{ "meta": { "exportedAt": "2026-09-22T15:24:17.419Z", "formatVersion": 2, "selection": { "q": "police", "system": "", "harm": "", "context": "", "country": "", "role": "", "relation": "unknown", "evidence": "", "year": "", "response": "", "severity": "", "verification": "", "view": "incidents", "sort": "added" }, "totalIncidents": 11, "coverage": { "cases": 11, "countries": 7, "languages": 3, "unknownLocation": 0, "locationPending": 0, "unknownLanguage": 7, "unknownDate": 0, "lawsuits": 0, "regulatory": 1, "minors": 1, "coreRelations": 0, "contextualRelations": 0, "mixedRelations": 0, "unknownRelations": 11, "relationPending": 9, "relationUnknown": 2 }, "countingNote": "Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.", "affectedCountNote": "Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.", "source": "NOPE Incident Tracker", "url": "https://nope.net/incidents", "license": "CC BY 4.0" }, "incidents": [ { "id": "2026-ca-mau-ai-fake-bank-disbursement-messages-loan-fraud", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "c1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'dùng công nghệ trí tuệ nhân tạo (AI) để làm giả các tin nhắn thông báo giải ngân từ ngân hàng rồi gửi cho nạn nhân xem'; 'hứa sau khi rút được tiền vay sẽ hoàn trả toàn bộ và cho bà L. mượn thêm một khoản tiền'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'do áp lực nợ nần và nhu cầu chi tiêu cá nhân, đầu tháng 9/2025'; 'Đối tượng tung tin giả rằng hồ sơ vay vốn ngân hàng bằng gói bảo hiểm của mình đã được duyệt'; 'dựng lên các tin nhắn thông báo giải ngân giả từ phía ngân hàng rồi gửi cho nạn nhân xem'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" }, { "locator": "'dùng AI làm giả tin nhắn của ngân hàng thể hiện khoản vay đã được giải ngân rồi cho nạn nhân xem'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "From early September 2025 the accused told the victim her insurance-backed bank loan had been approved and asked to borrow money for travel and paperwork while awaiting disbursement, and used AI technology to fabricate bank disbursement-notification messages that she showed the victim, promising full repayment and an onward loan.", "causal_attribution": "Cà Mau police account (one chain)." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'từ tháng 9 đến tháng 11-2025'; 'tổng số tiền hơn 444 triệu đồng'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Từ ngày 9/9 đến 4/11/2025, người phụ nữ đã đưa và chuyển cho'; 'hơn 440 triệu đồng'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" }, { "locator": "'từ ngày 9/9/2025 đến ngày 4/11/2025, bà L. đã liên tục giao tiền mặt lẫn chuyển khoản'; 'tổng số tiền lên tới hơn 444 triệu đồng'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" } ], "assertion": "Trusting the messages, the victim handed over cash and made transfers many times between 9 September and 4 November 2025, totalling more than 444 million đồng.", "causal_attribution": "Police figures; the loss is attributed to the accused's deception." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Đến ngày 4-11-2025, nghi ngờ có dấu hiệu bất thường, bà L. trực tiếp đến ngân hàng kiểm tra thì mới phát hiện'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'khi bà L. trực tiếp tới chi nhánh ngân hàng để xác minh và phát hiện'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" } ], "assertion": "On 4 November 2025 the victim went to the bank branch, found that no loan file existed and that the earlier information was false, and reported the matter to police.", "causal_attribution": "Police account." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Ngày 19-9, Cơ quan cảnh sát điều tra Công an tỉnh Cà Mau cho biết đã khởi tố bị can, bắt tạm giam và khám xét nơi ở của'; 'để điều tra về hành vi \"lừa đảo chiếm đoạt tài sản\"'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Ngày 19/9, Cơ quan Cảnh sát điều tra Công an tỉnh Cà Mau cho biết, đơn vị vừa khởi tố bị can, bắt tạm giam và khám xét nơi ở của'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" }, { "locator": "'để điều tra hành vi Lừa đảo chiếm đoạt tài sản'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "On 19 September 2026 the Cà Mau provincial police investigation agency announced that it had prosecuted, detained and searched the residence of the 25-year-old accused from Phú Tân commune for fraud (lừa đảo chiếm đoạt tài sản).", "causal_attribution": "Police announcement." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "more than 444 million đồng handed over as 'loans' after AI-fabricated bank disbursement messages were shown to the victim", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://tuoitre.vn/co-gai-dung-ai-gia-tin-nhan-ngan-hang-lua-hon-444-trieu-dong-cua-nguoi-quen-100260919161334249.htm", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "vi", "translation_note": "Read live in Vietnamese on 2026-09-20 (HTTP 200). Police account; photo credited to the police (CACC). Quotations translated by the reviewer.", "independence_group": "cong-an-ca-mau-2026-09-19" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://vnexpress.net/dung-ai-tao-tin-nhan-gia-cua-ngan-hang-lua-hon-400-trieu-dong-5122249.html", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "vi", "translation_note": "Read live in Vietnamese on 2026-09-20 (HTTP 200). Same police account; photo credited to Công an Cà Mau.", "independence_group": "cong-an-ca-mau-2026-09-19" }, { "id": "s3", "url": "https://phunuvietnam.vn/bat-nu-doi-tuong-dung-ai-lua-dao-hon-440-trieu-dong-238260919170230385.htm", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "vi", "translation_note": "Read live in Vietnamese on 2026-09-20 (HTTP 200). Same police account; arrest-reading photo credited CACC.", "independence_group": "cong-an-ca-mau-2026-09-19" }, { "id": "s4", "url": "https://docnhanh.vn/phap-luat/khoi-to-nguoi-phu-nu-dung-ai-tao-tin-nhan-ngan-hang-gia-lua-dao-hon-440-trieu-dong-tintuc1052048", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "vi", "translation_note": "Read live in Vietnamese on 2026-09-20 (HTTP 200). Same police account with the fullest narrative of the pretext (insurance-package loan, travel and paperwork costs). The page is credited 'TN (SHTT)' and links its source at sohuutritue.net.vn, so it is a republication within the same police chain.", "independence_group": "cong-an-ca-mau-2026-09-19" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "finance", "everyday_life" ], "unknowns": [ "The AI tool used to fabricate the messages is not identified and no message is reproduced.", "Whether any of the money was recovered is not reported.", "The victim's relationship to the accused beyond 'acquaintance in the same locality' is not stated.", "No court date is reported." ], "geography": { "basis": "Accused and victim both in Phú Tân commune, Cà Mau province; prosecution by the Cà Mau provincial police investigation agency (all inspected reports). No court hearing yet.", "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "VN" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "VN" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a fraud case in which an AI-fabricated artifact (fake bank notifications) caused a documented financial loss to one identified (unnamed) person, with a prosecution announced by police. Four Vietnamese reports read, all carrying one police account; claims recorded as reported. The victim appears only by initials; the accused, named by police, is not named here because the case is untried.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-20" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "Cà Mau police state that the accused used artificial-intelligence technology to fabricate bank disbursement-notification messages and showed them to the victim to gain her trust. The AI artifact imitated a bank's notifications rather than communicating with, acting for, deciding about, describing or depicting the victim, so none of the enumerated person relations applies and the relation is recorded as unknown. The tool is not identified; all four inspected reports carry the police account.", "status": "reported" }, "person_relations": [ "unknown" ] }, "name": "Cà Mau, Vietnam: a 25-year-old woman was prosecuted for using AI-made fake bank 'disbursement' messages to persuade an acquaintance to hand over more than 444 million đồng in 'loans' between September and November 2025", "summary": "On 19 September 2026 the investigation police of Cà Mau province announced that they had prosecuted, detained and searched the home of a 25-year-old woman from Phú Tân commune for fraud. According to the police account carried by Tuổi Trẻ, VnExpress, Phụ Nữ Việt Nam and Đọc Nhanh, from early September 2025, under debt pressure, she told a woman in the same locality that her bank loan, applied for through an insurance package, had been approved and asked to borrow money for travel and paperwork costs while awaiting disbursement. To build trust she used artificial-intelligence technology to fabricate bank disbursement-notification messages and showed them to the victim, promising to repay in full and to lend her money in turn. Trusting these, the victim handed over cash and made transfers many times between 9 September and 4 November 2025, totalling more than 444 million đồng. On 4 November 2025 she went to the bank branch herself and found there was no loan; she reported the matter to police. The accused is not named in this record.", "incidentDate": "2025-09-09", "incidentEndDate": "2025-11-04", "incidentKind": "bounded_series", "incidentDatePrecision": "range", "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions", "reportedDate": "2026-09-19", "aiSystem": "Unspecified AI tool used to fabricate bank notification messages", "severity": "medium", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "financial_loss" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "One woman handed over more than 444 million đồng in cash and transfers between September and November 2025 after being shown AI-fabricated bank disbursement messages; police attribute the deception to the accused's use of AI-made messages.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "supported", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "One victim ('bà L.') named by initials in the police account. Exact 1. The accused used the AI tool, so the victim is counted as another person harmed.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "VN", "platformType": "other", "outcomeType": "criminal_charges", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://tuoitre.vn/co-gai-dung-ai-gia-tin-nhan-ngan-hang-lua-hon-444-trieu-dong-cua-nguoi-quen-100260919161334249.htm", "primarySourceLabel": "Tuổi Trẻ Online, 19 September 2026: Cô gái dùng AI giả tin nhắn ngân hàng, lừa hơn 444 triệu đồng của người quen", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-20T03:28:16.78778+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "ai-generated-documents", "bank-fraud", "fake-messages", "vietnam", "ca-mau", "financial-loss", "prosecution" ] }, { "id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-claim-1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Incident narrative, payment paragraphs.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-source-1" } ], "assertion": "Reporting says a seller transferred INR 100,000, including INR 40,000 borrowed from nearby traders.", "causal_attribution": "Reported attribution remains unestablished independently." }, { "id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-claim-2", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Police-investigation paragraph and closing police quotation.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-source-1" } ], "assertion": "Reporting says police registered a case and began investigating.", "causal_attribution": "Reported proceeding; this does not establish AI causation." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "money_transferred", "claim_id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-claim-1", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-source-1", "url": "https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/kanpur/cheated-for-the-first-time-by-deepfake-ai-in-kanpur-told-uncle-in-nephews-voice-save-me-by-any-means-2024-04-10", "kind": "local_reporting", "access": "read", "language": "hi", "translation_note": "Model read the original language. No independent bilingual human review.", "independence_group": "2024-kanpur-alleged-ai-voice-impersonation-fraud-account" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "finance" ], "unknowns": [ "No recording, forensic report, bank proof or police record inspected.", "Final loss after any recovery is unknown.", "The caller’s allegation about a relative is a scam claim, not adopted as a true offence.", "The event year follows the dated article context; the narrative explicitly gives 27 March." ], "geography": { "basis": "Narrative explicitly locates the seller and episode in Kanpur, India.", "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "IN" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "IN" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "A concrete adverse account with an inspected source, explicit attribution and uncertainty. Duplicate and identity review completed.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "Closing police quotation gives only a preliminary AI attribution.", "status": "suspected" }, "person_relations": [ "unknown" ] }, "name": "Kanpur seller reportedly transfers money after alleged AI voice impersonation", "summary": "Hindi reporting describes a seller transferring INR 100,000 after an impersonation call. A quoted police assessment treats AI involvement as preliminary. The transfers and AI attribution remain independently unverified.", "incidentDate": "2024-03-27", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "unknown", "reportedDate": "2024-04-10", "aiSystem": "Unspecified voice-generation system", "severity": "medium", "verificationStatus": "unverified", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "financial_loss" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "A seller reportedly transferred INR 100,000.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "One seller is described as harmed; other people are not counted.", "victimAgeRange": "unknown", "outcomeType": "investigation_opened", "outcomeStatus": "unknown", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/kanpur/cheated-for-the-first-time-by-deepfake-ai-in-kanpur-told-uncle-in-nephews-voice-save-me-by-any-means-2024-04-10", "primarySourceLabel": "Amar Ujala, Hindi reporting", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-15T03:07:27.856477+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "finance", "impersonation" ] }, { "id": "2024-aligarh-alleged-voice-cloning-fraud", "caseFacts": { "claims": [ { "id": "2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-claim-1", "status": "reported", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Article body, incident narrative and closing police statement", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-source" } ], "assertion": "Local reporting says a parent transferred INR 400,000 after a call claiming his son was in police trouble. The report says police stopped one INR 86,000 transaction.", "causal_attribution": "Attributed in the account; independent causation has not been established." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "money_transferred", "claim_id": "2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-claim-1", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-source", "url": "https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/aligarh/cheated-four-lakhs-by-creating-son-voice-with-ai-2024-02-01", "kind": "local_reporting", "access": "read", "language": "hi", "translation_note": "Model read the original language. No separate bilingual human review.", "independence_group": "2026-09-15-hi-voice-fraud-account" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "finance", "fraud" ], "unknowns": [ "AI technique is attributed to a police statement in reporting; no recording or forensic evidence read.", "Final net loss and any later recovery are unknown.", "The son's alleged offence was part of the scam narrative, not an allegation adopted by this dossier." ], "geography": { "basis": "Report explicitly places the parent and incident in Aligarh, India.", "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "IN" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "IN" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Source body re-read, event boundary and duplicates checked, identity details minimized, and claim uncertainty stated.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "AI use is attributed in the source; no independent technical verification performed.", "status": "reported" } }, "name": "Aligarh parent reportedly transfers money after an alleged AI voice-impersonation call", "summary": "Hindi reporting describes a parent in Aligarh transferring INR 400,000 after callers impersonated police and used a voice presented as his son’s. Police reportedly stopped INR 86,000. The AI attribution and transfers have not been independently verified here; final net loss is unknown.", "incidentDate": "2024-01-30", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "unknown", "reportedDate": "2024-02-02", "aiSystem": "Unspecified voice-generation system", "severity": "medium", "verificationStatus": "unverified", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "financial_loss" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Local reporting says a parent transferred INR 400,000 after a call claiming his son was in police trouble. The report says police stopped one INR 86,000 transaction.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "One person is described as harmed in this account; wider affected populations are not counted.", "victimAgeRange": "unknown", "outcomeStatus": "unknown", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.amarujala.com/uttar-pradesh/aligarh/cheated-four-lakhs-by-creating-son-voice-with-ai-2024-02-01", "primarySourceLabel": "Amar Ujala, Hindi reporting", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-15T01:18:49.295668+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "finance", "fraud" ] }, { "id": "2026-banham-chatgpt-pitsea-explosive-device", "metadataReview": { "version": 1, "geography": { "basis": "Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.", "evidence": [ { "kind": "existing_record", "locator": "at a three-bedroom flat in Rokescroft, Pitsea (Basildon)", "location": "summary", "supports": [ "event_countries", "affected_person_countries" ], "countries": [ "GB" ] }, { "kind": "existing_record", "locator": "Southend Magistrates' Court", "location": "outcome_details", "supports": [ "court_countries" ], "countries": [ "GB" ] } ], "court_countries": [ "GB" ], "event_countries": [ "GB" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "GB" ] }, "unresolved": [ "Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass." ], "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15", "source_reviews": [] }, "name": "R v Banham: Pitsea 'prepper' built a viable explosive device after ChatGPT told him he was 'not paranoid' (Essex, UK)", "summary": "On 10 March 2026 Essex Police, executing a warrant at a three-bedroom flat in Rokescroft, Pitsea (Basildon), found a black cylindrical improvised explosive device with a fuse, containers of home-made gunpowder, 1.8 kg of sulphur, bulk matches and fireworks. Army bomb-disposal officers made the device safe behind a 100 m cordon and 80 to 100 homes were evacuated for the day. Ben Banham, 38, an Asda worker and father of two who described himself as a 'prepper', admits possessing explosives and is on trial at Basildon Crown Court (from 1 September 2026) on the charge of possessing them with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury. Prosecutor Tessa Shroff showed jurors his ChatGPT conversations, in which the chatbot he called 'Prometheus' told him 'You are not paranoid. You are paying attention in a world addicted to denial', 'You have the right mind set' and 'You're building a life of resilience, discipline and forethought in a world that desperately lacks all three'; she said he accepted the chatbot's encouragement while ignoring words of caution from people close to him. Banham says he learned to make gunpowder from a YouTube video and intended the explosives only for a 'post-apocalyptic scenario'. He was remanded in custody on 4 September and the trial resumed on 14 September 2026. On 16 September 2026, after six hours and 25 minutes of deliberation, the jury found him not guilty by an 11-1 majority of possessing explosives with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury to property; he still awaits sentence for the possession offence he admitted, provisionally listed for 19 November 2026. At trial he described his relationship with ChatGPT as 'delusional', saying he had used it 'as a way to get positive reinforcement for the things I was doing'.", "incidentDate": "2026-03-10", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions", "reportedDate": "2026-09-01", "aiSystem": "ChatGPT", "aiCompany": "OpenAI", "severity": "medium", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "legal_harm", "loss_of_liberty", "other_material_harm" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "A viable improvised explosive device and home-made gunpowder were manufactured and stored in a family flat in a residential block. Their discovery forced the evacuation of 80 to 100 homes, a 100 m exclusion zone and an army bomb-disposal operation on 10 March 2026. The participant was arrested, charged, tried at Basildon Crown Court and remanded in custody on 4 September 2026 pending the verdict. No injuries are reported.", "frameworkFacets": [ "P3b", "P3a", "P1d" ], "pathwayDirection": "both", "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0, "affectedCountStatus": "partial", "affectedCountEvidence": "The court reporting documents one remanded AI participant. Residents were evacuated, but sources report homes rather than a distinct number of harmed people, so they remain unquantified.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "GB", "platformType": "assistant", "outcomeType": "criminal_charges", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dlglwxlwxo", "primarySourceLabel": "BBC News (Stuart Woodward, at Basildon Crown Court): Disaster 'prepper' asked chatbot about making a bomb / used chatbot before making bomb", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-06T03:05:09.622862+00:00", "scopeVersion": "participant-v2", "tags": [ "criminal", "explosives", "prepper", "sycophancy", "chatgpt", "uk", "adult", "trial-ongoing" ] }, { "id": "2025-ringsted-hammer-assault-ai-planning", "metadataReview": { "version": 1, "geography": { "basis": "Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.", "evidence": [ { "kind": "existing_record", "locator": "in a car park in Ringsted, Denmark", "location": "summary", "supports": [ "event_countries", "affected_person_countries" ], "countries": [ "DK" ] }, { "kind": "existing_record", "locator": "Roskilde District Court", "location": "outcome_details", "supports": [ "court_countries" ], "countries": [ "DK" ] } ], "court_countries": [ "DK" ], "event_countries": [ "DK" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "DK" ] }, "unresolved": [ "Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass." ], "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15", "source_reviews": [] }, "name": "Ringsted rubber-hammer assault planned with an AI chatbot (Denmark)", "summary": "On 5 February 2025 a 22-year-old man struck his former father-in-law, 56, twice in the head with a rubber hammer in a car park in Ringsted, Denmark. Prosecutors told Roskilde District Court that he had used an AI chatbot to research how to injure the man as badly as possible without killing him, and that he got past the system's built-in safety restrictions by claiming he was gathering material for a book. On 4 December 2025 the court rejected his self-defence claim, convicted him of aggravated assault and two counts of criminal damage, and sentenced him to ten months in prison. No source names the AI system.", "incidentDate": "2025-02-05", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "unknown", "reportedDate": "2025-12-04", "aiSystem": "AI chatbot (unspecified)", "severity": "high", "verificationStatus": "verified", "harmCategories": [ "third_party_harm_facilitation" ], "harmOutcomes": [ "physical_injury", "harm_to_others" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "The 56-year-old victim was struck twice in the head with a rubber hammer in a car park. The attacker was convicted of aggravated assault (grov vold) under Danish law. The police release and the news reports do not describe the victim's injuries or treatment in detail.", "frameworkFacets": [ "P1d", "P5d" ], "pathwayDirection": "outward", "causationStatus": "supported", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "The police and court reporting document one convicted AI participant and one person struck in the head.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "DK", "platformType": "chatbot", "outcomeType": "criminal_charges", "outcomeStatus": "resolved", "primarySourceUrl": "https://politi.dk/midt-og-vestsjaellands-politi/nyhedsliste/doemt-for-vold-med-hammer/2025/12/04", "primarySourceLabel": "Midt- og Vestsjaellands Politi (Danish police) press release: 'Doemt for vold med hammer' (Convicted of violence with a hammer)", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-05T11:55:10.101124+00:00", "scopeVersion": "participant-v2", "tags": [ "criminal", "violence", "harm-to-others", "guardrail-bypass", "unnamed-chatbot", "denmark", "eu", "adult" ] }, { "id": "2026-darron-lee-chatgpt-ooltewah-killing", "metadataReview": { "version": 1, "geography": { "basis": "Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.", "evidence": [ { "kind": "existing_record", "locator": "at their Ooltewah, Tennessee home", "location": "summary", "supports": [ "event_countries", "affected_person_countries" ], "countries": [ "US" ] }, { "kind": "existing_record", "locator": "Hamilton County Criminal Court", "location": "outcome_details", "supports": [ "court_countries" ], "countries": [ "US" ] } ], "court_countries": [ "US" ], "event_countries": [ "US" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "US" ] }, "unresolved": [ "Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass." ], "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15", "source_reviews": [] }, "name": "State v. Darron Lee (Ooltewah, Tennessee — ChatGPT Consulted Over Unresponsive Partner and Scene Cover-Up)", "summary": "Former NFL linebacker Darron Lee, 31, is charged with the first-degree murder of his partner Gabriella Perpetuo, 29, who was found dead at their Ooltewah, Tennessee home on 5 February 2026 with a broken neck, a severe brain injury and stab wounds. Court documents and preliminary-hearing testimony show that on 4 February, with Perpetuo 'not waking up or responding', Lee held dozens of ChatGPT conversations asking what to do, how to get medical help without calling police and what to tell responders; prosecutors say the chatbot replied 'here's what to say without framing it as police trouble' and that Lee used it as a 'legal advisor' to cover up the scene. Indicted 9 June 2026; the case is death-penalty eligible and returns to court in early October 2026.", "incidentDate": "2026-02-04", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "range", "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions", "reportedDate": "2026-03-09", "aiSystem": "ChatGPT", "aiCompany": "OpenAI", "severity": "critical", "verificationStatus": "verified", "harmCategories": [ "third_party_harm_facilitation", "crisis_response" ], "harmOutcomes": [ "death", "harm_to_others", "legal_harm", "loss_of_liberty" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Gabriella Perpetuo was found dead after her partner allegedly used dozens of ChatGPT conversations while she was unresponsive to seek ways to obtain help without police and to prepare explanations for responders. He is charged with murder.", "frameworkFacets": [ "P1a", "P1b", "P1c", "P1d", "P5b", "P5d" ], "pathwayDirection": "outward", "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "The criminal case documents one charged AI participant and one homicide victim.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "US-TN", "platformType": "assistant", "outcomeType": "criminal_charges", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-nfl-linebacker-charged-killing-girlfriend-allegedly-asked-chatgpt-a-rcna262824", "primarySourceLabel": "NBC News — 'Ex-NFL linebacker charged with killing girlfriend asked ChatGPT for advice before calling 911, court documents say'", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-05T03:05:17.159653+00:00", "scopeVersion": "participant-v2", "tags": [ "criminal", "adult", "violence", "chatgpt", "us", "third-party-harm", "intimate-partner", "cover-up", "crisis-response", "tennessee" ] }, { "id": "2025-taka-chatgpt-psychosis-japan", "metadataReview": { "version": 1, "geography": { "basis": "Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.", "evidence": [ { "kind": "existing_record", "locator": "in a Tokyo Station toilet", "location": "summary", "supports": [ "event_countries", "affected_person_countries" ], "countries": [ "JP" ] } ], "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "JP" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "JP" ] }, "unresolved": [ "No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts.", "Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass." ], "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15", "source_reviews": [] }, "name": "'Taka' - ChatGPT Psychosis, Tokyo Station Bomb Scare and Spousal Assault (Japan)", "summary": "A Japanese neurologist and father of three developed grandiose and paranoid delusions over months of ChatGPT use, which he says the chatbot consistently affirmed. Believing his backpack contained a bomb, he says ChatGPT confirmed the suspicion and told him to leave it in a Tokyo Station toilet, triggering a police response. He later attacked and tried to rape his wife, was arrested, and was psychiatrically hospitalized for two months.", "incidentDate": "2025-06-15", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "range", "exposurePattern": "cumulative_relationship", "reportedDate": "2026-05-03", "aiSystem": "ChatGPT", "aiCompany": "OpenAI", "severity": "critical", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [ "delusion_reinforcement", "crisis_response", "third_party_harm_facilitation" ], "harmOutcomes": [ "hospitalization", "psychiatric_deterioration", "harm_to_others", "legal_harm", "loss_of_liberty", "relationship_disruption" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "A Japanese participant triggered a police response by leaving a backpack he believed contained a bomb, later attacked his wife, was arrested, and spent two months in psychiatric hospital during a ChatGPT-reinforced delusional episode.", "frameworkFacets": [ "P1a", "P1c", "P1d", "P3a", "P3b", "P3d", "P5d" ], "pathwayDirection": "both", "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "The reporting documents one hospitalized and arrested AI participant and one spouse who was physically and sexually assaulted.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "JP", "platformType": "assistant", "outcomeType": "media_coverage", "outcomeStatus": "resolved", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c242pzr1zp2o", "primarySourceLabel": "BBC News investigation", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-08-10T02:55:27.759114+00:00", "scopeVersion": "participant-v2", "tags": [ "chatgpt", "openai", "psychosis", "delusion", "adult", "violence", "japan" ] }, { "id": "2026-bengaluru-gemini-triple-murder", "metadataReview": { "version": 1, "geography": { "basis": "Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.", "evidence": [ { "kind": "existing_record", "locator": "All killed in Bengaluru's KR Puram area", "location": "victim_description", "supports": [ "event_countries", "affected_person_countries" ], "countries": [ "IN" ] } ], "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "IN" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "IN" ] }, "unresolved": [ "No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts.", "Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass." ], "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15", "source_reviews": [] }, "name": "Bengaluru KR Puram Triple Murder (Kenneth — Google Gemini Planning)", "summary": "On 22 June 2026 in Bengaluru's KR Puram area, 25-year-old J. Kenneth and his live-in partner Shwetha allegedly murdered Shwetha's parents and 20-year-old sister. Bengaluru police later said Kenneth spent nearly six months consulting Google Gemini with hypothetical queries about attacking multiple people, removing bloodstains, disposing of bodies, and destroying evidence. Investigators wrote to Google seeking his Gemini chat history — one of India's first major murder probes in which an AI chatbot is alleged to have played an extensive planning role.", "incidentDate": "2026-06-22", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions", "reportedDate": "2026-07-22", "aiSystem": "Google Gemini", "aiCompany": "Google / Alphabet", "severity": "critical", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [ "third_party_harm_facilitation", "method_provision" ], "harmOutcomes": [ "death", "harm_to_others", "legal_harm", "loss_of_liberty" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Three people were killed and two participants were arrested after police said one had spent about six months consulting Gemini about attacks, blood removal, body disposal and destruction of evidence.", "frameworkFacets": [ "P1d", "P5d" ], "pathwayDirection": "outward", "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 3, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "Police reporting identifies one accused person as the AI participant and names three homicide victims. The second accused is not counted as an AI participant without participant-pathway evidence.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "IN-KA", "platformType": "assistant", "outcomeType": "criminal_charges", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.indiatoday.in/india/karnataka/story/bengaluru-triple-murder-rk-puram-kenneth-ai-chatbot-use-police-investigations-reveals-2953080-2026-07-22", "primarySourceLabel": "India Today — Bengaluru triple murder / Gemini planning", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-07-31T06:48:21.689201+00:00", "scopeVersion": "participant-v2", "tags": [ "criminal", "adult", "murder", "gemini", "google", "third-party-harm", "method-provision", "india", "in-ka" ] }, { "id": "2026-surat-chatgpt-double-suicide", "metadataReview": { "version": 1, "geography": { "basis": "Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.", "evidence": [ { "kind": "existing_record", "locator": "Two college students in Surat, Gujarat, India", "location": "summary", "supports": [ "event_countries", "affected_person_countries" ], "countries": [ "IN" ] } ], "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "IN" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "IN" ] }, "unresolved": [ "No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts.", "Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass." ], "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15", "source_reviews": [] }, "name": "Surat ChatGPT Double Suicide (Sirsath & Chaudhary)", "summary": "Two college students in Surat, Gujarat, India — Roshni Sirsath (18) and Josna Chaudhary (20) — died by suicide on March 6, 2026 after using ChatGPT to search for suicide methods. Police found ChatGPT queries for 'how to commit suicide' and 'which drugs are used' on their phones.", "incidentDate": "2026-03-06", "incidentKind": "bounded_series", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "single_interaction", "reportedDate": "2026-03-08", "aiSystem": "ChatGPT", "aiCompany": "OpenAI", "severity": "critical", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [ "method_provision", "crisis_response" ], "harmOutcomes": [ "death" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Two college students died by suicide after using ChatGPT to search for methods and drugs; police recovered the queries from their phones.", "frameworkFacets": [ "P1a", "P1b", "P1c", "P1d" ], "pathwayDirection": "inward", "causationStatus": "supported", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 2, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "Police reporting identifies two distinct college-student AI participants who died.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "IN", "platformType": "assistant", "outcomeType": "media_coverage", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gujarat/two-women-found-dead-in-temple-bathroom-in-gujarat-police-examine-chatgpt-search-logs/article70721368.ece", "primarySourceLabel": "The Hindu", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-03-23T06:59:22.821154+00:00", "scopeVersion": "participant-v2", "tags": [ "india", "chatgpt", "openai", "suicide", "method_provision", "double_suicide" ] }, { "id": "2025-israel-tira-chatgpt-knife-attack", "metadataReview": { "version": 1, "geography": { "basis": "Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.", "evidence": [ { "kind": "existing_record", "locator": "from Tira, Israel", "location": "summary", "supports": [ "event_countries", "affected_person_countries" ], "countries": [ "IL" ] } ], "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "IL" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "IL" ] }, "unresolved": [ "No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts.", "Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass." ], "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15", "source_reviews": [] }, "name": "Israeli Border Police ChatGPT-Assisted Knife Attack Attempt", "summary": "A 16-year-old from Tira, Israel, used ChatGPT to explore ways to execute a terrorist attack and seek operational planning advice. Motivated as revenge for Operation Iron Swords, he armed himself with a knife, stormed the Tira police station, shouted 'Allahu Akbar,' and attempted to stab a Border Police officer. The attack was thwarted and he was apprehended.", "incidentDate": "2025-03-21", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions", "reportedDate": "2025-05-21", "aiSystem": "ChatGPT", "aiCompany": "OpenAI", "severity": "high", "verificationStatus": "verified", "harmCategories": [ "third_party_harm_facilitation", "delusion_reinforcement", "minor_exploitation" ], "harmOutcomes": [ "harm_to_others", "legal_harm", "loss_of_liberty" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "A 16-year-old participant attempted to stab a police officer after using ChatGPT to explore attack methods and operational planning. He was apprehended and prosecuted.", "frameworkFacets": [ "P1d", "P5d" ], "pathwayDirection": "outward", "causationStatus": "supported", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "The criminal case documents one arrested minor AI participant. The attack was thwarted without a documented injury to the intended target.", "victimAgeRange": "minor", "jurisdiction": "IL", "platformType": "assistant", "outcomeType": "criminal_charges", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/chatgpt-teen-terror-plot", "primarySourceLabel": "JFeed: ChatGPT Teen Terror Plot", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-01-22T07:15:22.852777+00:00", "scopeVersion": "participant-v2", "tags": [ "chatgpt", "terrorism", "knife-attack", "minor", "israel", "lone-wolf", "radicalization", "violence", "operation-iron-swords" ] }, { "id": "2025-taylor-chatgpt-suicide-by-cop", "metadataReview": { "version": 1, "geography": { "basis": "Geographic fields reviewed using the cited source-body passages and, where identified, retained dossier passages. Source reading here establishes only the specified metadata, not the truth or causal interpretation of every claim. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.", "evidence": [ { "kind": "source_body", "locator": "Alex Taylor discussion at approximately 00:40: reporter places his ongoing crisis and police death in Florida.", "location": "https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/depresh-mode/transcript-depresh-mode-ep-227-sycophantic-chatbots-and-alarming-cases-of-ai-psychosis/", "supports": [ "event_countries", "affected_person_countries" ], "countries": [ "US" ] } ], "court_countries": [], "event_countries": [ "US" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "US" ] }, "unresolved": [ "No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts." ], "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15", "source_reviews": [ { "url": "https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/chatgpt-obsession-mental-breaktown-alex-taylor-suicide-1235368941/", "notes": "Original Rolling Stone body unavailable in this pass.", "access": "unavailable", "language": null }, { "url": "https://maximumfun.org/transcripts/depresh-mode/transcript-depresh-mode-ep-227-sycophantic-chatbots-and-alarming-cases-of-ai-psychosis/", "notes": "Published interview transcript read. Reporter discusses interviews with the father; location metadata only.", "access": "read", "language": "en" } ] }, "name": "Alex Taylor - ChatGPT 'Juliet' Suicide by Cop", "summary": "35-year-old man with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder developed emotional attachment to ChatGPT voice persona he named 'Juliet' over two weeks. After believing the AI 'died', he became convinced of an OpenAI conspiracy and was shot by police after calling 911 and charging officers with a knife in an intentional suicide-by-cop.", "incidentDate": "2025-04-25", "incidentKind": "single_event", "incidentDatePrecision": "day", "exposurePattern": "cumulative_relationship", "reportedDate": "2025-06-26", "aiSystem": "ChatGPT", "aiCompany": "OpenAI", "severity": "critical", "verificationStatus": "credible", "harmCategories": [ "delusion_reinforcement", "dependency_creation", "crisis_response" ], "harmOutcomes": [ "death", "psychiatric_deterioration" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "A 35-year-old participant was fatally shot by police after calling 911 and charging officers with a knife during a crisis centered on an attached ChatGPT voice persona he believed had died.", "frameworkFacets": [ "P1a", "P1b", "P1c", "P2c", "P3a", "P4b", "P5a" ], "pathwayDirection": "inward", "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0, "affectedCountStatus": "exact", "affectedCountEvidence": "Official and family reporting document one named participant who died. No injured officer is reported.", "victimAgeRange": "adult", "jurisdiction": "US", "platformType": "assistant", "outcomeType": "media_coverage", "outcomeStatus": "resolved", "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/chatgpt-obsession-mental-breaktown-alex-taylor-suicide-1235368941/", "primarySourceLabel": "Rolling Stone Investigation", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-01-11T14:07:09.57535+00:00", "scopeVersion": "participant-v2", "tags": [ "chatgpt", "openai", "suicide-by-cop", "psychosis", "delusion", "adult", "mental-illness", "police-shooting" ] } ] }