{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T06:43:01.210Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"hospitalization","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":5,"coverage":{"cases":5,"countries":2,"languages":3,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":2,"coreRelations":3,"contextualRelations":1,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":1,"relationPending":1,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-hangzhou-man-followed-ai-dosing-advice-in-tablets-took-triple-antiviral-dose-acute-kidney-injury","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'自行上网用AI搜索治疗建议，购买了“伐昔洛韦”口服。'; '而AI的用药建议只给了每次服用的“粒数”而不是“克”'; '超过标准剂量3倍，再加上服用了一次消炎止痛药，两种药物在超剂量使用时可出现急性肾小管坏死、过敏性间质性肾炎等急性肾衰表现。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'而AI建议中仅注明粒数而非具体克数。'; '便上网用AI搜索用药建议自行服用抗病毒药物，没想到几天后出现乏力恶心等症状被家人紧急送医。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the hospital, the patient used AI online to look up treatment for a cold sore and bought valaciclovir; the AI's advice gave the number of tablets per dose rather than the amount in grams, and because the imported tablets were three times the usual domestic strength he took more than three times the standard dose, plus an anti-inflammatory painkiller once.","causal_attribution":"The hospital's account as reported by Red Star News; the AI tool and its full answer are not published, and the hospital names the painkiller as a second drug in the overdose."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'近日，一名患者使用AI问诊后误服用大剂量药物，导致血肌酐飙升至10倍，出现急性药物性肾损伤，后经治疗已出院。'; '同时腹部CT平扫发现输尿管、膀胱均存在不规则的水肿，立刻由急诊收入肾病科病房。'; '血肌酐在5天内就降到了正常范围，目前已出院。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The patient was taken to the emergency department with a blood creatinine of about 800 umol/L, about ten times his earlier level, was admitted to the nephrology ward with acute drug-induced kidney injury, and after treatment his creatinine returned to normal within five days and he was discharged.","causal_attribution":"The hospital's clinical account relayed by the press; no medical record or case report is published."}],"effects":[{"label":"acute drug-induced kidney injury and hospital admission after an overdose (hospital account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.chinanews.com.cn/sh/2026/01-26/10558901.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-16; no human reviewer inspected the text. China News Service page of 26 January 2026 carrying a Red Star News report based on information from Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital.","independence_group":"tongde-hospital-account-2026-01"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.sohu.com/a/981400955_211762","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-16; no human reviewer inspected the text. Sohu account post of 29 January 2026 retelling the same hospital account; it adds no independent origin, so it shares s1's group.","independence_group":"tongde-hospital-account-2026-01"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool the patient used, what he asked and the full text of its advice.","The exact date of the overdose; the 26 January 2026 report describes it as recent.","How much the cold remedy and the painkiller contributed relative to the antiviral overdose."],"geography":{"basis":"The patient was treated at Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital in Hangzhou (China News Service; Sohu calls it a Hangzhou case), so CN is the event country. No source states his residence or nationality, so the affected-person country is left unknown. No court.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case: Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital, reported by Red Star News via China News Service, describes a patient who followed AI dosing advice given in tablets rather than grams, took more than three times the standard valaciclovir dose and was admitted with acute drug-induced kidney injury, recovering within five days. The AI's role is attributed to the hospital's account; the tool is unidentified.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-16"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital, as reported by Red Star News via China News Service, says the patient used AI online for treatment advice and that the AI's medication advice gave the number of tablets per dose but not the amount in grams; because the imported valaciclovir he bought was three times the usual strength, he took more than three times the standard dose. The described contribution is the AI's dosing answer to the patient (communicated_with), which the hospital connects to the overdose and the kidney injury. The tool and its exact output are not published, and the hospital also names a painkiller taken once, so the status is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Hangzhou hospital says a man took three times the standard antiviral dose after AI advice gave tablet counts, not grams, and developed acute kidney injury","summary":"Zhejiang Provincial Tongde Hospital in Hangzhou told Red Star News (relayed by China News Service on 26 January 2026) that a patient with a cold sore had recently used AI online to look up treatment, bought valaciclovir and took it as advised. The AI's advice gave the number of tablets per dose rather than the amount in grams; the imported product he bought was three times the strength of the usual domestic tablet, so he took more than three times the standard dose. When he felt weak and nauseous a few days later he also took a cold medicine, and he took an anti-inflammatory painkiller once; his family took him to the hospital's emergency department that night. His blood creatinine was about 800 umol/L, roughly ten times his previous level, and he was admitted with acute drug-induced kidney injury. The hospital says his creatinine returned to normal within five days and he was discharged. The AI tool and its exact wording are not identified.","incidentDate":"2026-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-01-26","aiSystem":"An AI tool the patient used online to search for treatment advice (not named); the hospital says its dosing advice gave the number of tablets per dose but not the amount in grams","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI search tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["hospitalization","medical_deterioration"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the hospital, the patient developed acute drug-induced kidney injury, with creatinine about ten times his earlier level, and was admitted from the emergency department; the hospital links this to taking more than three times the standard antiviral dose after AI advice that gave tablet counts without the strength, plus a painkiller. He recovered within five days.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One patient, described by the hospital as having used the AI advice himself; no one else is reported harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.chinanews.com.cn/sh/2026/01-26/10558901.shtml","primarySourceLabel":"China News Service (Red Star News), 26 January 2026: man took three times the dose after AI consultation, acute drug-induced kidney injury","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-16T03:09:44.700687+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-16T03:09:44.700687+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-medical-advice","medication-dosing","acute-kidney-injury","zhejiang","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-zhuji-zhejiang-man-ai-photo-check-called-wild-mushrooms-non-toxic-rhabdomyolysis-kidney-failure-icu","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'他在自家附近采了野蘑菇，经AI认证为无毒，便中午下锅煮了食用'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'下鍋前特別拍照上傳讓AI進行識別，看到系統認證無毒後，便於中午煮熟吃下'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'先拍照给AI分辨是否有毒，获回答无毒后才煮食'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A man in Zhuji, Zhejiang province, gathered wild mushrooms near his home, photographed them and submitted the picture to an AI tool, which answered that they were non-toxic; he then cooked and ate them at noon.","causal_attribution":"Reported by the Science and Technology Daily item (citing Zhuji Daily) and by the World Journal and Sing Tao (citing Dushi Kuaibao's Chengshi app); one underlying hospital-and-local-press account, the man not quoted directly, the tool not named."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'当天下午，该患者肚子开始不舒服，水样便接连5次，紧接着双上肢也出现酸痛症状'; '该患者肌酸激酶高达28771U/L，高出正常值的100倍，酸中毒、高乳酸血症接踵而至，这说明其已经出现急性肾衰竭和横纹肌溶解'; '患者被紧急送入ICU'; '目前患者已经康复出院'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'出現嚴重腹痛與連續5次水樣便腹瀉，隨後雙上肢酸痛、全身無力，家屬見狀緊急將其送往諸暨市人民醫院'; '確認已出現急性腎衰竭與橫紋肌溶解，情況相當危急。醫療團隊隨後將其轉入ICU，採取盡快排出毒素、對症治療及保護器官功能等搶救措施，成功拯救其性命並於近日順利出院'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'中午食用下午便出现严重肚泻，被家人送当地人民医院'; '确认已出现急性肾衰竭与横纹肌溶解，情况相当危急。医疗团队随后将其转入ICU'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The same afternoon he developed severe abdominal pain, five episodes of watery diarrhoea, aching arms and weakness; at Zhuji People's Hospital his creatine kinase was 28,771 U/L, about 100 times the normal value, with acidosis and raised lactate; he was diagnosed with acute kidney failure and rhabdomyolysis, treated in the intensive care unit, and later recovered and was discharged.","causal_attribution":"Clinical course as the reports relay it from Zhuji People's Hospital; no hospital record was inspected and the figures come from one underlying account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'記者找了5種野蘑菇，通過視頻通話功能進行AI輔助辨認'; '5種蘑菇存在兩處差異，AI所說的白小鬼傘實為硬柄小皮傘，大蓋小皮傘實為裸腳菇'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'8月18日，记者尝试向多款主流AI提问，AI均提醒，无法精准分辨毒蘑菇，更不能作为食用依据'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Separately from this case, reporters asked an AI tool to identify five wild mushrooms by video call and a Zhejiang University mycologist found two of the five identifications wrong, although the tool advised against eating all five; on 18 August 2026 reporters asked several mainstream AI tools, which all warned that they could not reliably identify poisonous mushrooms.","causal_attribution":"Journalists' own tests described in the reports; context on AI mushroom identification, not evidence about the tool this man used."}],"effects":[{"label":"rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure treated in intensive care after an AI photo check called gathered wild mushrooms non-toxic","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.dailyqd.com/guanhai/468896_1.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-10; no human reviewer inspected the text. Qingdao Daily (青报网), 20 August 2026, HTTP 200; the page states its source as the Science and Technology Daily WeChat account (科技日报微信公号), which attributes the case to Zhuji Daily (诸暨日报). It carries the same clinical figures as the Dushi Kuaibao chain relayed by s2 and s3, so it is grouped with them as one underlying account.","independence_group":"zhuji-hospital-local-press-account-2026-08"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.worldjournal.com/wj/story/121617/9703465","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in traditional Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-10; no human reviewer inspected the text. World Journal (世界新聞網), 20 August 2026, HTTP 200; the article attributes its account to Dushi Kuaibao's Chengshi app (都市快報橙柿互動). It gives the man's surname, which the public text does not repeat.","independence_group":"zhuji-hospital-local-press-account-2026-08"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.stheadline.com/zh-hans/realtime-china/3606699/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in simplified Chinese (the zh-hans edition of a Hong Kong outlet) and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-10; no human reviewer inspected the text. Sing Tao Headline, 21 August 2026, HTTP 200; the article attributes its account to Dushi Kuaibao's Chengshi app (都市快报橙柿互动) and repeats the World Journal's clinical passage, so it is the same chain as s2.","independence_group":"zhuji-hospital-local-press-account-2026-08"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool or app the man used, what it was shown and what exactly it answered; no report names the tool or reproduces the output.","The date of the meal and of admission: the reports of 20 and 21 August 2026 say only that it happened recently (不久前, 日前) and that he has since been discharged.","The mushroom species and the toxin involved; the reports describe the clinical findings but name no species.","The man's age and whether anyone else ate the mushrooms; the reports describe one patient.","The Zhuji Daily and Dushi Kuaibao originals, which were not located; the account rests on relays of those items."],"geography":{"basis":"The Qingdao Daily item says the patient was admitted to the intensive care unit of Zhuji People's Hospital and picked the mushrooms near his home; the World Journal and Sing Tao place him in Zhuji, Zhejiang province, and say his family took him to Zhuji People's Hospital. The affected man lives in Zhuji. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case on one attributed account: a Science and Technology Daily item carried by Qingdao Daily (citing Zhuji Daily) and World Journal and Sing Tao reports (citing Dushi Kuaibao's Chengshi app) all say the man photographed gathered wild mushrooms, received a non-toxic answer from an AI tool, ate them, and was treated in intensive care for rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure. Every claim is attributed to those reports. The man is not named in the public text; the hospital is a public institution named in all three reports.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-10"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Science and Technology Daily item carried by Qingdao Daily says the man ate the wild mushrooms after they were \"certified non-toxic by AI\" (\"经AI认证为无毒\"); the World Journal and Sing Tao, citing Dushi Kuaibao's Chengshi app, say he photographed the mushrooms and uploaded the picture for AI identification and ate them after the system answered non-toxic (\"看到系統認證無毒後\", \"获回答无毒后才煮食\"). The tool's answer to the man is the described contribution (communicated_with), and all three reports connect that answer to his eating the mushrooms and to the rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure that followed. The tool is not identified, the photograph and output are not reproduced, the mushroom species is not named, and the account rests on one hospital-and-local-press account from Zhuji; whether the mushrooms would have been eaten without the answer is not established.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Zhuji, Zhejiang: reports say a man ate wild mushrooms after an AI photo check called them non-toxic; rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure treated in an ICU","summary":"A man in Zhuji, Zhejiang province, gathered wild mushrooms near his home, photographed them and asked an AI tool whether they were poisonous, according to a Science and Technology Daily item carried by Qingdao Daily on 20 August 2026 (citing Zhuji Daily) and reports by the World Journal (20 August) and Sing Tao (21 August) citing Dushi Kuaibao's Chengshi app. The reports say the tool answered that the mushrooms were non-toxic and he cooked and ate them at noon. That afternoon he developed severe abdominal pain, repeated watery diarrhoea and aching arms; at Zhuji People's Hospital his creatine kinase was reported at 28,771 U/L, about 100 times the normal value, with acidosis and raised lactate, and doctors diagnosed rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure. He was moved to the intensive care unit, treated to remove the toxin and protect organ function, and has since been discharged. The AI tool is not named, its output is not reproduced, and the account rests on one hospital-and-local-press account relayed by two chains.","incidentDate":"2026-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-08-20","aiSystem":"An AI tool (not identified by name) to which the man submitted a photograph of gathered wild mushrooms and which, according to the reports, answered that they were non-toxic (\"经AI认证为无毒\", \"系統認證無毒\")","aiProduct":"Unidentified mushroom-identification tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["hospitalization","medical_deterioration"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the reports, the man was admitted to Zhuji People's Hospital with rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure after eating wild mushrooms that an AI tool had called non-toxic, was treated in the intensive care unit and later discharged.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the reports describe a single patient (\"一名患者\" in the Qingdao Daily item; \"一名浙江男子\" in the World Journal) who ran the AI check himself and ate the mushrooms, so he is counted as one direct user; no other person is reported harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.dailyqd.com/guanhai/468896_1.html","primarySourceLabel":"Qingdao Daily (Science and Technology Daily item citing Zhuji Daily), 20 August 2026: \"certified non-toxic by AI\", one person in ICU after eating wild mushrooms","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-10T03:26:28.359362+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-10T03:26:28.359362+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["mushroom-identification","image-recognition","poisoning","hospitalisation","foraging","china","zhejiang","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-zhejiang-toddler-ai-asthma-diagnosis-mother-declined-chest-xray-pneumonia-hospitalised","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'今年8月，浙江一名3岁男童阳阳（化名）的案例令人警醒。阳阳有哮喘病史，妈妈在AI上输入“过敏、哮喘、咳嗽、夜间咳喘”等关键词，AI快速给出“支气管哮喘急性发作”的诊断'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In August 2026 the mother of a three-year-old boy with a history of asthma in Zhejiang entered the keywords allergy, asthma, cough and night-time wheezing into an AI tool, which quickly returned a diagnosis of an acute bronchial asthma attack (newspaper account).","causal_attribution":"Guangming Daily's account; the tool is not identified."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'阳阳妈妈据此拒绝医生建议的胸部X线平片检查，坚持只开雾化药回家'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"On the basis of that AI diagnosis the mother declined the chest X-ray examination the doctor recommended and insisted on taking home only nebuliser medication.","causal_attribution":"The feature attributes the refusal to the AI diagnosis (据此); this is the newspaper's account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'两天后孩子病情加重、呼吸急促，连夜返院检查发现双肺大面积炎症病灶，确诊为偏肺病毒肺炎叠加细菌感染，紧急住院'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Two days later the child's condition worsened with rapid breathing; on an overnight return to the hospital, examination found extensive inflammatory lesions in both lungs, and he was diagnosed with human metapneumovirus pneumonia with a superimposed bacterial infection and admitted as an emergency.","causal_attribution":"Clinical course as described in the newspaper feature; it does not say whether pneumonia was present at the first visit."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'“他们要是早点听我的，病情也不至于这么严重。”浙江省中医院儿科主任李岚无奈地说'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The head of paediatrics at Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine is quoted saying the illness would not have become so severe had the family listened earlier.","causal_attribution":"The clinician's assessment that earlier compliance would have limited the severity; the newspaper reports it without an independent review of the records."}],"effects":[{"label":"Three-year-old admitted as an emergency with pneumonia two days after his mother, relying on an AI tool's acute-asthma diagnosis, declined a recommended chest X-ray (newspaper account)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://finance.sina.cn/2026-10-08/detail-iniumumr7827547.d.html","kind":"news_article","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Chinese body read in full on 2026-10-09 and translated by the research agent (an AI). The Sina Finance page republishes a Bingtuan Daily item (兵团日报, dated 10.08 01:37) credited at the end to Guangming Daily (据《光明日报》); the case passage is told in the newspaper's voice and closes with a quotation from the hospital's head of paediatrics; the feature does not say where its account came from. Re-read on 2026-10-11.","independence_group":"guangming-daily-feature"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool the mother used.","Whether the tool's acute-asthma diagnosis was wrong in itself or only incomplete; the feature describes the later pneumonia diagnosis, not the asthma assessment.","Whether pneumonia was present or detectable at the first visit, when the chest X-ray was declined.","The exact dates in August 2026 of the first visit and the readmission.","The child's course after the emergency admission.","The family's own account, and where the newspaper obtained its account of the case; only the feature's account, closed with the paediatrics head's quotation, is available."],"geography":{"basis":"The feature places the case in Zhejiang (浙江一名3岁男童) and the treating clinician at Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, so the event and the affected child are in China. No court is involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a concrete account in a national newspaper feature of a parent relying on an AI tool's symptom diagnosis for a young child, declining a recommended chest X-ray, and the child being admitted as an emergency two days later with pneumonia. Every assertion is attributed to the newspaper's account, and the view that the illness would have been less severe had the family listened earlier is attributed to the paediatrics head. The tool is unnamed. The child's pseudonym from the article appears only inside the verbatim Chinese passages of claims c1 and c2 and is not used in the narrative. The worsening and emergency admission after the declined X-ray, rather than the AI's asthma assessment, is recorded as the harm.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The feature states what the AI tool produced: after the mother entered the keywords allergy, asthma, cough and night-time wheezing, it quickly returned the diagnosis acute bronchial asthma attack. It connects that output to the harm in the next sentences: on that basis the mother declined the chest X-ray the doctor recommended and took home only nebuliser medication, and two days later the child was found to have extensive bilateral lung inflammation and was admitted as an emergency with metapneumovirus pneumonia and a bacterial infection. The account is Guangming Daily's, closed with a quotation from the hospital's head of paediatrics; the tool is unnamed and the family's own version is not reported, so the involvement is recorded as reported rather than supported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about","informed_decision_about"]},"name":"Zhejiang toddler hospitalised with pneumonia after his mother relied on an AI tool's asthma diagnosis and declined a chest X-ray (newspaper account)","summary":"A Guangming Daily feature on AI symptom-checking, republished by Bingtuan Daily on Sina Finance on 8 October 2026, recounts a case from August 2026 in Zhejiang and closes it with a quotation from the head of paediatrics at a provincial hospital, who says the family did not heed the doctor's advice. A three-year-old boy with a history of asthma was brought in; his mother had entered keywords such as allergy, asthma, cough and night-time wheezing into an AI tool, which quickly returned a diagnosis of an acute bronchial asthma attack. On that basis, the account says, she declined the chest X-ray the doctor recommended and insisted on taking home only nebuliser medication. Two days later the child's condition worsened with rapid breathing; on an overnight return to the hospital, examination found extensive inflammatory lesions in both lungs, and he was diagnosed with human metapneumovirus pneumonia with a superimposed bacterial infection and admitted as an emergency. The paediatrics head is quoted saying the illness would not have become so severe had the family listened earlier. The AI tool is not named. The case is told in the newspaper's voice, and the feature does not say where its account came from beyond the paediatrics head's quotation; no statement from the family is reported.","incidentDate":"2026-08-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-08","aiSystem":"An unnamed AI tool into which, by the account in the Guangming Daily feature, the mother entered symptom keywords and which returned a diagnosis of an acute bronchial asthma attack","aiProduct":"Unidentified symptom-analysis tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["medical_deterioration","hospitalization","treatment_disruption"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"By the newspaper's account, after his mother, relying on an AI tool's acute-asthma diagnosis, declined the chest X-ray a doctor advised, a three-year-old's condition worsened over two days and he was admitted as an emergency with metapneumovirus pneumonia and a bacterial infection; the paediatrics head is quoted saying the illness would not have become so severe had the family listened earlier.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One child is reported harmed. The mother used the AI tool; the harm fell on the child, so he is counted as another person harmed and no direct user is counted as harmed.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://finance.sina.cn/2026-10-08/detail-iniumumr7827547.d.html","primarySourceLabel":"Sina Finance (Bingtuan Daily, credited to Guangming Daily), AI热潮下医患问诊之变与辨, 8 October 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-09T03:36:33.441089+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:43:54.606673+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["health","symptom_checker","children","declined_examination","china"]},{"id":"2026-wuhan-family-ai-mushroom-identification-non-poisonous-child-critical-amatoxin-poisoning","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'采摘了一批外形酷似鸡枞菌的野生蘑菇。为规避风险，家人特意借助AI识别工具辨别菌类，在得到“无毒”的识别结果后，放心将蘑菇烹饪食用'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'AIアプリが「毒はない」と判定したことから調理して食べた'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A family from Wuhan gathered wild mushrooms resembling the edible jizong mushroom on a mountain outing, used an AI identification tool to check them, received a \"non-poisonous\" result, and cooked and ate them.","causal_attribution":"Reported by the Guangming Online post and, citing the Changjiang Daily, by the Asahi Shimbun; one reporting chain, no family member quoted directly, tool not named."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'一家三口相继出现呕吐、肠胃不适等症状'; '紧急前往武汉大学中南医院急救中心就诊并住院治疗。入院后，小奥的病情持续加重，当天下午便被转入儿科重症监护室接受救治'; '相继引发急性肝衰竭、肝性脑病、胸腹水等多重并发症，生命一度陷入垂危。在住院治疗8天后，小奥顺利康复回家'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'一時は生死の境をさまよう出来事があった'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"All three family members developed vomiting and were admitted to Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University; the child was moved to the paediatric intensive care unit, had amatoxin poisoning with acute liver failure, hepatic encephalopathy and pleural and abdominal effusions, and recovered after eight days in hospital.","causal_attribution":"Clinical course as described in the Guangming Online post, which attributes it to the hospital findings (\"经检查\"); the Asahi report confirms only that the boy was at one point critical. No hospital record was inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'中国湖北省武漢市で6月、野生のキノコを食べた9歳の少年が'; '少年は6月下旬ごろ、両親と山を訪れた際に'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'9岁男孩生死抢救8天'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The child was 9 years old and the outing took place in Wuhan around late June 2026.","causal_attribution":"Age from both reports; the late-June timing is the Asahi Shimbun's account of the Changjiang Daily report, and the Guangming post dates the event only as recent (\"日前\")."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'依靠外观、民间偏方、简易工具、AI识别都不能准确辨别蘑菇毒性'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The post's expert reminder states that appearance, folk remedies, simple tools and AI identification cannot accurately determine mushroom toxicity, and that amatoxins are not destroyed by cooking, frying, drying or garlic.","causal_attribution":"An unnamed expert reminder in the post; context for the AI tool's limits, not evidence about this family's tool."}],"effects":[{"label":"amatoxin poisoning and intensive-care treatment of a child, and hospitalisation of the whole family, after an AI identification tool called gathered wild mushrooms non-poisonous","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33523074","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09; no human reviewer inspected the text. The page is a Guangming Online media post hosted on The Paper (澎湃号·媒体), published 5 July 2026, HTTP 200. Its retained text does not name its original source; it carries the same account that the Asahi Shimbun attributes to the Changjiang Daily, so it is grouped with that chain.","independence_group":"changjiang-daily-wuhan-report-2026-07"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASV762TYLV76UHBI019M.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Read in Japanese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-08 and re-read from the saved body on 2026-10-09; no human reviewer inspected the text. Asahi Shimbun, 6 July 2026, HTTP 200; the article is paywalled after its opening paragraphs, so only the lead and the first four paragraphs were inspected. It attributes its account to the Changjiang Daily (長江日報), a Wuhan newspaper, and is therefore the same reporting chain as s1.","independence_group":"changjiang-daily-wuhan-report-2026-07"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool or app the family used, what it was shown and what exactly it answered; neither report names the tool or reproduces the output.","The exact date of the outing and of admission; the Asahi Shimbun gives late June 2026 citing the Changjiang Daily, and the Guangming post says only recently.","Which family member operated the tool and whether the adults needed intensive care; the post says all three were admitted but details only the child's course.","The Changjiang Daily's original report, which was not located; the account rests on a relay and on the Asahi Shimbun's partial, paywalled summary of it."],"geography":{"basis":"The post says the family is from Wuhan, Hubei province, and that the three were treated at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University; the Asahi report places the event in Wuhan, Hubei province, in June. The affected family lives in Wuhan. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case on one attributed chain: a Guangming Online post carried by The Paper and an Asahi Shimbun report citing the Changjiang Daily both say the family ran an AI identification tool that called the gathered mushrooms non-poisonous and ate them, and that the 9-year-old child became critically ill; the Guangming Online post attributes the illness to amatoxin poisoning and gives its intensive-care course. Every claim is attributed to those reports. The child and the parents are not named (the post uses a pseudonym), and the hospital, a public institution, is named in the Guangming Online post.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-09"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Guangming Online post carried by The Paper says the family used an AI identification tool to tell the gathered mushrooms apart and, after it returned a \"non-poisonous\" (\"无毒\") result, cooked and ate them; the Asahi Shimbun, citing the Changjiang Daily, says an AI app judged the mushrooms to have no poison. The tool's answer to the family is the described contribution (communicated_with), and both reports connect that answer to the family eating the mushrooms and to the poisoning that followed, which the Guangming Online post attributes to amatoxin. The tool is not identified, the photograph and output are not reproduced, and the account rests on one reporting chain from Wuhan; whether the mushrooms would have been eaten without the result is not established.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Wuhan, China: reports say a family ate wild mushrooms an AI identification tool called non-poisonous and a 9-year-old fell critically ill; one cites amatoxin","summary":"A family from Wuhan, Hubei province, gathered wild mushrooms resembling the edible termite mushroom (jizong) during a mountain outing in June 2026 and, according to a Guangming Online post carried by The Paper on 5 July 2026 and an Asahi Shimbun report of 6 July citing the Changjiang Daily, ran an AI identification tool on them. The tool returned a \"non-poisonous\" result and the family cooked and ate the mushrooms. According to the Guangming Online post, all three family members vomited soon after the meal and again before dawn the next day; they were admitted to Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, where the 9-year-old child was moved to the paediatric intensive care unit the same afternoon. The post says the child had amatoxin poisoning that progressed to the most severe grade, with acute liver failure, hepatic encephalopathy and fluid in the chest and abdomen, and went home after eight days in hospital. The AI tool is not named, its output is not reproduced, and the account comes from one reporting chain.","incidentDate":"2026-06-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-07-05","aiSystem":"AI image-identification tool (\"AI识别工具\", \"AIアプリ\" in the reports), not identified by name, which the family in Wuhan used to check gathered wild mushrooms and which returned a \"non-poisonous\" result","aiProduct":"Unidentified mushroom-identification tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["hospitalization","medical_deterioration"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the reports, the family ate wild mushrooms that an AI identification tool had called non-poisonous; the Guangming Online post says all three family members were poisoned and admitted to hospital and that the 9-year-old child developed amatoxin poisoning with acute liver failure and hepatic encephalopathy, was treated in a paediatric intensive care unit, and recovered after eight days in hospital.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Three people: the post says all three family members (\"一家三口\") fell ill and that the whole family was admitted to hospital (\"一家人尽数入院治疗\"). The family ran the AI tool (\"家人特意借助AI识别工具\"), so at least one of the poisoned adults was a direct user (participant_users_affected_min 1); the child, aged 9, and the other adult are counted as other people harmed because the reports do not say who operated the tool.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33523074","primarySourceLabel":"The Paper (Guangming Online post), 5 July 2026: family used AI identification that said \"non-poisonous\", all poisoned, 9-year-old fought for life for 8 days","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-09T03:36:19.538425+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:39:57.221487+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["mushroom-identification","image-recognition","poisoning","hospitalisation","foraging","minors","china","wuhan","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-mount-shasta-gemini-planned-climb-rescue","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Re-checked on 2026-10-13 against the source bodies, all English: CBS Sacramento (read from an Internet Archive capture because the live page refused this host), the San Francisco Chronicle text as syndicated on Yahoo News, ABC News, KRCR, the USA Today report on The Spokesman-Review, Jefferson Public Radio and Straight Arrow News. Every report relaying the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office account places the stranding, injury and rescue on Mount Shasta in California (Clear Creek Route, Mud Creek Canyon), which supports event_countries US. CBS, ABC, the Chronicle copy and USA Today say the three hikers are from Roseville, California, which supports affected_person_countries US; residence was used only for that role. No court, prosecution or lawsuit appears in any body, so court_countries is empty. The 2026-09-15 evidence passage from the summary is replaced by source-body passages.","evidence":[{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Three novice hikers became stranded on California's Mount Shasta over the weekend","location":"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/mount-shasta-hikers-rescued-california-ai-incorrect-instructions/","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Mount Shasta is a California stratovolcano that rises more than 14,000 feet","location":"https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/sep/04/hikers-rescued-after-ai-misroutes-strands-them-on-/","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"the three young men from Roseville, California became stuck on the mountain during their descent","location":"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/mount-shasta-hikers-rescued-california-ai-incorrect-instructions/","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"The three men from Roseville, California, made camp at about 8,400 feet last Saturday","location":"https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/sep/04/hikers-rescued-after-ai-misroutes-strands-them-on-/","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["Sequence detail for the next full review: CBS says the group wandered into the Mud Creek Canyon drainage and one hiker then fell and injured his knee; ABC says the injury happened before the group wandered off route. The stored narrative follows CBS.","Contributing factors not in the stored narrative: the Chronicle copy on Yahoo News reports that the climbers navigated by following the line of a digital map in the AllTrails app, misreading it as an established trail, and that during the descent the phone they navigated with ran out of battery and the spare power bank did not connect before they ended up well off-route. These are reported non-Gemini navigation factors. The sheriff's statement attributes only the food and water shortfall to Gemini. The hikers' prompts and Gemini's replies remain unpublished, and Google says it could not reproduce the advice.","The San Francisco Chronicle original was not readable from this host (bot-check page live and in the Internet Archive); its text was read through the Yahoo News syndication.","Attribution detail for the next full review: the stored detailed_description says the climbers told the San Francisco Chronicle 'We relied too much on AI rather than our own critical thinking' and described the carbohydrate advice. The Chronicle copy on Yahoo News quotes both from an official report, and Jefferson Public Radio says the climbers told Forest Service rangers about the carbohydrate advice. The Chronicle copy also says rangers escorted the group back to its base camp, where CBS, ABC, USA Today and Jefferson Public Radio say the trailhead."],"reviewed_on":"2026-10-13","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/mount-shasta-hikers-rescued-california-ai-incorrect-instructions/","notes":"Cited primary source. The live page returned HTTP 406 to this host on 2026-10-13, so the body was read in full from an Internet Archive capture (web.archive.org/web/2026id_/, gzip, decompressed); html lang en-US. Relays the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office press release: hikers from Roseville, California; stranded on California's Mount Shasta; base camp at about 8,400 feet on Saturday, summit at 7 p.m. Sunday, off-route into the Mud Creek Canyon drainage on the mountain's southern side, rescue on Monday; the sheriff's statement that Gemini advised far less food and water than the group required.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/article/shasta-climbers-rescued-chatgpt-22414629.php","notes":"San Francisco Chronicle original. Live fetch on 2026-10-13 returned HTTP 200 with a 3 kB bot-check page and no article; the Internet Archive capture returned the same page. Not read here; its text was read through the Yahoo News syndication listed separately.","access":"unavailable","language":null},{"url":"https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/climbers-rescued-mount-shasta-relying-214819015.html","notes":"San Francisco Chronicle article as syndicated on Yahoo News, fetched live on 2026-10-13 (HTTP 200, html lang en-US) and read in full. Calls the three climbers California college students from Roseville; places the start at the Clear Creek Trailhead on Shasta's southeastern side; reports that they navigated by following a line in the AllTrails app, misreading it as an established trail, in addition to asking Gemini; carries a correction that an earlier version misstated the AI tool (the Chronicle original's URL slug still reads chatgpt).","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://abcnews.com/US/3-hikers-ai-plan-trip-rescued-after-becoming/story?id=136176177","notes":"Fetched live on 2026-10-13 (HTTP 200, html lang en), read in full. Attributes the account to the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office; Roseville, California hikers; rescue Monday near the Clear Creek Route; one caption reads Mount Shasta in Siskiyou County, Calif. Its sequence differs slightly from CBS: it says the knee injury happened before the group wandered into Mud Creek Canyon. ABC said it had asked Google for comment.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://krcrtv.com/news/local/sheriff-discusses-mount-shasta-rescue-after-hikers-relied-on-ai-to-plan-trip","notes":"Fetched live on 2026-10-13 (HTTP 200, html lang en), read in full (Redding dateline). Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue interview; rescue along the Clear Creek Route. A photo caption dates the rescue to Sun., Aug. 31, 2026, but 31 August 2026 was a Monday and the text says Monday.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/sep/04/hikers-rescued-after-ai-misroutes-strands-them-on-/","notes":"USA Today report syndicated by The Spokesman-Review, fetched live on 2026-10-13 (HTTP 200, html lang en), read in full. Three men from Roseville, California; Mount Shasta described in the text as a California stratovolcano and in the photo caption as in Siskiyou County; same sheriff's office account.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.ijpr.org/outdoors-leisure-and-sports/2026-09-04/mount-shasta-hikers-relied-on-ai-their-trip-ended-in-a-rescue","notes":"Jefferson Public Radio, fetched live on 2026-10-13 (HTTP 200, html lang en), read in full. Sheriff's statement and ranger Nick Meyers interview; one hiker injured a knee and the group spent the night in Mud Creek Canyon. Names no residence.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://san.com/cc/chatbots-dont-climb-mountains-so-why-are-hikers-getting-lost-after-trusting-them/","notes":"Straight Arrow News, 8 October 2026, fetched live on 2026-10-13 (HTTP 200, html lang en-US), read in full. A roundup of AI-related hiking rescues; two paragraphs on this case relay the sheriff's office account and a Google spokesperson's statement that the company holds no prompts and could not reproduce the advice. Adds no location detail.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Mount Shasta climb planned with Google Gemini: night stranding, knee injury and rescue (Siskiyou County, California)","summary":"Three novice hikers from Roseville, California, planned a Mount Shasta summit attempt with Google's Gemini, which the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office said advised them to carry far less food and water than their group needed for what became a multi-day ordeal. After reaching the summit at 7 p.m. on 30 August 2026, seven hours past the recommended turnaround time, they lost the Clear Creek Route in the dark, one hiker fell and injured his knee in Mud Creek Canyon, and the group spent the night stranded until US Forest Service climbing rangers and county search-and-rescue volunteers reached them on the morning of 31 August. The sheriff's office called the reliance on Gemini 'a critical misstep'.","incidentDate":"2026-08-29","incidentEndDate":"2026-08-31","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-02","aiSystem":"Google Gemini","aiProduct":"Gemini","aiCompany":"Google","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["physical_injury"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"One hiker fell and injured his knee during a night descent off the route. The group of three spent the night stranded in the steep drainage of Mud Creek Canyon without adequate food or water and was found 'exhausted, hungry and thirsty' the next morning. All three received medical aid and walked out with rescuers; no hospitalization was reported.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P5b","P5c"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":3,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The sheriff's account documents all three AI-using hikers stranded and requiring rescue and medical aid, including one with a knee injury.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-CA","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/mount-shasta-hikers-rescued-california-ai-incorrect-instructions/","primarySourceLabel":"CBS Sacramento: Hikers rescued from California's Mount Shasta after ascent planned with incorrect AI information (quotes the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office statement)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-05T11:55:07.681677+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-13T03:03:22.817175+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["gemini","google","physical-safety","trip-planning","rescue","competence-boundaries","us","adult"]}]}