{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-02T17:29:12.637Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"relationships","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"minors","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":2,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":2,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":1,"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-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-utah-meta-ai-suggested-prompts-children-profile","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Meta AI posed a series of invasive prompts under the video, such as \"Who's the child passenger?\" and \"Where does Kalie Robins live?\"'; 'pulled information from her past posts ... including her location'; 'drew on other profiles, such as her mother's account'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Who's the child passenger?'; 'their names, birth information, pictures and videos of them'; 'It pieced together my information to show people where I live'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'suggested questions aimed at uncovering information about her children — including their names, birthdates, videos, newborn photos, even photos that had been deleted — and, ultimately, her live location'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Meta AI suggested prompts under Robins's 1 September car video including 'Who's the child passenger?' and 'Where does Kalie Robins live?', and clicking them produced her daughters' names, birth details, photos and videos from her own and relatives' posts, and assembled her likely location.","causal_attribution":"Robins's account given in separate interviews to CNET, NewsNation and Futurism; Meta does not dispute that the prompts were generated."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'A Meta spokesperson told CNET in an email that it \"fixed\" the issue and that Meta AI will no longer suggest inappropriate, personal questions on users' posts'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'\"While the content was available to this user, these prompts should never have been generated,\" Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby said, according to The Verge'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'its AI search feature \"missed the mark\"'; '\"fixed that issue\"'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Meta said the prompts 'missed the mark' and 'should never have been generated', that responses draw only on information the user can already access, and that it fixed the issue so Meta AI no longer suggests personal questions about people in posts.","causal_attribution":"Meta statements to three outlets."},{"id":"c3","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"'Meta also denied Robins' claim that its AI accessed a photo deleted years ago. Instead, Meta told CNET that the photo of Robins' kids was deleted right before the video was made and that a temporary bug briefly kept it visible. Robins disputed this'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Robins says one surfaced photo had been deleted years earlier; Meta says the photo was deleted shortly before the video and remained briefly visible because of a temporary bug.","causal_attribution":"Competing accounts from Robins and Meta reported by CNET."}],"effects":[{"label":"Meta AI prompts compiled a mother's young daughters' names, birth details and photos and her likely location; the mother reported distress and lost trust; Meta changed the feature","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/meta-ai-viral-video-personal-prompts-about-kids/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 (CNET, 12 Sep 2026). Direct interview with Robins plus Meta's emailed statement to CNET and its dispute of the deleted-photo detail.","independence_group":"cnet"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.newsnationnow.com/business/tech/ai/mom-meta-ai-analyzing-posts-about-kids/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 via the MSN content API copy (NewsNation, 17 Sep 2026; the newsnationnow.com host returns 403 to this box). Interview with Robins including the distress quotation.","independence_group":"newsnation"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://torontosun.com/news/world/utah-mom-sounds-alarm-after-meta-ai-digs-up-details-about-her-children-im-done","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 via the MSN content API copy (Toronto Sun, 15 Sep 2026). Relays Futurism's interview and Meta's statement to Futurism; treated as the Futurism chain.","independence_group":"futurism"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/meta-changes-ai-prompts-after-chatbot-asked-mother-to-identify-her-child-3408508/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-18 (Dexerto, 12 Sep 2026). Relays The Verge's report of Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby's statement; treated as The Verge chain.","independence_group":"verge"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use","institutional_use"],"contexts":["privacy","everyday_life","relationships"],"unknowns":["What Meta changed and how many other users saw similar prompts about children is not disclosed.","Whether the compiled information was shown to anyone other than Robins is not established.","No regulator has announced an inquiry in the inspected sources."],"geography":{"basis":"Robins is described as a Utah mother (Toronto Sun/Futurism; TRT Haber); the posts and prompts occurred on her US Instagram/Facebook accounts. No court.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a privacy and made-claim-about case: an AI feature compiled identifying details about two young children and a named adult's location, the adult reported distress and loss of control, and the company acknowledged the prompts should not have been generated. Four sources across four reporting chains read; the children's details are not reproduced. Low severity.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-18"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Meta acknowledged to CNET and The Verge that its AI generated the suggested prompts and that they 'should never have been generated', and said it fixed the issue. The AI made claims about identified people (the children's identities and the mother's location) rather than conversing with them; the mother's clicks on the prompts are recorded as own_use, and the platform's default feature as institutional_use.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Utah: Meta AI's suggested prompts under a mother's Instagram video compiled her young daughters' names, birth details and old photos and her likely home location; Meta said the prompts 'missed the mark' and changed the feature","summary":"On 1 September 2026 Kalie Robins, a Utah travel creator, posted a short Instagram video of herself singing in the car with one of her daughters; it was also shown on Facebook. The next day she noticed Meta AI had placed suggested questions under the post, starting with 'Who's the child passenger?'. Clicking the prompts, she said, produced her two daughters' names, birth information, photos and videos drawn from her own and relatives' past posts, including a newborn photo from her mother's account and a picture she believed she had deleted years earlier, and a further prompt, 'Where does Kalie Robins live?', assembled older and newer posts into her likely location. Her 2 September reaction video drew more than 310,000 likes. Meta told reporters the prompts 'missed the mark', 'should never have been generated' and had been fixed, while saying the feature only surfaces information the user can already access; it disputed that a long-deleted photo was used, saying the photo had been deleted shortly before the video and remained briefly visible through a bug. Robins said Meta never contacted her and that the episode left her feeling she had 'failed' her children.","incidentDate":"2026-09-02","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-09-10","aiSystem":"Meta AI (suggested-question prompts under Instagram and Facebook posts, drawing on the user's and related accounts' content)","aiProduct":"Meta AI","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A mother experienced distress and a loss of control over her children's privacy after Meta AI's suggested prompts compiled her two young daughters' identifying details and her likely location from scattered family posts; Meta acknowledged the prompts should not have been generated and changed the feature.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Kalie Robins (who used the prompts and reported distress) and her two daughters, whose identifying details were compiled. Exact count of three; her mother and other relatives whose posts were drawn on are not counted as harmed.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/meta-ai-viral-video-personal-prompts-about-kids/","primarySourceLabel":"CNET, 12 Sep 2026: Mother calls for 'accountability' after Meta AI mines family posts for info on minors (interview with Kalie Robins; Meta statement)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-18T03:25:15.671921+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:58.137201+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["meta-ai","instagram","facebook","privacy","children","profiling","suggested-prompts","united-states","utah","made-claim-about"]}]}