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Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.", "source": "NOPE Incident Tracker", "url": "https://nope.net/incidents", "license": "CC BY 4.0" }, "incidents": [ { "id": "2024-zurich-oerlikon-daycare-stabbing-chatgpt-planning", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Ein Knabe wird von der 8,5 Zentimeter langen Klinge am Hals und am Oberkörper lebensgefährlich verletzt'; 'Den einen der beiden trifft der Täter am Herzen: Der Herzbeutel und die Brustschlagader werden durchtrennt'; 'Der andere wird an der Lunge und am Ohr verletzt'; 'Sie stoppt den Täter, schreit ihn an und hält seine Arme fest, bis er das Messer fallen lässt'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Zwei Knaben erlitten lebensgefährliche Stichverletzungen im Hals- und Brustbereich. Ein weiteres Kind wurde an der Schulter und am Ohr verletzt.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "'Am 01. Oktober 2024 verletzte eine männliche Person an der Berninastrasse in Oerlikon mit einer Stichwaffe mehrere Kinder.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s7" } ], "assertion": "On 1 October 2024 at midday in Zurich-Oerlikon the accused stabbed three five-year-old boys who were walking with a daycare worker to their Hort; two suffered life-threatening neck and chest wounds and the third was wounded in the ear and the shoulder or lung; the daycare worker restrained him until he dropped the knife.", "causal_attribution": "Attack attributed to the accused by the prosecutor's office and the court; he confessed." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Mit Chat-GPT diskutiert er verschiedene Tötungsvarianten und deren Konsequenzen, das geht aus der Anklageschrift hervor.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'recherchierte mittels ChatGPT die juristischen Konsequenzen von Tötungsdelikten'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "'Selon l'acte d'accusation, il s'était informé avec ChatGPT, en août 2024, à propos des conséquences juridiques d'homicides à l'arme blanche sur des victimes visées au hasard ou encore au sujet de l'anatomie du corps humain.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "According to the indictment and the court, the accused used ChatGPT in August and September 2024 to research ways of killing and their legal consequences, including knife killings of randomly chosen victims, and human anatomy.", "causal_attribution": "Stated by the prosecution in the indictment and adopted in the court's reasoning; no prompt or reply is quoted." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'er wisse auch nicht, warum er mithilfe von Chat-GPT versucht habe, herauszufinden, wann und wo in Oerlikon Kinder anzutreffen seien'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "Deck: 'Mit «ChatGPT» recherchierte er, wo und wann er in Zürich Kinder antreffen könnte'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s5" }, { "locator": "'Am 18. September fragt er die Software, wo und wann er in der Stadt Zürich Kinder antreffen könne' (as recorded in the 2026-09-09 signal review)", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s6" } ], "assertion": "The accused used ChatGPT to try to find out where and when children could be encountered in Zurich (Oerlikon).", "causal_attribution": "Reported from the indictment; whether the query produced the Hort's location is not stated by any source." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'verurteilt den Studenten wegen mehrfachen versuchten Mordes zu fünfzehn Jahren Freiheitsstrafe. Weiter wird eine vollzugsbegleitende ambulante Therapie verordnet'; 'Genugtuung in der Gesamthöhe von 106 000 Franken'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'wegen mehrfachen versuchten Mordes zu 15 Jahren Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt'; 'Zudem wird der Täter für 15 Jahre des Landes verwiesen.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "'condamné à verser aux trois garçons 30'000 francs et deux fois 38'000 francs pour préjudice moral. Le tribunal a également prononcé une interdiction de territoire de 15 ans'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" } ], "assertion": "On 18 September 2026 the Zurich District Court convicted the accused of multiple attempted murder and imposed 15 years' imprisonment, ambulatory therapy during custody, a 15-year expulsion and CHF 106,000 in moral damages to the three boys.", "causal_attribution": "Court judgment as reported; RTS rounds the damages to 100,000 francs." }, { "id": "c5", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Er attestiert dem jungen Chinesen eine akute psychotische Störung'; 'Der Täter konnte uns nicht glaubhaft darlegen, dass die Stimmen derart drängend waren, dass er sich ihnen nicht hätte entziehen können.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'verneinten jedoch eine komplette Schuldunfähigkeit. Der Täter habe nicht glaubhaft darlegen können, dass die Stimmen derart drängend gewesen seien'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "A forensic psychiatrist diagnosed an acute psychotic disorder and considered the accused unable to control his actions; the court accepted the illness but found he had not credibly shown the voices were irresistible, and convicted him with diminished responsibility.", "causal_attribution": "Expert opinion and court finding as reported." }, { "id": "c6", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Er macht sich bis heute Vorwürfe, dass er nicht schneller zum Hort gerannt ist. Er kann schlecht einschlafen, weil er Angst hat vor seinen Träumen. Fast jede Nacht wacht er auf.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'ihr Sohn seither unter schrecklichen Träumen leide und sich Vorwürfe mache, weil er beim Angriff nicht schnell genug in den rettenden Hort rennen konnte'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "The parents of one injured boy told the court, 23 months after the attack, that he blames himself for not running faster, sleeps badly for fear of his dreams, wakes almost every night and is constantly asked about the scar on his nose.", "causal_attribution": "Parents' letter read in court, attributing the effects to the attack." }, { "id": "c7", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'son avocat qui a annoncé aux médias qu'il faisait appel de ce jugement qui n'est pas encore entré en force'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" }, { "locator": "'Son avocat a annoncé faire appel du jugement.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" } ], "assertion": "The defence announced an appeal against the judgment.", "causal_attribution": "Single agency chain (Keystone-ATS)." }, { "id": "c8", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Am 18. September fragt er die Software, wo und wann er in der Stadt Zürich Kinder antreffen könne'; 'Am 28. September studierte er ... über Google und ChatGPT anatomische Darstellungen des menschlichen Kopfes, Halses und Oberkörpers sowie der Blutgefässe' (2026-09-09 signal review)", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s6" }, { "locator": "'en août 2024' for the legal-consequences and anatomy queries", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "Blick's reading of the indictment dates the ChatGPT sessions to 8 August 2024 (legal consequences of variants of killing random victims by stabbing), 18 September 2024 (where and when to find children in Zurich) and 28 September 2024 (anatomy via Google and ChatGPT).", "causal_attribution": "Dates as reported from the indictment; only the August dating has a second chain." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "three five-year-old boys were stabbed, two with life-threatening neck and chest wounds", "claim_id": "c1", "direction": "negative" }, { "label": "one boy's parents describe nightmares, self-blame and scars 23 months after the attack", "claim_id": "c6", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/messerattacke-oerlikon-chinese-zu-15-jahren-freiheitsstrafe-verurteilt-ld.10024179", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "de", "translation_note": "Read in German on 2026-09-19 (NZZ, 18 September 2026, own court reporter; full body served to curl). Quotations translated by the reviewer.", "independence_group": "nzz" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://www.nau.ch/news/schweiz/messerstecher-von-oerlikon-muss-15-jahre-in-haft-67178142", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "de", "translation_note": "Read in German on 2026-09-19 (Nau.ch, 18 September 2026). The text matches the Keystone-SDA verdict report and is grouped with it.", "independence_group": "keystone-sda-ats" }, { "id": "s3", "url": "https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/autres-cantons/2026/article/zurich-l-auteur-de-l-attaque-au-couteau-condamne-a-15-ans-de-prison-29361349.html", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "fr", "translation_note": "Read in French on 2026-09-19 (RTS, 18 September 2026). Carries the Keystone-ATS verdict report with the psychiatric-expert dating and the appeal announcement; grouped with the agency chain. The page's AI-generated summary was not used.", "independence_group": "keystone-sda-ats" }, { "id": "s4", "url": "https://www.20min.ch/fr/story/zurich-l-auteur-de-l-attaque-au-couteau-d-oerlikon-ecope-de-15-ans-103635523", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "fr", "translation_note": "Read in French on 2026-09-19 (20 minutes, 18 September 2026), explicitly citing Keystone-ATS; gives the three moral-damages amounts.", "independence_group": "keystone-sda-ats" }, { "id": "s5", "url": "https://www.limmattalerzeitung.ch/limmattal/zuerich/messerangriff-auf-hortkinder-in-zuerich-tat-minutioes-geplant-ld.4232969", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "de", "translation_note": "Limmattaler Zeitung (CH Media), 14 September 2026. On 2026-09-19 only the headline, deck and lead were served (paywall): 'Mit «ChatGPT» recherchierte er, wo und wann er in Zürich Kinder antreffen könnte'. The body was read by the 2026-09-14 signal review.", "independence_group": "ch-media" }, { "id": "s6", "url": "https://www.blick.ch/schweiz/zuerich/drei-kindergaertler-in-zuerich-oerlikon-mit-messer-attackiert-und-schwer-verletzt-chinese-hatte-tat-zusammen-mit-chatgpt-geplant-id22244459.html", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "de", "translation_note": "Blick, 8 September 2026, reading of the indictment with the three dated ChatGPT sessions. Read in full via WebFetch on 2026-09-09 (signal review); curl returns a script shell. Not re-read today.", "independence_group": "blick" }, { "id": "s7", "url": "https://www.zh.ch/de/news-uebersicht/medienmitteilungen/2024/10/241002_medienmitteilung_osta_oerlikon.html", "kind": "official_statement", "access": "read", "language": "de", "translation_note": "Read in German on 2026-09-19: Oberstaatsanwaltschaft des Kantons Zürich media release of 2 October 2024 (arrest, confession, age and residence status of the accused).", "independence_group": "oberstaatsanwaltschaft-zh" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "justice", "everyday_life" ], "unknowns": [ "No source quotes the ChatGPT prompts or replies, or states whether the model answered, refused or warned; OpenAI is not reported to have alerted Swiss authorities.", "Whether the 18 September 2024 query produced the location or route of the Hort is not stated.", "The third boy's injury is given as the lung (NZZ) or the shoulder (Keystone-SDA), plus the ear in both.", "RTS reports moral damages of 100,000 francs in total; NZZ and 20 minutes give 106,000 (30,000 + 2 × 38,000).", "Whether the announced appeal has been lodged, and the outcome, are unknown; the judgment is not final.", "The accused's real name is not published (press use a changed name)." ], "geography": { "basis": "The attack took place at Berninastrasse, Zurich-Oerlikon (Oberstaatsanwaltschaft Zürich release of 2 October 2024); the children attended an Oerlikon kindergarten and Hort (NZZ: 'eine Gruppe Oerliker Kinder'); judgment by the Bezirksgericht Zürich on 18 September 2026 (NZZ, Nau, RTS).", "court_countries": [ "CH" ], "event_countries": [ "CH" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "CH" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a court-established violent-harm case in which the AI system's involvement (planning research on ChatGPT) is described in the indictment and the court's reasoning and reported by three independent chains; the absence of quoted model replies limits claims about model behaviour and is recorded, not treated as an exclusion. Victims are unnamed minors; the accused is not named. Converted from a private monitoring signal after the 18 September 2026 verdict.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-19" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "The indictment and the court's oral reasoning, as reported by three independent chains (NZZ's own court reporter; Keystone-SDA/ATS via Nau, RTS and 20 minutes; CH Media's Limmattaler Zeitung and Blick reading the indictment), state that the accused used ChatGPT between August and September 2024 to research the legal consequences of killing random victims by stabbing, ways of killing and their consequences, human anatomy, and where and when children could be found in Zurich, and on the morning of the attack to choose a meal. The AI system communicated with the user whose planned attack injured the children; that is why communicated_with is recorded although the children themselves did not use the system. No source quotes the prompts or ChatGPT's replies, so nothing is recorded about what the model answered or whether it refused or warned. The court attributed the planning and the attack to the accused; this record makes no causal claim about the model.", "status": "supported" }, "person_relations": [ "communicated_with" ] }, "name": "Zurich-Oerlikon, Switzerland: a student who researched killing methods, anatomy and where to find children with ChatGPT stabbed three five-year-olds walking to their daycare; sentenced on 18 September 2026 to 15 years for multiple attempted murder", "summary": "At midday on 1 October 2024 a Chinese master's student, then 23, attacked a group of five-year-old kindergarten children walking with a daycare worker to their after-school Hort near Berninaplatz in Zurich-Oerlikon with a kitchen knife. Two boys suffered life-threatening neck and chest wounds (one had the jugular vein severed, one the pericardium and aorta cut); a third was wounded in the ear and the shoulder or lung. The daycare worker held the attacker's arms until he dropped the knife. The indictment and the court's oral reasoning, as reported by NZZ, Keystone-SDA/ATS and CH Media, describe weeks of preparation from summer 2024: he discussed ways of killing and their legal consequences with ChatGPT, studied anatomy, bought raw beef to practise stabbing, and used ChatGPT to find out where and when children could be encountered in Zurich. No source quotes the prompts or ChatGPT's replies. On 18 September 2026 the Zurich District Court convicted him of multiple attempted murder and imposed 15 years' imprisonment, treatment during custody, a 15-year expulsion from Switzerland and CHF 106,000 in moral damages to the three boys; it accepted that he was psychotic but found diminished, not absent, criminal responsibility. His lawyer announced an appeal. The parents of one boy described nightmares, self-blame and scars 23 months on.", "incidentDate": "2024-10-01", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions", "reportedDate": "2024-10-02", "aiSystem": "ChatGPT (OpenAI)", "aiCompany": "OpenAI", "severity": "high", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "physical_injury", "hospitalization", "psychological_distress", "harm_to_others" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Three five-year-old boys were stabbed, two with life-threatening wounds requiring emergency surgery; one boy's parents describe persistent nightmares, self-blame and visible scars nearly two years later. The court found the attack was planned over weeks, including ChatGPT research described in the indictment; the record attributes the attack to the accused and makes no causal claim about the model.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "unclear", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 3, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "Three five-year-old boys were stabbed (Oberstaatsanwaltschaft release: 'mehrere Kinder'; NZZ and Keystone-SDA: three boys, two life-threateningly injured). Exact count of three. The daycare worker, parents and the accused are not counted.", "victimAgeRange": "minor", "jurisdiction": "CH-ZH", "platformType": "chatbot", "outcomeType": "criminal_charges", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/messerattacke-oerlikon-chinese-zu-15-jahren-freiheitsstrafe-verurteilt-ld.10024179", "primarySourceLabel": "Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 18 September 2026: Messerattacke von Oerlikon: «Besonders verwerflich war die Motivation» – chinesischer Student wegen mehrfachen versuchten Mordes schuldig gesprochen (court report from both trial days)", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-19T03:12:16.848581+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "chatgpt", "knife-attack", "children", "switzerland", "zurich", "attempted-murder", "planning-queries", "court-verdict", "psychosis" ] }, { "id": "2026-newby-adelphi-ai-detector-vacated", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'In November 2024, Newby submitted a paper on Christianity and Islam'; 'Oelze gave the paper a grade of zero, according to court filings, in part because he thought it was AI-generated'; 'According to the lawsuit, Adelphi relied in part on AI detection software'; 'Turnitin's AI detector marked the essay as fully AI-written, but Newby ran it through two other detectors that said it was written by a human, court records show'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Adelphi University says an AI detection software flagged 19-year-old Orion Newby's work and claims the paper was \"too advanced\" for the first-year student'; 'That paper earned him a zero'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "In November 2024 Newby submitted a paper on Christianity and Islam for the fall 2024 World Civilizations 1 class; the professor graded it zero in part because he thought it was AI-generated, and Adelphi, per the lawsuit, relied in part on AI-detection software — court records show Turnitin's detector marked the essay as fully AI-written while two other detectors scored it human.", "causal_attribution": "The detector results and the lawsuit's contents are attributed to court filings as carried by Newsday; the professor's suspicion is attributed to court filings and ABC7." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'University officials ordered Newby to attend a plagiarism workshop — which, while considered a \"nondisciplinary\" punishment, could have resulted in suspension or expulsion if he was found to have committed a second offense'; 'The university's denial of Newby's appeal left the family \"no choice\" but to sue'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Adelphi told him he had to take an anti-plagiarism course, and until he did, he couldn't enroll in other classes. That's when his family sued.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "Newby was ordered to attend a plagiarism workshop — a 'nondisciplinary' punishment that could have led to suspension or expulsion on a second offense — was told he could not enroll in other classes until he complied, and his appeal was denied; the family sued in October 2025.", "causal_attribution": "Both chains independently carry the workshop order and the enrollment block (Newsday from the ruling stage, ABC7 from the filing stage)." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "documented", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'state Supreme Court Judge Randy Sue Marber in Nassau County wrote on Jan. 28. The school must expunge his record, the judge ruled'; 'were \"without valid basis and devoid of reason\"'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "Inside Higher Ed's relay describes a 'federal judge' — erroneous; Judge Marber's state Supreme Court decision controls.", "relation": "contradicts", "source_id": "s3" } ], "assertion": "On 28 January 2026, New York State Supreme Court Judge Randy Sue Marber in Nassau County ruled that Adelphi's finding and its denial of his appeal were 'without valid basis and devoid of reason' and ordered the school to expunge his record.", "causal_attribution": "The ruling is documented by Newsday's report quoting the decision; the IHE forum error is recorded explicitly. The decision text itself was not fetched (Newsday's account is the inspected record)." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'treated since he was about 2 years old for learning and neurological disabilities that include language and auditory processing disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder'; 'He had worked on it with a tutor from Bridges to Adelphi, the university's $5,000-a-semester program'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Newby has learning differences... issues specifically with language processing. At Adelphi, he's in a special program with extra support'; 'I told him I worked 15 to 20 hours with tutors'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "Newby has been treated since about age two for learning and neurological disabilities — language and auditory processing disorders and ADHD — and wrote the paper with a tutor from Bridges to Adelphi, the university's own $5,000-a-semester disability-support program, working 15-20 hours with tutors.", "causal_attribution": "The disability and support details come from his mother's and his own accounts, carried by both chains." }, { "id": "c5", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'The family has spent six figures on legal costs, she said'; Lesko passages ('bellwether example'; 'I can't tell you how many parents have reached out to us with similar issues').", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "The family spent six figures on legal costs; attorney Mark Lesko called the ruling a 'bellwether example' and said many parents had contacted him with similar issues.", "causal_attribution": "The mother's and the attorney's accounts; the 'many parents' figure is unquantified and no other persons are counted." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "false AI-plagiarism accusation with academic and financial consequences until a court ordered expungement", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" }, { "label": "recovery: court cleared his record; he continues at Adelphi as a second-year history major", "claim_id": "c3", "direction": "positive" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/adelphi-university-ai-plagiarism-lawsuit-oh07enyz", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-15 (datePublished 2026-02-09T10:00Z; 48 paragraphs).", "independence_group": "newsday" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://abc7ny.com/post/adelphi-student-long-island-sues-university-allegations-he-used-ai-write-essay/17980409/", "kind": "local_tv_news", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-15 (datePublished 2025-10-10T20:54Z).", "independence_group": "abc7" }, { "id": "s3", "url": "https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/02/11/adelphi-student-wins-ai-plagiarism-lawsuit", "kind": "trade_press_relaying_newsday", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-15 (2026-02-11). Relays Newsday; its 'federal judge' phrase is erroneous — Judge Marber sits in the state Supreme Court, and the claim records the discrepancy.", "independence_group": "newsday" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "institutional_use" ], "contexts": [ "education", "justice", "accessibility" ], "unknowns": [ "The decision text was not fetched; the ruling is recorded through Newsday's account quoting the judge.", "The similarity scores Turnitin returned and the university's full decision letter are not public in the inspected sources.", "Whether Adelphi changed its AI-detection or appeals policies afterward is not reported.", "The first-person Times account (28 Aug 2026) is paywalled and was not inspected; his later reflections are therefore not claimed.", "The workshop's completion status after the ruling (moot after expungement) is not reported." ], "geography": { "basis": "Event: Adelphi University, Garden City, New York. Affected person: Newby, a student there living in Lido Beach, NY. Court: New York State Supreme Court, Nassau County.", "court_countries": [ "US" ], "event_countries": [ "US" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "US" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an institutional automated-decision case (made_decision_about / made_claim_about): a detector-driven false accusation with court-vacated sanctions. Newby and his parents spoke publicly; his disability is recorded because it is central to the case's facts (the university's own support program produced the writing process the detector misread), not as a label.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "The lawsuit records that Adelphi relied in part on AI-detection software; court records show Turnitin's detector marked the essay as fully AI-written while two other detectors scored it human (Newsday). The university's process, not the tool alone, produced the sanction — recorded in the harm mechanism.", "status": "supported" }, "person_relations": [ "made_decision_about", "made_claim_about" ] }, "name": "Adelphi accused Orion Newby of AI plagiarism after a detector flagged his paper; a Nassau County judge ordered the finding expunged", "summary": "Orion Newby, an Adelphi University first-year student with language and auditory processing disabilities, received a zero in November 2024 on a World Civilizations paper after the professor suspected it was AI-generated and the university relied in part on AI-detection software; he was ordered to attend a plagiarism workshop and his appeal was denied, leaving him one finding from suspension or expulsion. Newby — who had written the paper with 15-20 hours of tutor support through the university's own disability program — said the detectors flagged his citations, and two other detectors scored the paper as human. After the family sued, New York State Supreme Court Judge Randy Sue Marber in Nassau County ruled on 28 January 2026 that Adelphi's finding and its denial of his appeal were 'without valid basis and devoid of reason' and ordered his record expunged. The family spent six figures on legal costs.", "incidentDate": "2024-11-01", "incidentEndDate": "2026-01-28", "incidentKind": "bounded_series", "incidentDatePrecision": "range", "exposurePattern": "single_interaction", "reportedDate": "2025-10-10", "aiSystem": "Turnitin AI-detection software (and the university's reliance on it)", "aiCompany": "Turnitin", "severity": "medium", "verificationStatus": "verified", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "educational_harm", "financial_loss", "psychological_distress" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "A false AI-plagiarism finding brought a zero, a plagiarism-workshop order one step from suspension, sleepless nights, and a year-plus fight costing six figures to clear his record — despite two other detectors scoring the paper human and the writing help coming from the university's own disability program.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "supported", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "One documented harmed person: Newby, the subject of the detector-driven accusation (court ruling and Newsday/ABC7 reporting). Other students mentioned by his attorney ('many parents have reached out') are unquantified and not counted.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "US", "platformType": "other", "outcomeType": "lawsuit_filed", "outcomeStatus": "resolved", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/adelphi-university-ai-plagiarism-lawsuit-oh07enyz", "primarySourceLabel": "Newsday (9 Feb 2026) — the ruling, the judge's words, the family and attorney accounts, the disability and Bridges program detail", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-15T09:31:23.493757+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "made-decision-about", "made-claim-about", "ai-detector", "turnitin", "education", "disability", "court-win", "new-york" ] } ] }