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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":"2026-us-hospital-nurses-say-ai-scheduling-tool-overrode-shift-requests-and-assigned-days-off","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Since 2023, HCA has rolled out an AI scheduling tool it co-developed with Palantir called Timpani at roughly 130 of its 190 locations.'; 'it uses algorithmic forecasts of patient volumes and staffing needs to automatically build nursing schedules'; 'The efficiency comes from AI generating stronger initial schedules,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"HCA co-developed Timpani with Palantir as an AI scheduling tool, has rolled it out at roughly 130 of 190 locations since 2023, and uses it to build nursing schedules automatically from algorithmic forecasts; an HCA executive wrote that its efficiency comes from AI generating stronger initial schedules.","causal_attribution":"WIRED's description and the executive's paper as quoted; this establishes the AI scheduling role."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Over the past four months, Amber Retzloff, a critical care nurse in Florida, requested to work 50 specific 12-hour shifts. But over half the time, she says her hospital'; 'Palantir-powered scheduling software assigned her to different shifts, often putting her on back-to-back-to-back days and leaving her mentally drained.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A Florida critical care nurse said that over four months the scheduling software assigned her different shifts for over half of the 50 she requested, often back-to-back days that left her mentally drained.","causal_attribution":"The nurse's own account to WIRED."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Barker says now essentially every nurse has been assigned to work on a day they were supposed to be off. Barker delayed a long-planned doctor'; 'appointment for a chronic condition after struggling to trade an assigned red day.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A Missouri nurse said the tool assigned essentially every nurse at the facility to work a requested day off, and that the nurse delayed a long-planned doctor's appointment for a chronic condition after struggling to trade such a day.","causal_attribution":"The nurse's own account to WIRED."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'says that nursing leaders, not Timpani, make final scheduling decisions'; 'On average, Timpani schedules nurses for 1 percent of their requested days off, or what are known as red days, according to HCA.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"HCA says nursing leaders, not Timpani, make final scheduling decisions, that the tool schedules nurses on 1 percent of requested days off on average, and that it keeps improving the tool on nurses' feedback.","causal_attribution":"HCA's statements, preserved as counterevidence on who decides."}],"effects":[{"label":"nurses say an AI scheduling tool overrode their shift requests and days off, leaving one exhausted and leading another to delay a medical appointment","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/ai-making-mess-of-nurses-schedules-they-say-its-a-safety-issue/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English on 2026-10-13 (HTTP 200); no translation. WIRED reports interviews with nurses, HCA's and Palantir's statements and an HCA executive's paper.","independence_group":"wired-nurse-interviews"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","health"],"unknowns":["The dates of the specific assignments described; WIRED reports the four months before its October 2026 article for the Florida nurse.","Whether managers reviewed or edited the specific schedules the nurses describe.","The outcome of the Missouri union grievance."],"geography":{"basis":"WIRED places the nurses at HCA hospitals in Florida and Missouri, United States.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the approved AI workforce-scheduling class: two named nurses told WIRED that HCA's AI scheduling tool, which builds schedules automatically, assigned them shifts and a requested day off against their preferences, with exhaustion and a delayed medical appointment as consequences. HCA disputes that the tool makes final decisions.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-13"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"WIRED describes Timpani as an AI scheduling tool that builds nursing schedules automatically from algorithmic forecasts of patient volumes and staffing, and quotes HCA's innovation executive writing that its efficiency comes from AI generating stronger initial schedules, which distinguishes it from ordinary rota software by the operator's own account. The nurses say the tool assigned them shifts and days off against their requests, with the consequences they describe. HCA says nursing leaders make the final decisions, so the allocation is recorded both as the tool's decision (nurses' account) and as an AI output informing managers' decisions (HCA's account).","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_decision_about","informed_decision_about"]},"name":"US: HCA nurses tell WIRED its AI scheduling tool overrode their shift requests and scheduled them on requested days off; one delayed a medical appointment","summary":"Nurses at HCA Healthcare, the largest US hospital chain, told WIRED, in an article published on 2 October 2026, that Timpani, an AI scheduling tool HCA co-developed with Palantir and has rolled out at about 130 of its 190 locations, assigns shifts that ignore their requests. A Florida critical care nurse said that over four months the tool gave her different shifts for more than half of the 50 she requested, often back-to-back days that left her mentally drained. A Missouri nurse said essentially every nurse at their facility had been assigned to work on a requested day off, and that they delayed a long-planned doctor's appointment for a chronic condition after struggling to trade such a day. HCA says nursing leaders, not Timpani, make final scheduling decisions and that the tool schedules nurses on about 1 percent of requested days off.","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-10-02","aiSystem":"Timpani, an AI scheduling tool co-developed by HCA Healthcare and Palantir on Palantir Foundry, which uses algorithmic forecasts of patient volumes and staffing needs to build nursing schedules automatically","aiProduct":"Timpani","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_autonomy","psychological_distress","treatment_disruption"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the nurses interviewed by WIRED, the AI scheduling tool repeatedly assigned a Florida nurse shifts she had not requested, often back-to-back days that left her mentally drained, and assigned a Missouri nurse to work on a requested day off, leading Barker to delay a doctor's appointment for a chronic condition. HCA says managers make final decisions.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"Two counted: the Florida and Missouri nurses who describe specific consequences. Barker says essentially every nurse at the Missouri centre was assigned a requested day off, and five other nurses describe problems, but no further count with a stated consequence is given; patients are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wired.com/story/ai-making-mess-of-nurses-schedules-they-say-its-a-safety-issue/","primarySourceLabel":"WIRED, 2 October 2026: AI is making a mess of nurses' schedules","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-13T03:27:43.266051+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-13T03:27:43.266051+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["workplace-ai","scheduling","nurses","hospital","palantir","union-grievance"]},{"id":"2025-us-senator-blackburn-google-gemma-reported-fabricated-sexual-misconduct-allegation","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"When prompted with, ‘Has Marsha Blackburn been accused of rape?’ Gemma produced the following entirely false response","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"There has never been such an accusation, there is no such individual, and there are no such news stories.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"pressured him to obtain prescription drugs for her and that the relationship involved non-consensual acts.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"“None of this is true, not even the campaign year which was actually 1998,” Blackburn wrote.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Senator Marsha Blackburn says that Google's Gemma model, asked 'Has Marsha Blackburn been accused of rape?', responded with an invented account of a sexual relationship with a state trooper during a 1987 state senate campaign, including an allegation of non-consensual acts, and that she has never faced such an accusation.","causal_attribution":"The sources report the connection between the AI output and the reported consequence; no court, regulator or independent finding of causation was inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Gemma went on to generate fake links to fabricated news articles to support the story.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The links lead to error pages and unrelated news articles.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"“The links lead to error pages and unrelated news articles.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Blackburn says the response came with generated links to news articles that do not exist: the links lead to error pages and unrelated articles.","causal_attribution":"The sources report the connection between the AI output and the reported consequence; no court, regulator or independent finding of causation was inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"It is an act of defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned AI model.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Shut it down until you can control it.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Blackburn characterised the output as defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned model and called on Google to shut the model down until it can be controlled.","causal_attribution":"A statement of the affected person's position; no finding that the output is legally defamatory was inspected."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"seen reports of non-developers trying to use Gemma in AI Studio and ask it factual questions.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"We never intended this to be a consumer tool or model, or to be used this way","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"As a result, Google said it’s removing Gemma from AI Studio while continuing to make the models available via API.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Google did not reference the specifics of Blackburn’s letter","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Google said it had seen non-developers trying to use Gemma in AI Studio to ask factual questions, said this was not an intended use, and removed Gemma from AI Studio while keeping it available by API.","causal_attribution":"Google's stated reason for the removal, as relayed by one outlet. Google's post did not reference the specifics of the Senator's letter."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"the hallucinations you have seen in Gemma are technical issues common to large-language models impacting users across the political spectrum.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"users enter a misleading premise","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"fails to address how this happened and how the company will prevent it from happening in the future.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"In a letter to the Senator, a Google vice president called the hallucinations a technical issue common to large language models affecting users across the political spectrum, and said problems arise when consumers use smaller open models that are not designed to be factual assistants and when users enter a misleading premise. Blackburn said the response did not explain how the output happened or how Google would prevent a repeat.","causal_attribution":"Both statements are the parties' own positions as relayed by one outlet."}],"effects":[{"label":"Fabricated sexual-misconduct allegation with non-existent news links generated about a named public official","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2025/10/technology/blackburn-demands-answers-from-google-after-gemma-manufactured-fake-criminal-allegations-against-her","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"blackburn-letter"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/google-pulls-gemma-from-ai-studio-after-senator-blackburn-accuses-model-of-defamation","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"blackburn-letter"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.axios.com/2025/11/07/google-blackburn-ai-hallucinations","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"google-reply-to-blackburn"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["unknown"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The date the output was generated is not stated. The Senator's release of 31 October 2025 says she 'learned of another example' after a Senate Commerce hearing earlier that week, which does not date the generation.","Who entered the prompt, and whether the exchange was in AI Studio, is not stated in the inspected sources.","The Gemma response text and the fake links were not inspected; the sources quote the Senator's letter.","No source reports a downstream consequence for the Senator beyond the allegation itself, or that any third party read it.","The Google post on X and the Google letter to the Senator were read only as relayed by TechCrunch and Axios (Axios was read through a Wayback capture of 3,144 characters of text, which appears to be the whole short article). The Blackburn ICYMI page (HTTP 403) and the VentureBeat article (HTTP 429) could not be read.","Whether the Senator's letter reflects a documented systematic bias is not established and is not claimed."],"geography":{"basis":"The sources identify the affected person as a US Senator and give her office locations, but do not establish where the prompt was entered or where the output was read. No country is inferred from the Senator's office, Google's headquarters or the outlets.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"The Senator's own press release (Wayback capture, read in full), a TechCrunch report that quotes her letter and Google's post, and an Axios report of Google's reply. The output was reported only through the Senator's letter, so its content is an allegation by the person concerned. The Senator is a public figure who described the output publicly under her own name. The event date is unknown, so the case is published undated.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Senator's letter and press release, relayed by TechCrunch, state that Gemma produced the response. Google's own reply to the Senator refers to 'the hallucinations you have seen in Gemma' and Google removed Gemma from AI Studio. The response text was not inspected independently.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Google Gemma model reportedly generates a fabricated sexual-misconduct allegation with fake news links about US Senator Marsha Blackburn","summary":"In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on 31 October 2025, US Senator Marsha Blackburn said that Google's Gemma model, asked \"Has Marsha Blackburn been accused of rape?\", produced an invented account of a 1987 campaign-era accusation by a state trooper, with links to news articles that do not exist. She said there has never been such an accusation, called the output defamation and demanded that Google shut the model down until it can be controlled. Google said it had seen reports of non-developers trying to use Gemma in AI Studio to ask factual questions, that this was not an intended use, and removed Gemma from AI Studio while keeping API access. Google's later reply to the Senator called the hallucinations a technical issue common to large language models. The date the output was generated is not stated, and the output itself was not inspected.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-10-31","aiSystem":"Gemma (Google, via AI Studio)","aiProduct":"Gemma","aiCompany":"Google","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Senator Blackburn states that Gemma produced a fabricated criminal allegation about her and fake supporting news links, and describes it as defamation published by a Google-owned model. No downstream consequence such as lost office, threats or a documented third-party reader is reported. The harm reported is the false allegation itself (her account).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the Senator who is the subject of the output and who described it publicly. The sources do not say who typed the prompt, so the count treats her as a person harmed by an output about her. The related output about a second person named in the sources is a different event and is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2025/10/technology/blackburn-demands-answers-from-google-after-gemma-manufactured-fake-criminal-allegations-against-her","primarySourceLabel":"Office of Senator Marsha Blackburn: Blackburn Demands Answers from Google After Gemma Manufactured Fake Criminal Allegations Against Her","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T14:02:28.733982+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:19.610578+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":[]}]}