.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese in full. Quotations and their English renderings in this record were translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translator reviewed them. A signed commentary in National Business Daily that summarises the court's disclosure of the case; it adds no independent reporting.","independence_group":"chaoyang-court-account-oct-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["work","justice"],"unknowns":["The name of the insurer and of the AI platform.","The date of the judgment and the amounts ordered.","Whether the employee returned to work after the ruling.","Whether the platform retained or used the uploaded table."],"geography":{"basis":"The ruling was given by the Chaoyang District People's Court in Beijing. No source states where the insurer or the employee was located, so the event and affected-person countries are left unrecorded rather than inferred from the court's seat.","court_countries":["CN"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as an employer's dismissal of a named-role employee for her own use of a third-party AI platform, followed by a court ruling, now effective, that the dismissal was unlawful. The facts are the court's account as reported by the press; the judgment itself was not read.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harm is the employer's response to the employee's own use of AI. In the court's account relayed by Beijing Daily and Kuai Keji, she uploaded a compiled company audit data table to a third-party AI platform to help with presentations and data analysis, and the company's termination notice treated that upload, and the platform's retention of user data for model iteration, as a serious breach of its rules. No source says the AI platform produced any output about the employee or that any output reached the decision, so the relation is unknown under the consequential-response exemption.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Beijing court rules an insurer unlawfully dismissed a legal officer for uploading an internal audit table to a third-party AI platform","summary":"A legal officer at an insurance company, responsible for compliance audits and risk checks, uploaded a company audit-issues data table that she had compiled and processed to a third-party AI platform in July 2024, to help make presentations and analyse data. According to the court's account, she did so on the recommendation of company leadership. In August 2024 the company served her a notice terminating her labour contract for serious violation of its rules, arguing that as a compliance employee bound by a confidentiality agreement she had exposed internal audit material to a platform that collects and retains user data for model iteration. The Chaoyang District People's Court in Beijing ruled at first instance that the dismissal was unlawful: the company's rules did not prohibit third-party AI tools, it had given no training on their use, and it had not shown that the table was core confidential information or that any leak or loss occurred. The court revoked the termination notice, ordered the contract to continue and ordered the company to pay the employee's year-end bonus shortfall, performance pay and lost wages. Kuai Keji, citing China National Radio, reported the ruling on 13 October 2026 and Beijing Daily on 14 October; both say the judgment has taken effect. No source names the insurer or the AI platform.","incidentDate":"2024-08-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-13","aiSystem":"A third-party AI platform, not named in any source, to which the employee uploaded a compiled company audit-issues data table to help make presentations and analyse data","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI presentation and data-analysis tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm","financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The employee lost her job in August 2024 over her upload of a work data table to a third-party AI platform; the Chaoyang court later ruled the dismissal unlawful and ordered the insurer to pay the year-end bonus shortfall, performance pay and wage losses arising from it (court's account as reported by Beijing Daily and Kuai Keji). Whether the sums have been paid is not reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One employee: the claimant in the reported labour dispute, who used the AI platform herself.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://xinwen.bjd.com.cn/content/s6acee3f7e4b0e42f8f0189ec.html","primarySourceLabel":"Beijing Daily, 14 October 2026: 用外部AI处理内部文件遭公司辞退？法院判决：企业违法！","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-15T03:00:01.598786+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-15T03:00:01.598786+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["dismissal","workplace-ai","labour-dispute","reinstatement","insurance","consequential-response"]}]}