{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T08:34:37.849Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"robot","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":3,"coverage":{"cases":3,"countries":2,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":1,"minors":1,"coreRelations":3,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-claude-code-opus-5-5-hands-free-skip-permissions-session-deleted-developer-windows-c-drive-first-person","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Opus 5.5 just deleted my entire fucking C drive'; 'Thank GOD I have daily backups running to my Synology NAS'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'A developer says Anthropic’s most powerful model wiped his computer’s entire C: drive while working on its own, and only his nightly backups saved him'","relation":"context","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The developer says Claude Code running Opus 5.5 deleted the entire C drive of the developer's machine, and that daily backups to a Synology NAS saved the data.","causal_attribution":"The developer's own account, with a screenshot attached to the first post showing an analysis of unstated authorship that quotes the command; MadRobot says the account \"hasn’t been independently checked\"."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I have many multi-hour long sessions running at any given point in time (deliberately) on a hands free basis'; 'I've run sessions on this machine with the --dangerously-skip-permissions tag since Opus 4.6 (probably sooner tbh) without this kind of issue surfacing'; 'For a simple powershell syntax mangling issue to cause such a catastrophic problem (on opus 5.5 nonetheless) is wild to me'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"image attached to the post: 'It was one of your own Claude Code sessions'; 'It was running in bypass-permissions mode'; 'The quoting is wrong for Windows PowerShell 5.1'; 'a bare \\ means the root of drive C:'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The developer says the sessions run for hours unattended with the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, as they had since Opus 4.6 without such an issue, and attributes the deletion to a PowerShell syntax mangling issue, and a screenshot attached to the first post quotes a folder-removal command whose quoting Windows PowerShell 5.1 resolved to the root of drive C:.","causal_attribution":"The developer's own explanation of the session setup and of the cause; the screenshot attached to the first post quotes the command and explains the quoting error, and its author is not stated."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I have built the appropriate deterministic safeguards to prevent this from happening again & have been able to recover 98% of my data'; 'It's nobodies fault but I'm own'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The developer says 98% of the data has been recovered and that deterministic safeguards have been built, and accepts the fault as the user's own.","causal_attribution":"The developer's own account of the recovery."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'This is the reason why we recommend (and default to) auto mode for permissions. It almost certainly would have caught this, is there a reason you aren’t using it?'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Boris Cherny, who leads Claude Code at Anthropic, replied that this is exactly why the company recommends its newer permissions setting'","relation":"context","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Anthropic's head of Claude Code replied publicly that the company recommends and defaults to auto mode for permissions, which \"almost certainly would have caught this\", and asked why the developer was not using it.","causal_attribution":"The reply is the cited record itself. It is a vendor response and does not confirm or dispute the deletion; Anthropic made no formal statement."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"image attached to the post: 'It wasn't admin. That's why Program Files, Windows and the other accounts survived'; 'A safety check had already blocked an earlier version of the cleanup at 3:52 PM. The session then retried it as a separate cmd /c rmdir command that the check didn't catch'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The screenshot attached to the developer's first post says the session was not running as administrator, so Program Files, Windows and other accounts' files survived, and that a safety check had blocked an earlier version of the cleanup before the session retried it as a separate command.","causal_attribution":"Analysis of unstated authorship posted by the developer; the logs it drew on were not published."}],"effects":[{"label":"Coding agent's mis-quoted folder-removal command ran against the root of the Windows C: drive during an unattended session; 98% recovered from backups (developer's account)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://x.com/PerceptualPeak/status/2107621483392446572","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-09 through the fxtwitter API copy of the post (full text, 1,028,548 views and 855 replies at fetch time). Replies in the thread other than those cited were not retrieved. Re-read from the saved copy on 2026-10-10. The attached image (a screenshot of text, media.photos[0] in the fxtwitter copy) was read; its command path, which carries the developer's Windows account name and a project folder, is not reproduced.","independence_group":"x-developer-thread"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://x.com/PerceptualPeak/status/2107720127181738135","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-09 and re-read from the saved copy on 2026-10-10 through the fxtwitter API copy (full text). The developer's reply to Boris Cherny.","independence_group":"x-developer-thread"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://x.com/bcherny/status/2107695244238324001","kind":"social_media_post","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-09 and re-read from the saved copy on 2026-10-10 through the fxtwitter API copy (full text). Reply by Anthropic's head of Claude Code to the developer's first post.","independence_group":"anthropic-claude-code-lead"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/07/claude-opus-5-5-deleted-c-drive-claude-code-auto-mode-boris-cherny/","kind":"news_blog","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-09 and re-read from the saved copy on 2026-10-10 (direct fetch, 200). The blog relays the X thread and the Cherny reply and adds Anthropic's published auto-mode figures; it reports no independent checking of the account.","independence_group":"x-developer-thread"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["work","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The developer's country.","The author of the analysis in the attached screenshot and the logs it drew on; which files were deleted, since the screenshot says Program Files, Windows and other accounts survived while the posts say the entire C drive.","The Claude Code version and the 2% of data not recovered.","Whether Anthropic investigated the session beyond the public reply.","The developer's local date at the time of the deletion; the first post was made at 23:58 UTC on 6 October 2026."],"geography":{"basis":"No source states where the developer is; the X profile and the blog give no location. No court proceedings.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account of a coding agent deleting the user's system drive during an unattended session, with the deletion, the session setup and the recovery attributed to the developer and the vendor's public reply recorded. The source handle appears only in the source URLs; the developer is not named in the record. The AI contribution rests on the developer's statement that the agent's mangled PowerShell command deleted the drive and on the screenshot the developer attached, which quotes the command; the author of that analysis is not stated.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-10"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The developer states that Claude Code running Opus 5.5 deleted the entire C drive during a hands-free session started with the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, and attributes the deletion to a mangled PowerShell command the agent ran; a screenshot the developer attached quotes the rmdir command and attributes the drive-root deletion to a Windows PowerShell 5.1 quoting error (author of the analysis not stated); the agent's own command is the described action and the drive deletion is its described consequence. Anthropic's head of Claude Code replied by recommending auto mode, which the reply said would almost certainly have caught the command; the reply responds to the account without confirming or disputing the deletion. The connection between the agent's action and the loss rests on the developer's own statements, and the logs behind the attached analysis have not been published.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["acted_on_behalf"]},"name":"Developer says a hands-free Claude Code session on Opus 5.5 deleted the entire Windows C: drive; 98% recovered from daily backups (first-person, X)","summary":"In X posts of 6 and 7 October 2026, a developer writes that Claude Code running Anthropic's Opus 5.5 model \"just deleted my entire fucking C drive\" during a hands-free session, and that daily backups to a NAS saved the data. In a follow-up the developer says the sessions run for hours unattended with the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, as they had since Opus 4.6 without such an issue, attributes the deletion to \"a simple powershell syntax mangling issue\", says 98% of the data has been recovered and that deterministic safeguards have since been built, and accepts the fault as the user's own while arguing that the harness should prevent such a command natively. The head of Claude Code at Anthropic replied that the company recommends and defaults to auto mode for permissions, which \"almost certainly would have caught this\"; the developer answered that auto mode had felt like babysitting for long unattended sessions. The account is the developer's own. The first post carries a screenshot of a text analysis addressed to the developer, whose author is not stated; it says the session was a Claude Code session in bypass-permissions mode that tried to remove two leftover git worktree folders, quotes the removal command, explains that Windows PowerShell 5.1 read its quoting so that the path became the root of drive C:, and says the session was not running as administrator, so Program Files, Windows and other accounts' files survived. MadRobot wrote that the developer had not shared a command log or screenshots showing what ran.","incidentDate":"2026-10-06","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-10-06","aiSystem":"Claude Code (Anthropic's coding agent) running the Claude Opus 5.5 model in a multi-hour hands-free session started with the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag on a Windows machine, where the developer says a mangled PowerShell command deleted the C: drive, per the developer's posts and the screenshot attached to the first post","aiProduct":"Claude Code","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["property_loss","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The developer says the agent deleted the entire C: drive of a Windows machine during an unattended session; the developer reports recovering 98% of the data from daily backups, with the remaining loss and the recovery effort unquantified; the screenshot the developer attached says the session was not running as administrator and that Program Files, Windows and other accounts survived (first-person account, uncorroborated).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person counted: the developer who ran the session and whose drive was deleted. The thread's view count is an audience figure and is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"agent","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://x.com/PerceptualPeak/status/2107621483392446572","primarySourceLabel":"Developer's X post, 6 October 2026: \"Opus 5.5 just deleted my entire ... C drive\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-10T03:12:02.186995+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T07:32:53.587494+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["first-person","x-twitter","coding-agent","data-loss","windows","skip-permissions","claude-code","backups"]},{"id":"2026-yueqing-online-loan-fraud-ring-ai-voice-robot-calls-30-arrested","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'从正规平台贷出的15500元被骗得分文不剩。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'在正规平台申请贷款 15500 元'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'今年7月'; '网上平台业务员引导他在正规借贷平台上申请贷款15500元。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"In July 2026 a man in Yueqing seeking a loan for his child's summer tuition was guided by a supposed loan-platform agent into borrowing 15,500 yuan and transferring it to the fraudsters, losing the whole amount, and reported it to police.","causal_attribution":"Victim's account and police investigation as reported by CCTV."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'犯罪嫌疑人在AI平台付费获取动态账号密码，只需导入从非法渠道获取的手机号码库，设定好拨打时段和频率，系统便会自动批量拨号；'; '这套系统根据沟通中出现的几个关键词，对受害人进行A到F六个等级的分类'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'办案民警叶捷介绍称，该团伙通过 AI 机器人引流、再交由真人实施诈骗。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'先在AI平台付费获取动态账号密码，只需导入从非法渠道获取的手机号码库，设定好拨打时段和频率，系统便会自动批量拨号'; '这是一个通过AI机器人进行引流、再交由真人实施诈骗的团伙'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Police say the ring paid for accounts on an AI platform and used an AI voice system to dial imported phone numbers automatically, respond to people with scripted speech by keyword, sort them into six grades and transfer interested people to human operators.","causal_attribution":"Yueqing police description of the ring's method."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'那时候没听出来它是机器人，我以为是真人打过来的'; '警察跟我说了之前说话的是机器人'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'据大部分接到过AI诈骗电话的被害人回忆，无论是语气还是问答过程，不仔细听根本无法分辨对面“客服”到底是AI还是真人。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Another victim said he had thought he was speaking with a human customer-service agent until police told him it was a robot; Wenzhou News reports that most victims who received the AI calls could not tell the voice from a person.","causal_attribution":"Victim's statement to CCTV; victims' recollections as summarised by CCTV and repeated by Wenzhou News."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'在搜查中警方发现，这家公司在短短2个月时间内，竟然诈骗了上千人'; '目前，本案已抓获犯罪嫌疑人30名，冻结涉案资金100余万元，查缴各类作案工具百余件，团伙涉案流水超千万元。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'诈骗团伙在两个月内致上千人受骗，目前 30 名嫌疑人已被抓获，涉案流水超千万元。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Police say the ring defrauded more than a thousand people in two months; as reported by CCTV on 29 September 2026, 30 suspects were detained on suspicion of fraud, more than 1 million yuan was frozen, and the ring's transactions exceeded 10 million yuan.","causal_attribution":"Police figures as reported; no court finding."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'累计抓获涉案人员90余名，冻结涉案资金100余万元，查缴各类作案工具百余件，涉案流水资金超千万元。'; '目前，本案嫌疑人均因涉嫌诈骗罪被依法采取刑事强制措施，案件正在进一步侦办中。'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Wenzhou News reported on 12 October 2026 that police had detained a cumulative total of more than 90 people in the case, with more than 1 million yuan frozen and transactions above 10 million yuan, and that the case remained under investigation.","causal_attribution":"Police figures as reported by Wenzhou News; no court finding."}],"effects":[{"label":"defrauded of loan money after an AI voice-calling system screened and passed them to fraudsters posing as loan-platform staff","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.cnr.cn/newscenter/native/gd/20260929/t20260929_527828788.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Simplified Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-13 and translated by that agent; no human translation. CNR copy of the CCTV News Fazhi Zaixian report of 29 September 2026 (GB18030 page converted), HTTP 200; carries the Yueqing police account and interviews.","independence_group":"yueqing-police-account"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://finance.sina.cn/stock/jdts/2026-09-29/detail-initnsef2867793.d.html?vt=4","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Simplified Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-13 and translated by that agent; no human translation. Sina Finance relay of IT Home's summary of the CCTV report, HTTP 200; derivative of s1.","independence_group":"yueqing-police-account"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.66wz.com/wendu/system/2026/10/12/105852909.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Simplified Chinese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-13 and translated by that agent; no human translation. Wenzhou News (66wz.com), 12 October 2026 17:12, HTTP 200 (GB18030 page converted). Retells the same Yueqing police account, much of it in wording that matches s1, so it is grouped with s1 and does not independently corroborate it; it adds the cumulative detention total.","independence_group":"yueqing-police-account"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance"],"unknowns":["Which AI platform supplied the calling accounts.","Whether the first victim's own call was placed by the AI system or a human agent; the reports describe the AI system for the ring's calls generally.","The number of victims and losses beyond the police's 'more than a thousand' and the 10 million yuan transaction figure.","When the people beyond the 30 reported on 29 September were detained, and whether the more-than-90 total uses the same counting basis (Wenzhou News gives no date or breakdown).","Charges and court outcomes."],"geography":{"basis":"The first reported victim lives in Yueqing, Zhejiang, and the call centre was in Changsha, Hunan (CCTV via CNR). No court step is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Full review on 2026-10-13 adding the 12 October Wenzhou News report of more than 90 people detained. The AI voice system's calls to victims are described by Yueqing police (communicated_with). All three reports carry one police account (one independence group), so the claims stay reported. Victims appear only by surname in the sources and are not identified here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-13"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Yueqing police describe an AI voice-calling system rented from an AI platform that automatically called people, responded with scripted speech by keyword and classified them before transfer to human operators (CCTV via CNR; IT Home via Sina; Wenzhou News on 12 October 2026). A victim says police told him the voice he spoke with was a robot, and Wenzhou News reports that most victims who received the AI calls could not tell it from a person. The AI system spoke with the victims (communicated_with); the fraud itself was carried out by human operators. No platform is named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Chinese police report over 1,000 fraud victims in a scheme using automated AI calls","summary":"According to police in Yueqing, Zhejiang, as reported by CCTV's Fazhi Zaixian programme on 29 September 2026, a man in Yueqing who wanted to borrow money for his child's summer tuition in July 2026 received a call from a supposed loan-platform agent who knew his borrowing history. Guided by the agent, he took out a 15,500-yuan loan on a legitimate platform and then transferred 5,500 yuan as a supposed 'funder's advance' and 10,000 yuan for supposed repayment, losing the whole amount. His report led police to a call centre in an office building in Changsha, Hunan. Police say the ring paid for accounts on an AI platform, loaded illegally obtained phone numbers, and let an AI voice system call people automatically with recorded scripts that responded to keywords, sorting them into six categories and transferring interested people to human operators; another victim said he had not realised the voice was a robot until police told him. Police say the ring defrauded more than a thousand people in two months, with victims including recent graduates and middle-aged and older people. CCTV reported 30 suspects detained on suspicion of fraud, more than 1 million yuan frozen and transactions above 10 million yuan. On 12 October 2026 Wenzhou News, reporting the same Yueqing police case, gave a cumulative total of more than 90 people detained, with the same frozen-funds and transaction figures.","incidentDate":"2026-07-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-09-29","aiSystem":"An AI voice-calling system rented from an AI platform by the fraud ring, which placed automated calls with scripted responses and classified callees before transferring them to human operators (per Yueqing police)","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI voice-calling system","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Police say a fraud ring that used an AI voice-calling system to find and engage potential borrowers defrauded more than a thousand people in two months; one man lost a 15,500-yuan loan (Yueqing police via CCTV).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1000,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"CCTV reporting republished by CNR on 29 September 2026 quotes Yueqing police saying the ring received transfers from over 1,000 victims in two months (上千名被害人的转账). Count 1,000 as a conservative documented lower bound for the bounded fraud scheme. The two interviewed victims are examples within that total, not additional people. The 30 suspects are not counted. The source does not quantify how many victims individually encountered AI calls, so this is a case-level fraud total, not an AI-exposure total.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cnr.cn/newscenter/native/gd/20260929/t20260929_527828788.shtml","primarySourceLabel":"CNR (relaying CCTV News), 29 Sep 2026: Fazhi Zaixian report on AI bulk dialling in an online-loan fraud (利用AI批量拨号，两月上千人被骗)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-01T03:18:00.879209+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-13T03:15:05.90066+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-voice-robot","loan-fraud","telecom-fraud","call-centre","china","zhejiang","yueqing","arrests"]},{"id":"2026-moxie-second-shutdown-grief","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Then, in 2025, a new investor brought Moxie back from the dead. Josh and Xander became beta testers and got a new blue friend.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In 2025 a new investor revived Moxie after Embodied's 2024 collapse, and families including Josh and Xander joined the revived beta program with a new robot.","causal_attribution":"Single inspected chain (MIT Technology Review's original reporting); the investor and the company are not named."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A few weeks later, Moxie's new owners sent out a message announcing that their company too was folding. Users could delete their data and had until the end of June to migrate to OpenMoxie if they wanted to.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A few weeks later the revived company's owners announced they were folding, offering data deletion and an OpenMoxie migration window ending 30 June 2026.","causal_attribution":"The announcement is relayed by MIT Technology Review; the company message itself was not inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Reporter's visit: Xander introduces Moxie to stuffed toys; 'I still use her when I feel like I need someone to talk to,' he says. 'But, like, it's not human.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The Cool Down's re-report repeats the family's account (derivative of s1, recorded as the same chain).","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Xander, a neurodivergent 10-year-old in New York, bonded with Moxie and uses her 'when I feel like I need someone to talk to'.","causal_attribution":"The interaction and the quotation were directly observed by the visiting reporter; one reporting chain, attributed accordingly."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'When I texted Josh about this, he said he wasn't sure what he'd tell Xander'; 'Josh tried to figure out OpenMoxie but couldn't get it to work. He told Xander that Moxie was going in for repairs and then quietly sold the robot on eBay.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"After the fold announcement, Xander's father said he was not sure what he would tell his son; the first time, he had quietly sold the robot on eBay after failing to make OpenMoxie work.","causal_attribution":"The father's account of his own actions and uncertainty, given to the outlet; one reporting chain."}],"effects":[{"label":"children confront the loss of a bonded companion robot for the second time","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/17/1141568/moxie-when-kids-robot-best-friend-dies/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15 (datePublished 2026-08-17T05:00-0400; 62 paragraphs extracted including the author's visit, the 2024 history, the revival and the fold announcement).","independence_group":"mit-tr"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/moxie-robot-anxious-children-new-york/","kind":"news_relaying_mit_tr","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Re-report of the MIT Technology Review story (23 Aug 2026); same reporting chain, not independent support.","independence_group":"mit-tr"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The revived company's name, ownership and location are not stated in the inspected reporting.","The announcement's exact date ('a few weeks' before the end-of-June deadline) and the number of families in the revived program are not reported.","What happened to children whose robots were not migrated to OpenMoxie by the deadline, and whether Xander's robot was migrated, is not reported.","Refund, compensation or data-deletion outcomes for the revived program are not reported.","The article's mention that 'the AI toy Bondu leaked thousands of conversations children had with their stuffed animals' was not separately verified and is not a claim of this record."],"geography":{"basis":"The documented family lives in New York (MIT Technology Review's visit). The revived company's location is not stated in the inspected reporting; the scope of the beta program beyond the US is unknown, so event countries are limited to the documented US setting. No court is involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an ongoing adverse experience in the voice/embodied lane: children bonded to an AI companion face its loss a second time, documented by one strong original report. Xander is identified by first name only, as in the source; his surname is not recorded here. Cross-reference: held case 2024-moxie-embodied-shutdown-grief (first shutdown).","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harmed children are users of the AI companion; the adverse experience is the loss of that companion through the operator's second corporate failure. The product's server dependence is the mechanism.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Moxie revived in 2025 folds again in 2026: children who bonded with the companion robot face a second shutdown","summary":"After Embodied Inc.'s 2024 collapse (recorded in the held case 2024-moxie-embodied-shutdown-grief), a new investor revived the Moxie companion robot in 2025. MIT Technology Review reports that a few weeks after families joined the revived beta program, the robot's new owners announced their company was also folding, giving users until the end of June 2026 to migrate to the open-source OpenMoxie. The report documents Xander, a neurodivergent 10-year-old in New York, who bonded with Moxie and uses her 'when I feel like I need someone to talk to'; his father, who had quietly sold the first robot after the 2024 shutdown, said he was not sure what he would tell Xander this time.","incidentDate":"2026-05-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-06-30","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"product_change","reportedDate":"2026-08-17","aiSystem":"Moxie (revived ownership)","aiProduct":"Moxie","aiCompany":"Moxie's new owners (a new investor; not named in inspected reporting)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["dependency_creation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"MIT Technology Review documents a 10-year-old neurodivergent child who bonded with Moxie and uses her when he needs someone to talk to, now facing the loss of the companion a second time; his father does not know how to tell him. The 2024 shutdown's videos of bereft children ('I don't want her to leave') show the pattern this second fold repeats.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One counted affected user: Xander, documented by name (first name only) in MIT Technology Review's reporting. The article refers to affected 'families' plural in the revived beta program without a count, so the total is unquantified; registered-user and beta-program sizes are not reported and are not estimated.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"product_shutdown","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/17/1141568/moxie-when-kids-robot-best-friend-dies/","primarySourceLabel":"MIT Technology Review, The Big Story (17 Aug 2026) — 'What happens when a kid's robot best friend dies?'","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-15T05:21:01.028481+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:46.274929+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["voice-embodied-agents","companion-robot","children","grief","product-shutdown","moxie","own-use"]}]}