{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T08:14:55.233Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"poisoning","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":4,"coverage":{"cases":4,"countries":3,"languages":4,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"minors":2,"coreRelations":4,"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-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-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-bahawalpur-teen-claude-methanol-father-nccia-arrest","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has arrested a 17-year-old student in Bahawalpur for allegedly attempting to poison his father after seeking advice from an AI, the agency said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) arrested a 17-year-old college student in Bahawalpur, Punjab, for allegedly attempting to poison his father, the arrest being announced on 23 September 2026.","causal_attribution":"Agency account of the arrest. The suspect has not been convicted; the allegations are untested."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The teenager allegedly poisoned his father once, but the attempt had no effect.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The FIR said digital evidence shared with Pakistani authorities indicated that the user had allegedly made an initial attempt to poison his father by mixing laboratory-grade methanol into his food.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to the NCCIA and the First Information Report, the teenager had earlier administered a home-made substance to his father once, described in the FIR as laboratory-grade methanol mixed into his food, and the attempt had no effect.","causal_attribution":"The alleged poisoning attempt preceded the reported chatbot consultation; no AI role in the first attempt is reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'When the attempt failed, he consulted Claude’s chatbot on September 12, telling it his father had “accidentally” ingested 15–20ml of methanol mixed with food but that nothing happened, and asked the chatbot to explain why.'; 'When Claude refused to guide him further, the boy wrote:'; 'He reportedly then consulted Grok (xAI) and ChatGPT (OpenAI) as well.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'After the attempt failed, he allegedly sought further information from the AI about abrin, a toxic substance derived from rosary peas.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"After the attempt failed, the teenager consulted Anthropic's Claude chatbot; according to The News, on 12 September 2026 he told it his father had 'accidentally' ingested 15 to 20 ml of methanol mixed with food without effect and asked why, Claude refused to guide him further, and he then reportedly turned to Grok and ChatGPT. The FIR, as reported, says he sought information from the AI about abrin.","causal_attribution":"Investigators' account of the chat content. No transcript was published and no chatbot reply beyond the refusal is reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Activities of both were reported by Anthropic to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which subsequently conveyed the information to Pakistani authorities.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'According to the First Information Report (FIR) registered in the case, the FBI information was conveyed to the NCCIA by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs through an official communication on September 22.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Anthropic reported the activity to the FBI, whose information reached the NCCIA through Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 22 September 2026, and the NCCIA traced and arrested the teenager on that basis.","causal_attribution":"The provider's report of the chats led to the referral and arrest, as reported. No public confirmation by Anthropic, the FBI or the foreign ministry is reported in the read sources."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A court has since granted him bail after his father forgave him, even if he had been planning something sinister.'; 'he also refused to admit to any planning'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"A court later granted the teenager bail after his father forgave him; the teenager did not admit to any planning.","causal_attribution":"Single-outlet report of the procedural outcome, attributed to the investigating agency context."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'He later sought further guidance from an AI chatbot, asking how to administer a poison that would kill his father without anyone finding out, according to the NCCIA.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'had asked various AI chatbots for information on how to produce methanol'; 'the suspect turned to AI and asked what reaction methanol would cause in the human body if ingested, and what effects it would have on the liver'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"NCCIA accounts of what the teenager asked the AI differ: the agency's 23 September statement said he asked how to administer a poison that would kill his father undetected; the agency statement reported by The Media Line said he asked various chatbots how to produce methanol; and the NCCIA director said he asked what reaction methanol would cause in the human body and its effects on the liver. No read source reports any chatbot supplying such guidance.","causal_attribution":"Agency descriptions of the queries; replies are reported only for Claude (a refusal, per The News)."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'His aim was to experiment with producing biodiesel from methanol by using sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide in the process.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'His father supported him throughout.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The NCCIA director said the teenager had an interest in chemistry and aimed to experiment with producing biodiesel from methanol, and The News reports that his father supported him throughout.","causal_attribution":"Contrary context: an innocent explanation for the chemicals given by the investigating director, and the father's support for his son."}],"effects":[{"label":"father reportedly fed methanol in his food by his son, with no reported effect","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"17-year-old arrested and detained after an AI provider's report reached Pakistani investigators; later bailed","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1417323-pakistani-breaking-bad-fan-arrested-for-trying-to-poison-father-with-ai-help","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-29 (published 23 September 2026). Relays the NCCIA spokesperson statement.","independence_group":"nccia-investigation"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://themedialine.org/headlines/fbi-tip-leads-to-arrest-of-pakistani-teen-in-ai-poison-plot/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-29 (26 September 2026). Reports the First Information Report and the NCCIA statement; the FIR itself was not inspected. The Jerusalem Post republished the same Media Line text (27 September 2026).","independence_group":"nccia-investigation"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.thenews.pk/print/1440108-chatbot-that-called-fbi-inside-two-ai-linked-murder-plots-in-pakistan","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-29 (print edition dated 29 September 2026; online from 28 September 19:00 UTC). Attributes its details to NCCIA investigators and officials; treated as the same investigative chain as the agency statement.","independence_group":"nccia-investigation"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["relationships","justice"],"unknowns":["The date of the methanol attempt, and whether the father needed medical attention.","The full content of the chats and any replies from Grok or ChatGPT.","The charges framed and the date and court of the bail order.","Independent confirmation of the referral by Anthropic, the FBI or Pakistan's foreign ministry.","Whether the father's ingestion is established by evidence other than the teenager's own chat statements flagged to the FBI; the 15 to 20 ml quantity is the teenager's figure."],"geography":{"basis":"The arrest took place in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan, where the family lives and where a court granted bail (The News).","court_countries":["PK"],"event_countries":["PK"],"affected_person_countries":["PK"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case (the teenager communicated with Claude about a poisoning his father had survived, and the provider's report led to his arrest). All read accounts derive from the NCCIA investigation (agency statement, FIR and investigators); the allegations are untested. The suspect is a minor and is not named. No injury to the father is reported.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The NCCIA's FIR, as reported by The Media Line, says FBI information described a Claude user researching lethal toxic substances; The News reports investigators' account that the teenager consulted Claude on 12 September after the methanol attempt, that Claude refused further guidance, and that Anthropic reported the activity to the FBI. The first poisoning attempt preceded the reported chatbot use. Agency accounts of the queries differ (c6); no read source reports that any chatbot provided poisoning guidance.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Bahawalpur, Pakistan: a 17-year-old accused of putting methanol in his father's food is arrested after Anthropic reported his Claude chats about the failed poisoning to the FBI, which alerted Pakistan's cybercrime agency; he was later bailed","summary":"Pakistan's National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) announced on 23 September 2026 that it had arrested a 17-year-old college student in Bahawalpur for allegedly attempting to poison his father. According to the agency and the First Information Report, the teenager had set up a home laboratory, obtained chemicals from Australia and Islamabad, and once mixed laboratory-grade methanol into his father's food, without effect. The News reports investigators' account that on 12 September he told Anthropic's Claude that his father had 'accidentally' ingested 15 to 20 ml of methanol with food without effect and asked why, that Claude refused to guide him further, and that he then turned to Grok and ChatGPT; the FIR says he sought information about the toxin abrin. Anthropic reported the activity to the FBI, whose information reached the NCCIA through Pakistan's foreign ministry on 22 September. Officers traced the teenager, seized his phone and chemicals, and took him into custody. The News reports that a court later granted him bail after his father forgave him and that he denied any plan. The allegations are untested.","incidentDate":"2026-09-12","incidentEndDate":"2026-09-23","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-23","aiSystem":"Claude (Anthropic), consulted by the teenager and whose provider reported the activity, per the FIR as reported by The Media Line and investigators via The News; The News also reports later use of Grok (xAI) and ChatGPT (OpenAI)","aiProduct":"Claude (reported)","aiCompany":"Anthropic","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 17-year-old was arrested and detained on an allegation of trying to poison his father with methanol, after his chatbot queries about the failed attempt were reported by the AI provider to the FBI and passed to Pakistani investigators; he was later bailed (NCCIA via The News and The Media Line).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One AI participant, the 17-year-old who was arrested and detained (NCCIA via The News and The Media Line). The father ingested methanol with no reported effect and is not counted as harmed. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"PK","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://themedialine.org/headlines/fbi-tip-leads-to-arrest-of-pakistani-teen-in-ai-poison-plot/","primarySourceLabel":"The Media Line, 26 September 2026: FBI Tip Leads to Arrest of Pakistani Teen in AI Poison Plot","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T03:22:04.379946+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:25.345905+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatbot","claude","anthropic","provider-report","law-enforcement-referral","poisoning","methanol","minor","pakistan","nccia","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-russia-chatgpt-phishing-crypto-theft","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'ChatGPT... выдала ссылку на страницу, которая оказалась сайтом мошенников'; '1 904 513 FXRP — примерно $2,1 млн'; 'unlimited approval'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'12 июня 2026 года... обменять токены sFLR на WFLR. Он посоветовался с ChatGPT'; 'ссылка на sceptre.network — точную копию легитимного сервиса sceptre.fi'; '1 904 513 FXRP — примерно $2,1 млн'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Криптоинвестор потерял около 180 миллионов рублей после перехода по фишинговой ссылке, которую посоветовал ChatGPT'; 'похитили около 2,1 миллиона долларов'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 12 June 2026 a Russian-speaking investor asked ChatGPT in Russian where to swap sFLR for WFLR; ChatGPT returned a link to sceptre.network, a phishing clone of sceptre.fi; he connected his wallet, signed an unlimited-approval transaction, and about 1.9 million FXRP (~$2.1 million) were drained.","causal_attribution":"The on-chain analysis (VAL, carried by s1/s2/s4) and the MVD confirmation (s3) are independent chains for the loss and the ChatGPT-link mechanism."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'фишинговая ссылка появлялась только в ответах на русском языке. При аналогичных запросах на других языках ChatGPT её не выдавал. Мошенники целенаправленно \"отравляли\" данные для русскоязычных пользователей.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Сейчас фишинговая ссылка больше не появляется в ChatGPT'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The phishing link appeared only in ChatGPT's Russian-language answers, indicating deliberate data-poisoning targeting Russian-speaking users; the link no longer appears.","causal_attribution":"Reported by the blockchain analyst (VAL) and carried by the Russian tech press; not independently verified by the MVD."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'сообщили РАПСИ в пресс-службе Управления по организации борьбы с противоправным использованием информационно-коммуникационных технологий МВД РФ'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Russia's Interior Ministry (MVD) confirmed the loss of about 180 million rubles ($2.1 million).","causal_attribution":"Attributed to the MVD press service via RAPSI."}],"effects":[{"label":"crypto investor lost about $2.1 million after acting on a phishing link ChatGPT returned to a Russian-language query","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://bits.media/kriptopoinvestor-lishilsya-2-1-mln-iz-za-ssylki-v-otvete-chatgpt/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ru","translation_note":"Read in Russian on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2026-09-04). Relays blockchain analyst VAL's on-chain investigation: sFLR/WFLR query, sceptre.network phishing clone, 1.9M FXRP (~$2.1M) drained via unlimited approval, Tornado Cash routing. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"val-report"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://vc.ru/ai/3122620-kak-ii-obmanul-kriptovinvestora-na-milliony-dollarov","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ru","translation_note":"Read in Russian on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2026-09-05). Names the 12 June 2026 date, alias Alex, the unlimited-approval signing, and that the phishing link appeared only in Russian-language answers. Derives from VAL's report. Model reading.","independence_group":"val-report"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://rapsinews.ru/digital_law_news/20260911/312188548.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ru","translation_note":"Read in Russian on 2026-09-17 (RAPSI, 11 Sep 2026). Attributes the confirmation to the press service of the MVD's unit for combating unlawful use of ICT: ~180 million rubles / ~$2.1M lost after a ChatGPT-provided phishing link. Independent official confirmation. Model reading.","independence_group":"mvd"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://hi-tech.mail.ru/news/154924-chatgpt-podsunul-fishingovuyu-ssylku-kriptoinvestor/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ru","translation_note":"Read in Russian on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2026-09-07). Russian tech-press account derived from VAL's report. Model reading.","independence_group":"val-report"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["finance"],"unknowns":["The investor's full identity and exact location within Russia are not established; only the alias Alex/@vesnuhin is public.","No arrests or defendants are identified.","Whether OpenAI has acknowledged or acted on the reported Russian-language data-poisoning is not established in the inspected sources."],"geography":{"basis":"The investor is Russian-speaking and the case was confirmed by Russia's Interior Ministry (RAPSI). Event and affected-person country recorded as Russia on that basis. No court proceeding established.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["RU"],"affected_person_countries":["RU"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter, which includes fraud and security consequences in scope. A crypto investor acted on a phishing link ChatGPT returned to his Russian-language query and lost about $2.1 million; the loss is confirmed independently by Russia's Interior Ministry and traced on-chain by a blockchain analyst. Causation of the AI's role (surfacing the phishing link) is supported; the theft was executed by scam operators.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-17"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Multiple technology outlets and a blockchain analyst report that the phishing link appeared in ChatGPT's answer to the investor's Russian-language question, and Russia's Interior Ministry confirmed to RAPSI that the loss followed a phishing link ChatGPT provided. The theft itself was executed by the scam operators; ChatGPT's role was surfacing the phishing link, reportedly only in Russian-language responses.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Russia: a crypto investor lost about $2.1 million after ChatGPT returned a phishing link in answer to a token-swap question","summary":"On 12 June 2026 a Russian-speaking crypto investor, known by the alias Alex (@vesnuhin), asked ChatGPT in Russian where to swap sFLR for WFLR tokens. ChatGPT's reply included a link to sceptre.network, a phishing clone of the legitimate sceptre.fi. He connected his wallet and signed an unlimited-approval transaction; within seconds about 1.9 million FXRP, worth roughly $2.1 million (about 180 million rubles), were drained. A blockchain analyst traced the theft, and reported that the phishing link appeared only in Russian-language answers. Russia's Interior Ministry (MVD) later confirmed the loss.","incidentDate":"2026-06-12","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-09-04","aiSystem":"ChatGPT (OpenAI)","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A crypto investor lost about $2.1 million (some 180 million rubles) after connecting his wallet to a phishing site whose link ChatGPT had returned in answer to a Russian-language token-swap question; Russia's Interior Ministry confirmed the loss.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One affected person: the investor who acted on the ChatGPT-provided link and lost about $2.1 million. VAL's report that a related scheme netted more than $2.2 million from other users is not used as a person count.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"RU","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://bits.media/kriptopoinvestor-lishilsya-2-1-mln-iz-za-ssylki-v-otvete-chatgpt/","primarySourceLabel":"bits.media, 4 September 2026: crypto investor lost ~$2.1M after a phishing link in a ChatGPT answer (blockchain analyst VAL on-chain analysis)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-17T03:27:42.903846+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:51.152539+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","openai","phishing","crypto","financial-loss","data-poisoning","russia","communicated-with"]}]}