{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T08:31:26.767Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"physical-safety","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"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-polish-tatras-lithuanian-hikers-ai-suggested-shortcut-stranded-helicopter-evacuation","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Jak poinformował ratownik dyżurny TOPR, chcąc skrócić drogę do Doliny Pięciu Stawów Polskich, turyści skorzystali z podpowiedzi sztucznej inteligencji.'; 'AI wskazała im przejście Świnicką Ławką. Przez to znaleźli się w trudnym terenie wspinaczkowym'; 'ewakuacja dwojga turystów z Litwy, którzy utknęli pod Niebieską Turnią'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'turyści skorzystali z podpowiedzi sztucznej inteligencji, która wskazała im przejście przez Świnicką Ławkę. W efekcie trafili w trudny teren wspinaczkowy.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'W pewnym momencie zboczyli ze szlaku i utknęli w ścianie skalnej w okolicach Niebieskiej Turni.'; 'Doprowadziło to ich do sytuacji, gdzie pojawili się w bardzo trudnym, eksponowanym, taternickim terenie.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Jednocześnie z rejonu Świnicy zatelefonowała do centrali TOPR dwójka Litwinów, którzy zapchali się w północną ścianę.'; 'Utknęli pod Niebieską Turnią w terenie wspinaczkowym.'; 'Jak się okazało chcieli skrócić sobie drogę do Pięciu Stawów korzystając z porad czatu GPT (!), który wskazał im przejście Świnicką Ławką.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"In early July 2026 two tourists from Lithuania, trying to shorten their route to the Valley of Five Polish Lakes, used suggestions from an artificial-intelligence assistant that pointed them across Świnicka Ławka, and they became stuck in difficult climbing terrain below Niebieska Turnia in the Polish Tatras.","causal_attribution":"The account is TOPR's, published in its own report of 10 July 2026 and relayed by PAP (RMF24, Onet) and TVN24 (one origin), so the claim is reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ostatecznie zostali ewakuowani śmigłowcem'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Ostatecznie zostali ewakuowani przy użyciu śmigłowca.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Ratownicy polecieli po nich śmigłowcem i przetransportowali do Zakopanego.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Wszyscy zostali bezpiecznie ewakuowani śmigłowcem.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"TOPR evacuated the two hikers by helicopter; TVN24's reporter said they were flown to Zakopane.","causal_attribution":"TOPR's own description of its action in its 10 July 2026 report, relayed by three outlets from the same statement."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Publikacja: Piątek, 10 lipca 2026'; 'Na początku wakacji ratownicy TOPR mieli ręce pełne roboty.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Doszło do niej na początku lipca, ale TOPR podzielił się szczegółami akcji dopiero teraz.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'The rescue service received the emergency call on the afternoon of July 4.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'Pierwszy tydzień lipca był wyjątkowo pracowity dla TOPR-u'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'4 lipca'; '16.24 zgłoszenie z Rysów, gdzie urazu kostki doznała turystka'; 'Jednocześnie z rejonu Świnicy zatelefonowała do centrali TOPR dwójka Litwinów, którzy zapchali się w północną ścianę.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"TOPR's own report of 10 July 2026 lists the Lithuanian pair's call among its 4 July 2026 entries, at the same time as a 16:24 call from Rysy, and LRT, citing TOPR, reported that the emergency call came on the afternoon of 4 July; the Polish relays place the event at the start of July within TOPR's summary of the first week of July (published 10 to 11 July) and give no day.","causal_attribution":"The day and afternoon timing come from TOPR's own log and LRT's write-up of TOPR's statement (one origin), so the date stays reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'wspomagając się podpowiedziami jednego z popularnych modeli AI'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'In July, two Lithuanian hikers trying to shorten their route through Poland’s Tatra Mountains followed ChatGPT’s advice onto climbing terrain and rescuers had to evacuate them by helicopter, according to the Polish rescue service TOPR.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'following route advice from an AI chatbot, the Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue Service (TOPR) said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'Jak się okazało chcieli skrócić sobie drogę do Pięciu Stawów korzystając z porad czatu GPT (!), który wskazał im przejście Świnicką Ławką.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"TOPR's own report of 10 July 2026 says the hikers used ChatGPT's advice ('porad czatu GPT'); the Polish relays of TOPR's account name no product ('sztuczna inteligencja'; 'one of the popular AI models'), LRT, citing TOPR, wrote 'an AI chatbot', and Straight Arrow News reported in October 2026 that the hikers followed ChatGPT's advice, attributing this to TOPR.","causal_attribution":"TOPR's report names ChatGPT ('porad czatu GPT'); the PAP relays and LRT omit the product; how TOPR learned it is not stated. The identification is TOPR's account, so the label carries (reported)."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Po raz kolejny apelujemy o rozsądny dobór celów górskich wycieczek i nieprzecenianie swoich możliwości'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'ratownicy odradzają korzystanie ze sztucznej inteligencji podczas wędrówek w Tatrach'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"No injury to the hikers is reported; TOPR appealed for a sensible choice of mountain objectives and TVN24's reporter said rescuers advise against using artificial intelligence to plan Tatra hikes.","causal_attribution":"Absence of a reported injury is an observation about the inspected bodies, which describe injuries in other incidents of the same week but none here."}],"effects":[{"label":"stranded in difficult, exposed climbing terrain after following an AI assistant's shortcut suggestion (TOPR account)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"helicopter evacuation by TOPR needed","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.rmf24.pl/regiony/zakopane/news-dwoje-turystow-utknelo-w-tatrach-przewodniczka-byla-sztuczna,nIdn,1009565","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pl","translation_note":"Read in Polish by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-10 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. RMF24 compilation of the TOPR duty rescuer's statement as distributed by PAP; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"topr-duty-rescuer-statement-pap-jul-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://podroze.onet.pl/aktualnosci/ai-zaprowadzila-ich-w-pulapke-turysci-z-litwy-utkneli-w-tatrach/0c5dj9w","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pl","translation_note":"Read in Polish by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-10 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. Onet compilation crediting PAP and quoting the same TOPR statement; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"topr-duty-rescuer-statement-pap-jul-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://tvn24.pl/tvnmeteo/polska/tatry-wedrowali-w-gorach-z-pomoca-ai-musial-ratowac-ich-topr-st9138125","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"pl","translation_note":"Read in Polish by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-10 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. TVN24 Meteo write-up of its reporter's on-air relay of TOPR's account; the direct fetch returned HTTP 403 and the body was read from an Internet Archive capture of the same URL.","independence_group":"topr-duty-rescuer-statement-pap-jul-2026"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://san.com/cc/chatbots-dont-climb-mountains-so-why-are-hikers-getting-lost-after-trusting-them/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09 and 2026-10-10. One-sentence mention in a feature on AI-planned hikes; it names ChatGPT and attributes the account to TOPR; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"straight-arrow-news-feature-oct-2026"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2989219/two-lithuanian-tourists-stranded-in-polish-mountains-after-following-ai-advice","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-10; LRT English write-up of TOPR's statement ('TOPR said'), same TOPR origin as the Polish relays; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"topr-duty-rescuer-statement-pap-jul-2026"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://topr.pl/pracowity-poczatek-lipca-dla-ratownikow-topr/","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"pl","translation_note":"Read in Polish by a research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-11 and translated by it into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. TOPR's own day-by-day report on its website, 'Pracowity początek lipca dla ratowników TOPR', posted 10 July 2026; fetched directly, HTTP 200. It is the statement that PAP, RMF24, Onet, TVN24 and LRT relay, so it shares their independence group. Its entries on other rescues the same week are not quoted.","independence_group":"topr-duty-rescuer-statement-pap-jul-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["What the hikers asked the assistant and what it replied, including whether it warned about the terrain; the exchange has not been published.","How TOPR learned that the route came from an AI assistant.","The hikers' ages, genders and experience."],"geography":{"basis":"Niebieska Turnia, Świnicka Ławka and the Valley of Five Polish Lakes are on the Polish side of the Tatras, the rescue service is Poland's TOPR and TVN24 says the hikers were flown to Zakopane, so PL is the event country. The affected persons are described by every source as tourists from Lithuania ('turyści z Litwy'; Onet 'Litwini', Lithuanians; LRT 'Two Lithuanian hikers'), recorded as LT on that descriptor alone; no residence is stated. No court.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["PL"],"affected_person_countries":["LT"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (communicated_with) at low severity: Poland's mountain rescue service describes two hikers who followed an AI assistant's suggested shortcut across Świnicka Ławka into difficult climbing terrain and had to be evacuated by helicopter. The account is TOPR's own report of 10 July 2026, relayed by PAP, three Polish outlets and LRT, and every claim is marked reported; the product naming (ChatGPT) comes from TOPR's report, which the relays omit, and the exchange is unpublished, which the record states. No person is named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The TOPR duty rescuer, quoted by PAP and relayed by RMF24 and Onet, said the two tourists used suggestions from artificial intelligence to shorten their way to the Valley of Five Polish Lakes and that the assistant pointed them across Świnicka Ławka, as a result of which they found themselves in difficult climbing terrain and had to be evacuated by helicopter. TVN24's reporter said they were using one of the popular AI models and strayed from the trail into a rock face near Niebieska Turnia. The assistant's output (a route suggestion across Świnicka Ławka) and its consequence (stranding in climbing terrain, helicopter evacuation) are both described by the rescue service; TOPR's own report of 10 July 2026 says the pair used ChatGPT's advice ('porad czatu GPT'), which pointed them to the Świnicka Ławka passage; the exchange itself is unpublished, how TOPR learned this is not stated and the PAP relays omit the product, so the status is reported. LRT, citing TOPR, wrote that the pair had relied on guidance generated by an AI tool which directed them onto a route they could not complete on their own.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"TOPR says two Lithuanian hikers followed an AI assistant's shortcut suggestion into climbing terrain in the Polish Tatras and were evacuated by helicopter","summary":"The Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue service (TOPR), summarising a busy first week of July 2026, told the Polish Press Agency that two tourists from Lithuania became stuck below Niebieska Turnia in the Polish Tatras. According to the TOPR duty rescuer, as relayed by RMF24 and Onet, the pair wanted to shorten their way to the Valley of Five Polish Lakes and used suggestions from an artificial-intelligence assistant, which pointed them across Świnicka Ławka; they ended up in difficult climbing terrain and were evacuated by helicopter. TVN24's reporter said the event happened at the start of July, that the hikers were using 'one of the popular AI models', that good weather let rescuers locate them quickly and that they were flown to Zakopane. TOPR's own report of 10 July lists the call among its afternoon entries for 4 July, as LRT also reported on 13 July, and says the pair had used ChatGPT's advice ('porad czatu GPT'); the PAP relays name no product, and the hikers' exchanges with the assistant have not been published. No injury is reported.","incidentDate":"2026-07-04","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-07-10","aiSystem":"ChatGPT, as named in TOPR's own report of 10 July 2026 ('porad czatu GPT'); the PAP relays (RMF24, Onet), TVN24's reporter ('one of the popular AI models') and LRT ('an AI chatbot') name no product, and Straight Arrow News (8 October 2026) also names ChatGPT, citing TOPR","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Two hikers were stranded in difficult, exposed climbing terrain below Niebieska Turnia and needed a TOPR helicopter evacuation; no injury is reported (TOPR duty rescuer's account via PAP; TVN24 reporter).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":2,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people: 'dwoje turystów z Litwy' (two tourists from Lithuania) who used the assistant's suggestions and were evacuated. Exact 2. Rescuers are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"PL","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.rmf24.pl/regiony/zakopane/news-dwoje-turystow-utknelo-w-tatrach-przewodniczka-byla-sztuczna,nIdn,1009565","primarySourceLabel":"RMF24, 10 July 2026: Two tourists got stuck in the Tatras. Their guide was artificial intelligence (TOPR account via PAP)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-10T03:26:24.433264+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:44:10.959665+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","openai","trip-planning","hiking","rescue","physical-safety","poland","lithuania","communicated-with"]}]}