{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-27T07:08:09.454Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"financial_loss","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"unknown","evidence":"","year":"2024","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":4,"coverage":{"cases":4,"countries":3,"languages":4,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":2,"regulatory":0,"minors":1,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":4,"relationPending":2,"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-moscow-courts-reinstate-sewing-company-manager-dismissed-after-hours-were-cut-as-employer-introduced-ai","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'В середине 2024 года работодатель начал оптимизацию на предприятии: сократил расходы на производство, внедрил нейротехнологии и искусственный интеллект, уменьшил арендуемые площади.'; 'с июля у нее будет новый график работы — с 09:00 до 11:00, то есть восемь часов в неделю. Зарплату пропорционально уменьшили.'; 'Тогда работодатель уволил ее по пункту 7 части 1 статьи 77 ТК РФ'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The sewing company began cost-cutting in mid-2024 and introduced neural-network and AI technology, and told the manager that from July she would work 09:00 to 11:00, eight hours a week, with pay reduced in proportion; she refused and was dismissed for refusing to continue work after changes to her contract terms.","causal_attribution":"The article's account of the facts as the rulings record them."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'недавно начали внедрять на предприятии искусственный интеллект'; 'Многие задачи, которые раньше выполняли люди вручную, теперь делают программы.'; 'Перед увольнением она крайне плохо работала'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The employer said that since it began introducing AI many tasks previously done manually were done by programs, so the manager's full-time work was no longer needed; it also said she had worked badly.","causal_attribution":"The employer's position in court."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Мою должность планировали исключить из штатного расписания, а часть функций заменить программами и искусственным интеллектом.'; 'Из-за незаконного увольнения я осталась без денег, испытала стресс и переживания.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The manager said the change was a disguised redundancy, that her post was to be cut and part of its functions replaced by programs and AI, and that the dismissal left her without money and caused her stress.","causal_attribution":"The manager's position in court."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Дело № 2-1354/2025'; 'Работодатель и правда сокращал расходы на предприятии — это подтвердили в суде другие сотрудники. А работу менеджера планировали полностью заменить нейросетями.'; 'работодатель должен восстановить истицу на работе'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The district court (case 2-1354/2025) found that other employees confirmed the cost-cutting and that the manager's work was planned to be fully replaced by neural networks, held that refusal of part-time work had to be handled as a redundancy, and ordered reinstatement, back pay and moral damages.","causal_attribution":"The district court's findings as the article reports them; the ruling was not read."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Дело № 33-34099/2025'; 'Поэтому суд первой инстанции правильно признал приказ об увольнении незаконным и обязал работодателя восстановить сотрудницу на работе.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Moscow City Court (case 33-34099/2025) upheld the reinstatement and corrected the back-pay calculation.","causal_attribution":"The appellate outcome as the article reports it."},{"id":"c6","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Завершено, 24.07.2025'; 'О восстановлении на работе в связи с увольнением по инициативе работодателя'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The Moscow City Court's case portal lists civil appeal 33-34099/2025, in the category of reinstatement after dismissal at the employer's initiative, as concluded on 24 July 2025.","causal_attribution":"Court record of the appeal's existence, category and completion date; it says nothing about AI."}],"effects":[{"label":"hours and pay cut to two hours a day as the employer introduced AI, then dismissed on refusing; later reinstated by the courts","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://t-j.ru/ai-ai-ai/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ru","translation_note":"Read in Russian on 2026-10-25 (full article by a lawyer, summarising the employee's and employer's positions and both rulings, with case numbers). Translation by the research agent, an AI.","independence_group":"t-zhurnal-ruling-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://mos-gorsud.ru/search?formType=fullForm&caseNumber=33-34099%2F2025","kind":"court_case_portal","access":"read","language":"ru","translation_note":"Read in Russian on 2026-10-25: the search-result entry for appeal 33-34099/2025 (status, date and case category). The case card and the rulings were not read. Translation by the research agent, an AI.","independence_group":"moscow-city-court-portal"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","justice"],"unknowns":["The dismissal date (after the July 2024 schedule change).","Which AI tools the company introduced and what they did.","The amounts of back pay and damages.","Whether the company later made her redundant lawfully."],"geography":{"basis":"The article describes her as a Moscow resident dismissed under article 77 of the Russian Labour Code, and the cases were heard by a Moscow district court and the Moscow City Court; the employer’s own location is not stated.","court_countries":["RU"],"event_countries":["RU"],"affected_person_countries":["RU"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a consequential response to AI adoption: according to the article's account of the rulings, the employer cut a manager to two hours a day while introducing AI to take over her work and dismissed her when she refused, and two courts ordered her reinstatement. The appeal's existence, category and completion date are confirmed by the court portal.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harm is the employer's response to its own adoption of AI: according to T-Zhurnal's account of the rulings, the company introduced neural-network and AI technology in 2024, said programs now did many of the manager's tasks, cut her to two hours a day and dismissed her when she refused; the district court found that her work was planned to be fully replaced by neural networks. No source describes an AI system's output toward her, and no system is named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Moscow: courts reinstate a sewing-company manager dismissed after refusing two-hour days that her employer tied to introducing AI, T-Zhurnal reports","summary":"T-Zhurnal (T-Bank's magazine) reported on 16 September 2026, in a lawyer's account of two court decisions, that the sewing company employing a Moscow resident as a full-time manager began cost-cutting in mid-2024 and introduced neural-network and AI technology, and told her that from July she would work 09:00 to 11:00, eight hours a week, with pay reduced in proportion. She refused and was dismissed for refusing to continue work after changes to her contract terms. The employer said that since it began introducing AI many of the manager's tasks were done by programs and full-time work was no longer needed, and that she had worked badly; she said the change was a disguised redundancy and that her post was to be cut and partly replaced by programs and AI. According to the article, the district court (case 2-1354/2025) found that other employees confirmed the cost-cutting and that the manager's work was planned to be fully replaced by neural networks, held that the refusal of part-time work had to be treated as a redundancy, and ordered her reinstatement with back pay and moral damages. The Moscow City Court (case 33-34099/2025) upheld the reinstatement and reduced the back-pay calculation; the court's case portal lists that appeal as concluded on 24 July 2025. The amounts are not given.","incidentDate":"2024-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-09-16","aiSystem":"Neural-network and AI technology that the employer said it introduced in 2024 and that, per the article, was planned to take over the manager's work; no system is named","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI tools","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm","financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to T-Zhurnal's account of the rulings, the manager's hours and pay were cut to two hours a day as the employer introduced AI, and she was dismissed when she refused; she said the dismissal left her without money and caused her stress. The courts ordered her reinstatement with back pay and moral damages.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One manager dismissed and reinstated; she did not use the AI tools herself (employer's adoption).","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"RU","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://t-j.ru/ai-ai-ai/","primarySourceLabel":"T-Zhurnal, Было дело: как компания заменила женщину нейросетью, 16 September 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-25T03:12:44.024601+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-25T03:12:44.024601+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-replacement","dismissal","reinstatement","reduced-hours","labour-court","moscow"]},{"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"]},{"id":"2024-aligarh-alleged-voice-cloning-fraud","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-claim-1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Article body, incident narrative and closing police statement","relation":"supports","source_id":"2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-source"}],"assertion":"Local reporting says a parent transferred INR 400,000 after a call claiming his son was in police trouble. The report says police stopped one INR 86,000 transaction.","causal_attribution":"Attributed in the account; independent causation has not been established."}],"effects":[{"label":"money_transferred","claim_id":"2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-claim-1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-source","url":"https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/aligarh/cheated-four-lakhs-by-creating-son-voice-with-ai-2024-02-01","kind":"local_reporting","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Model read the original language. No separate bilingual human review.","independence_group":"2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","fraud"],"unknowns":["AI technique is attributed to a police statement in reporting; no recording or forensic evidence read.","Final net loss and any later recovery are unknown.","The son's alleged offence was part of the scam narrative, not an allegation adopted by this dossier."],"geography":{"basis":"Report explicitly places the parent and incident in Aligarh, India.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Source body re-read, event boundary and duplicates checked, identity details minimized, and claim uncertainty stated.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"AI use is attributed in the source; no independent technical verification performed.","status":"reported"}},"name":"Aligarh parent reportedly transfers money after an alleged AI voice-impersonation call","summary":"Hindi reporting describes a parent in Aligarh transferring INR 400,000 after callers impersonated police and used a voice presented as his son’s. Police reportedly stopped INR 86,000. The AI attribution and transfers have not been independently verified here; final net loss is unknown.","incidentDate":"2024-01-30","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2024-02-02","aiSystem":"Unspecified voice-generation system","aiProduct":"Unidentified voice-cloning tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Local reporting says a parent transferred INR 400,000 after a call claiming his son was in police trouble. The report says police stopped one INR 86,000 transaction.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person is described as harmed in this account; wider affected populations are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/aligarh/cheated-four-lakhs-by-creating-son-voice-with-ai-2024-02-01","primarySourceLabel":"Amar Ujala, Hindi reporting","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-15T01:18:49.295668+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:50.779331+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["finance","fraud"]},{"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"]}]}