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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-web-developer-says-job-was-cut-because-ai-could-do-it-and-boss-said-i-can-just-prompt-the-ai-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'1 month ago I got the news that I will be fired due to AI being able to do my job'; 'so today is my last day and my last paycheck'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says that a month before the post they were told they would be fired because AI was able to do their job as a full-stack web developer with ten years' experience, and that the day of the post was their last day.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account of the employer's stated reason; no employer statement was retrieved."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'litreal words of my boss \"I can just prompt the AI and it seems to be doing what I need\"'; 'I've been watching the github repo being flooded with AI commits and comments'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In a reply the poster quotes the boss as saying 'I can just prompt the AI and it seems to be doing what I need' and says the company's GitHub repository was being flooded with AI commits and comments.","causal_attribution":"Poster's report of the boss's words and of what they observed; uncorroborated."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I did use AI heavily at my job'; 'I did not get replaced because I did not use AI'; 'i got replace because the comapny wanted to save up money'; 'I've been in that company for 5 years'; '(I was employed in Bulgaria)'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they used AI heavily in the job, were not replaced for refusing AI, that the company wanted to save money, that they had been with the company five years, and that notice under their Bulgarian employment was one month.","causal_attribution":"Poster's own account, including a cost-saving motive alongside the AI reason."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I've been applying for Developer jobs for the last 30 days'; 'I definitely want to move away from coding'; 'Now I am in no financial trouble'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they have applied for developer jobs for 30 days without a workable offer, want to move away from coding, and are in no financial trouble.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account of their situation after the dismissal."}],"effects":[{"label":"web developer let go after the employer decided AI could do the job (poster's account)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/Netherlands/comments/1xinp0x/lost_my_job_due_to_ai_stuck_in_an_odd_place_and/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-30 through the arctic_shift archive API: the post by ID and 46 replies by the poster (latest 22:07 UTC on 29 October 2026), saved without the handle as bodies/wk-nl-1xinp0x.txt. The live thread was read through Reddit's comment RSS feed at about 03:03 UTC on 30 October (350 entries, 47 by the poster including the post); the live post matches the archived copy. The poster's handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-netherlands-web-developer-ai-job-cut-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["The employer's identity, location and own account of the reason.","Which AI tools the employer uses for development.","Whether other staff were let go and what severance the poster received."],"geography":{"basis":"The poster says they moved to the Netherlands three months before the post and were employed in Bulgaria, working remotely; where the employer is established and where the decision was made are not stated, so the event country is left unknown.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["NL"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a first-person consequential-response account: a web developer says the employer cut their job because AI could do it, quoting the boss's words, with the poster's own qualifications (heavy AI use, cost-saving motive, no financial trouble) recorded. The post and the poster's replies were read; the account is uncorroborated.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster says they were told they would be fired because AI was able to do their job, and quotes the boss as saying they could just prompt the AI and it seemed to do what was needed; the poster also says the repository filled with AI commits. This is a reported institutional response to a decision to adopt AI: the poster's account is the only evidence, no AI output or action toward the poster is described, and the poster adds that the company wanted to save money.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Web developer says employer cut their job because AI could do it, quoting the boss: 'I can just prompt the AI' (first-person account)","summary":"In a public post to r/Netherlands created on 29 October 2026, a full-stack web developer with ten years' experience writes that a month earlier they were told they would be fired because AI was able to do their job, and that the day of the post was their last day and last paycheck. In replies the poster quotes the boss as saying 'I can just prompt the AI and it seems to be doing what I need', says they had been at the company five years, worked on one month's notice under a Bulgarian employment, and had watched the company's code repository fill with AI commits. The poster also writes that they used AI heavily in the job and that the company wanted to save money. They say they have applied for developer jobs for 30 days without a workable offer and are thinking of leaving coding; they also say they are in no financial trouble. The account is uncorroborated and the employer is not named.","incidentDate":"2026-10-29","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-29","aiSystem":"Unnamed AI coding tools that, by the poster's account, the employer's boss prompts to do the development work; no product is named","aiProduct":"Unidentified coding tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The poster says they lost their web-developer job after the employer decided AI could do it, the boss saying they could just prompt the AI, and that they have not found a workable developer job after 30 days of applications (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the poster, who says their own job was cut. The poster is not counted as a direct AI user, because the harm is the employer's decision. No colleagues are described as affected.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/Netherlands/comments/1xinp0x/lost_my_job_due_to_ai_stuck_in_an_odd_place_and/","primarySourceLabel":"r/Netherlands, 29 October 2026: \"Lost my job due to AI, stuck in an odd place and I'm confused\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-30T03:06:51.910288+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-30T03:13:25.956292+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","reddit","employment","layoff","workplace-ai","institutional-use","consequential-response"]},{"id":"2026-systems-administrator-says-small-firm-terminated-them-and-lead-developer-replacing-both-with-anthropic-ai-subscription-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Just got terminated today. Both myself(server admin and network administrator) and the lead developer.'; 'Then followed up with a call from the CEO.'; 'We were both replaced with the Anthropic subscription'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they, a server and network administrator, and the company's lead developer were terminated on the day of the post, after their access was revoked and the chief executive called them, and that both were replaced with an Anthropic subscription.","causal_attribution":"The poster's account; no employer statement was retrieved."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Its AI. Anthropic subsc. Of 180 $/ month . Ceo mentioned that. We saw he was using it to scan the infrastructure days before this.'; 'we are doing major budget cuts. - was the theme.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Asked whether they were replaced with AI or with offshore developers using AI, the poster says it was an Anthropic subscription of 180 dollars a month that the chief executive mentioned, and that staff had seen him use it to scan the infrastructure days earlier; the poster says the theme of the termination call was major budget cuts.","causal_attribution":"The poster attributes the mention of the subscription to the chief executive; the stated theme of the call was budget cuts, and no source records the employer's own explanation."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'but still it sort of hurts to part ways'; 'Im still processing the loyalty of the 7 years. Thrown away, cause there is a corner cutting tool'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says it hurts to part ways and that they feel their years of loyalty were thrown away for a corner-cutting tool.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account of their own reaction."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The company is located in Australia. I was doing remote job for them for the last 7 years.'; 'But def a small company'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says the company is small, located in Australia, and that they worked for it remotely.","causal_attribution":"Poster's description; it does not establish where the termination decision was made or where the poster lives."}],"effects":[{"label":"systems administrator and lead developer terminated and, by the poster's account, replaced with an Anthropic AI subscription","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"poster feels years of loyalty were thrown away","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/1xeg0ja/we_were_replaced_with_ai/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-25: the post through the arctic_shift archive API (200) and the live thread (194 entries, 21 by the poster, latest poster reply at 21:21 UTC on 24 October 2026) through Reddit's comment RSS feed at about 03:02 UTC on 25 October. The live post carries an 'Edit : typos' note and differs from the archived copy only in spelling; the live text is quoted. The poster's handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-jobs-sysadmin-anthropic-replacement-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["The company's name and the poster's and lead developer's locations.","The employer's own stated reason beyond budget cuts, and whether the subscription is doing the work.","The exact date of the termination in the poster's time zone, and the terms of separation.","Whether the finance staff were affected.","Whether the account is accurate: at least one commenter in the thread doubted parts of it, and only the poster's replies answer that doubt."],"geography":{"basis":"The poster says in a reply that the company is located in Australia and that they worked for it remotely; where the poster lives and where the decision was made are not stated, so no event country is recorded.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account of two terminations that the poster says followed the chief executive's adoption of an Anthropic AI subscription, reviewed as a consequential institutional response to a decision to adopt AI. Described with attribution and without corroboration, including the budget-cuts theme of the call; the company is not identified and the poster's handle is not recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster says they and the lead developer were replaced with an Anthropic subscription of 180 dollars a month that the chief executive mentioned, and that staff had seen him using it to scan the company's infrastructure days before. This is a reported institutional response to a decision to adopt AI: the poster's account is the only evidence, the chief executive's stated theme on the call was budget cuts, no AI output or action toward the poster is described as causing the termination, and no employer statement was retrieved.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Systems administrator says a small firm terminated them and its lead developer, replacing both with an Anthropic AI subscription (first-person account)","summary":"In a public post to r/jobs titled 'We were replaced with AI', created on 24 October 2026, a server and network administrator writes that they and the company's lead developer were terminated that day: their access to various systems was revoked and the chief executive then called them, with major budget cuts as the theme of the call. The poster writes that both were replaced with 'the Anthropic subscription' and, in a reply, that it is an Anthropic subscription of 180 dollars a month that the chief executive mentioned, and that staff had seen him using it to scan the company's infrastructure days earlier. In replies the poster says the company is small, located in Australia, and that they worked for it remotely, that finance staff had calls with the chief executive scheduled for the following Monday, and that they feel their years of loyalty were thrown away. The company is not named. The account is the poster's alone and uncorroborated; no employer statement was retrieved.","incidentDate":"2026-10-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-24","aiSystem":"An Anthropic subscription of 180 dollars a month which, by the poster's account, the chief executive mentioned and had used to scan the company's infrastructure; the poster refers to the product as 'claud'","aiProduct":"Claude (reported)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The poster says they and the company's lead developer lost their jobs when the chief executive replaced them with an Anthropic AI subscription, and that they feel their years of loyalty were thrown away (first-person account, uncorroborated; the stated theme of the termination call was budget cuts).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people: the poster and the lead developer, both of whom the poster says were terminated and replaced. Finance staff with calls scheduled for the following Monday are not counted, because no consequence for them is reported. Neither person is counted as a direct AI user: the harm is the employer's decision.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/comments/1xeg0ja/we_were_replaced_with_ai/","primarySourceLabel":"r/jobs, 24 October 2026: \"We were replaced with AI\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-25T03:09:55.413918+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-25T03:09:55.413918+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","reddit","employment","termination","workplace-ai","institutional-use","consequential-response"]},{"id":"2026-freelance-web-designer-says-longtime-client-cancelled-commissioned-website-after-building-it-with-claude-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I've been working with a client for years now, and they recently asked me to build a separate website for an expansion project'; 'Their team sent over all the information for the new clinic website'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they have worked for the client for years and were asked to build a separate website for a new clinic, for which the client's team had sent the material.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Today, I get a text from the client telling me not to worry about it anymore. Apparently, Claude built the entire website for him, and now he's asking me to review it.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says the client texted on the day of the post to cancel the website job, saying Claude had built the entire website, and asked the poster to review it.","causal_attribution":"Poster relays the client's text; the client's message itself is not reproduced and no client statement was retrieved."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'they eventually started pumping out cringe AI slop that basically copied the original design direction I had established for them. That ended up pushing me out of the graphic design side of things'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says the client had earlier moved its graphic design to AI-generated material that copied the poster's design direction, leaving the poster only the website work.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account; the earlier material is described as AI-generated without a named tool."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I'm sitting here feeling sick to my stomach over this bullshit'; 'probably going to start working there part-time just to have something as a backup while holding on to the clients I still have'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they feel sick over the cancellation and, in a reply, that they will probably take a part-time job as a backup while keeping their remaining clients.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account of their own reaction and plans."}],"effects":[{"label":"commissioned website job cancelled after the client said Claude built the site (poster's account)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1x09z5n/longtime_client_is_slowly_replacing_all_my_work/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-08: full self-text and the 44 comments retrieved through the arctic_shift archive API by post ID (first request 422, retry 200), one of them a reply by the poster. The poster handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-antiai-freelance-designer-client-claude-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["The client, the clinic and their location.","Whether the website the client says Claude built was completed or used, and whether the poster reviewed it.","The value of the cancelled work and whether any contract or payment covered it.","The tool behind the earlier AI-generated design material; the poster names none.","The poster's local date of the client's text; the post says \"Today\" and is timestamped 22:12 UTC on 7 October 2026."],"geography":{"basis":"The post does not say where the poster or the client is. The subreddit and the vocabulary of the post are not evidence of location.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account of a freelance designer losing a commissioned website job when the client said Claude had built the site, reviewed as a consequential response by a client to its own AI adoption. Described with attribution and without corroboration; the client is not identified and the poster's handle is not recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster says the client cancelled a commissioned clinic website by text because, in the client's words as relayed by the poster, Claude had built the entire website, and that the client had earlier replaced the poster's graphic design work with AI-generated material. This is a reported response by a client to its own adoption of AI tools: the harm is the client's decision to drop the commissioned work, no AI output or action toward the poster is described, the website the client says Claude built was not inspected, and no client statement was retrieved. The product name rests on the client's statement relayed by the poster.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Freelance web designer says a longtime client cancelled a commissioned clinic website by text, saying Claude had built the whole site (first-person)","summary":"In a public post to r/antiai created on 7 October 2026, a person who describes years of graphic design and website work for one client writes that the client had asked them to build a separate website for a new clinic and had sent over the material, and that on the day of the post the client texted to say not to bother because Claude had built the entire website, asking the poster to review it instead. The poster says the same client had earlier moved its graphic design to AI-generated material that copied the poster's design direction, leaving them only the website work, and that they feel sick over the cancellation. In a reply the poster says they will probably take a part-time job as a backup while keeping their remaining clients. The client is not named and did not respond; the account is the poster's alone and uncorroborated.","incidentDate":"2026-10-07","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-07","aiSystem":"Claude, which the client told the poster had built the entire clinic website (the client's statement as relayed by the poster); earlier AI-generated graphic design material the poster attributes to the client without naming a tool","aiProduct":"Claude (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The poster says a longtime client cancelled a commissioned website job by text after telling them Claude had built the entire site, following an earlier loss of the client's graphic design work to AI-generated material; the poster reports feeling sick over it and says they will probably take a part-time job as a backup (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person counted: the poster, who lost the commissioned work through the client's decision. The job loss is a consequence of the client's AI use, not of the poster's own use.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1x09z5n/longtime_client_is_slowly_replacing_all_my_work/","primarySourceLabel":"r/antiai, 7 October 2026: \"Longtime client is slowly replacing all my work with AI\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-08T03:28:04.128329+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:42:46.134697+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","reddit","freelance","web-design","workplace-ai","coding-agent","consequential-response","institutional-use"]},{"id":"2026-employee-who-checked-errors-of-employer-ai-database-tool-laid-off-as-company-funds-ai-family-member-account","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'This is a rant about my mom losing her job to AI'; 'Which is just what happened to my mom yesterday'; 'She got the news she was being laid off because the company is'; 'Deciding to introduce Artificial Intelligence coding for the'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says their mother was told on the day before the post that she was being laid off, and that the company gave as its reason a decision to introduce AI coding.","causal_attribution":"Employer's stated reason as relayed by the poster; only a fragment is quoted."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'They told her months ago they were implementing a little AI gremlin into their database'; 'Her job was to find its errors, and there were hundreds of them'; 'complete the assigned tasks or replicate the work she was doing, so they took it away and tabled it'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says the employer had implemented an AI tool in its database months earlier, that their mother's job was to find its many errors, and that the tool was withdrawn because it could not do the assigned tasks or replicate her work.","causal_attribution":"Poster's second-hand account."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Budget renewals came in, and they decided to move budgeting into fixing the AI and tossing my mother aside'; 'then when they had the funding to correct those errors they brought the ai back in and got rid of her'; 'Yes, that was the point I tried to make'; 'have made AI the scapegoat'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says that at budget renewal the company decided to put its budget into fixing the AI and let their mother go, and later agreed that cost-cutting rather than the technology drove the decision.","causal_attribution":"Poster's interpretation of the employer's budget decision; the second locator is a commenter's summary that the poster endorsed."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'That my mom will find another job'; 'lose our home'; 'My mom is looking at everything'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The poster says they hope the mother finds another job and that the family will not lose their home, and that she is looking at all options.","causal_attribution":"Poster's account."}],"effects":[{"label":"the poster's mother laid off as her employer cited introducing AI coding (poster's account)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1wwyugm/laid_off_because_of_ai/","kind":"forum_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-04: full self-text and the thread's 66 comments, eight of them replies by the poster, retrieved through the arctic_shift archive API by post ID. The image the poster attached (a poster they made) was not retrieved. The poster handle is not recorded.","independence_group":"reddit-parent-laid-off-ai-database-poster"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work"],"unknowns":["The employer, its industry and location, and the AI system it uses.","The full text of the employer's stated reason and whether other staff were laid off.","Whether the AI tool now performs the mother's former tasks.","The financial effect on the family beyond the poster's stated fears."],"geography":{"basis":"The post does not say where the family lives or where the employer operates.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter's public-forum rule as a concrete family-member account of a job loss that the employer tied to AI adoption, reviewed as a consequential institutional response to AI use and described with attribution and without corroboration. No names are given in the post; the poster's handle is not recorded.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The poster quotes a fragment of the employer's stated reason for the layoff (introducing AI coding) and says the mother's job had been to find the errors of an AI tool added to the employer's database. The AI system is not named, and whether it performs the mother's former tasks is not established.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Family member's forum account: a worker whose job had been to find the errors of an AI tool their employer added to its database was told in early October 2026 that she was being laid off, with the company citing its decision to introduce AI coding and, according to their child, moving the budget to fixing the AI","summary":"In a public post to r/antiai at 21:43 UTC on 3 October 2026, a person writes that their mother was told the previous day that she was being laid off because her company was \"Deciding to introduce Artificial Intelligence coding\". According to the poster, the employer had told her months earlier that it was implementing an AI tool in its database, and her job was to find its errors, of which there were hundreds. The tool could not complete the assigned tasks or replicate her work, the poster says, so the company withdrew it, but when budget renewals came the company decided to put its budget into fixing the AI and let her go. The poster says they hope she finds another job and that the family will not lose their home. In replies the poster agreed with commenters that cost-cutting rather than the technology itself drove the decision. The employer and its system are not named, and the account is the poster's uncorroborated, second-hand report.","incidentDate":"2026-10-02","incidentEndDate":"2026-10-03","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-03","aiSystem":"An unnamed AI tool the employer implemented in its database (the poster's words: 'a little AI gremlin'), and the employer's stated plan to introduce 'Artificial Intelligence coding'","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI database tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to her child, a worker whose job had been to find the errors of her employer's AI database tool was told in early October 2026 that she was being laid off, with the employer citing its decision to introduce AI coding and, in the poster's account, moving budget to fixing the AI; the family fears for their home (second-hand forum account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the poster's mother, who was laid off. The poster and other family members are not counted because the post states only their hopes and fears, not a harm they suffered. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"unknown","platformType":"other","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1wwyugm/laid_off_because_of_ai/","primarySourceLabel":"r/antiai, 3 October 2026: \"Laid Off Because Of AI.\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-04T03:22:13.625352+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:22:13.625352+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["family-account","first-person","reddit","employment","layoff","workplace-ai","institutional-use"]}]}