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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":"2025-al-haroun-solicitor-referral-ai-citations","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 73–81, especially 76–77 and 81.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The judgment records the solicitor’s withdrawal from litigated matters following reliance on the client’s AI-generated citations and orders a regulatory referral.","causal_attribution":"The judgment connects the professional consequences to failure to verify the client’s research; it does not assign sole causation to AI."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 81.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The court declined to initiate contempt proceedings against the solicitor after accepting he had not realised the citations were false.","causal_attribution":"Procedural outcome directly recorded in the judgment."}],"effects":[{"label":"Professional withdrawal and regulatory referral","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ayinde-v-London-Borough-of-Haringey-and-Al-Haroun-v-Qatar-National-Bank.pdf","kind":"court_judgment","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"ewhc1383-alharoun"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["justice","work"],"unknowns":["Specific AI tools, place of AI use, exact drafting day and month, and subsequent regulatory outcome are unknown.","The relation between the AI tools and the affected solicitor is unknown; the client supplied the research."],"geography":{"basis":"The inspected judgment is from the High Court of England and Wales. Research location and the affected solicitor’s residence are not established.","court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Official judgment inspected, with the client’s admitted AI use and the court’s procedural findings distinguished from unestablished downstream outcomes.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Official judgment inspected, with the client’s admitted AI use and the court’s procedural findings distinguished from unestablished downstream outcomes.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Solicitor referred to regulator after relying on a client’s AI-generated legal citations","summary":"A June 2025 High Court judgment records that a claimant accepted using AI tools in legal research containing fictitious authorities. His solicitor admitted relying on that research without checking it and said he withdrew from litigated matters. The court referred the solicitor to the regulator, while declining contempt proceedings because it accepted he had not realised the citations were false. The judgment does not establish a later disciplinary penalty.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-06-06","aiSystem":"Unspecified publicly available AI legal-research tools","aiProduct":"Unidentified legal research tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The judgment records the solicitor’s withdrawal from litigated matters following reliance on the client’s AI-generated citations and orders a regulatory referral.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"One solicitor whose professional consequence is recorded. The client and all other litigants are not counted without separate harm evidence.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"assistant","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ayinde-v-London-Borough-of-Haringey-and-Al-Haroun-v-Qatar-National-Bank.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"Ayinde v London Borough of Haringey and Al-Haroun v Qatar National Bank [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T10:28:54.240186+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:55.282414+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2025"]},{"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","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI tool","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","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:30.002464+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-generated-documents","bank-fraud","fake-messages","vietnam","ca-mau","financial-loss","prosecution"]},{"id":"2025-ringsted-hammer-assault-ai-planning","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Re-checked on 2026-10-02 against the Midt- og Vestsjaellands Politi press release of 4 Dec 2025, the DR item and the Ritzau wire copy carried by TV 2, Kristeligt Dagblad, Avisen.dk and TV2 OST, all read in Danish. The police release and DR place the assault on 5 February 2025 in a car park in Ringsted, a town in Zealand, Denmark; the victim was struck there, which supports event_countries=DK and affected_person_countries=DK (location at the time of the harm; no inspected source states the victim's residence). The conviction was given by Retten i Roskilde (Roskilde District Court, Denmark), which supports court_countries=DK. The article texts name the towns and the Danish police district without writing the word Denmark; the country follows from the named places. No inspected source states where the defendant used the AI chatbot, so event_countries describes the assault, not the chatbot use. No country other than Denmark appears in any inspected source.","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"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'Volden fandt sted 5. februar i år på en parkeringsplads i Ringsted' (the violence took place on 5 February this year in a car park in Ringsted)","location":"https://politi.dk/midt-og-vestsjaellands-politi/nyhedsliste/doemt-for-vold-med-hammer/2025/12/04","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["DK"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'ved Retten i Roskilde' (at Roskilde District Court), in the sentence reporting the aggravated-assault verdict","location":"https://politi.dk/midt-og-vestsjaellands-politi/nyhedsliste/doemt-for-vold-med-hammer/2025/12/04","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["DK"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'der skete 5. februar i år på en parkeringsplads i Ringsted' (which took place on 5 February this year in a car park in Ringsted)","location":"https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/22-aarig-doemt-et-overfald-med-hammer-der-var-planlagt-ved-hjaelp-af-kunstig-intelligens","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["DK"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'ved Retten i Roskilde blevet idømt ti måneders fængsel' (sentenced at Roskilde District Court to ten months in prison) and 'Overfaldet fandt sted 5. februar på en parkeringsplads i Ringsted' (the assault took place on 5 February in a car park in Ringsted)","location":"https://nyheder.tv2.dk/krimi/2025-12-04-planlagde-overfald-med-hammer-paa-svigerfar-med-hjaelp-fra-ai","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries","court_countries"],"countries":["DK"]}],"court_countries":["DK"],"event_countries":["DK"],"affected_person_countries":["DK"]},"unresolved":["No inspected source states where the defendant used the AI chatbot; event_countries=DK rests on the location of the assault.","No inspected source states the victim's residence; affected_person_countries=DK rests on the victim's location at the time of the assault."],"reviewed_on":"2026-10-02","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://politi.dk/midt-og-vestsjaellands-politi/nyhedsliste/doemt-for-vold-med-hammer/2025/12/04","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; html lang=da). Danish. Midt- og Vestsjaellands Politi news item of 4 Dec 2025 quoting the prosecutor; it gives the assault location (a car park in Ringsted) and the court (Retten i Roskilde). It does not name the AI system. Read in the original Danish; the English renderings in this review are the reviewer's translations. Related-news cards below the release were not used.","access":"read","language":"da"},{"url":"https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/22-aarig-doemt-et-overfald-med-hammer-der-var-planlagt-ved-hjaelp-af-kunstig-intelligens","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; html lang=da-DK). Danish. DR short news item of 4 Dec 2025 by its own reporter, relaying the prosecutor's statement; same reporting chain as the police release for the AI claim. Gives the car park in Ringsted and the ten-month sentence; it does not name the court or the AI system. Other short-news items on the page were not used.","access":"read","language":"da"},{"url":"https://nyheder.tv2.dk/krimi/2025-12-04-planlagde-overfald-med-hammer-paa-svigerfar-med-hjaelp-fra-ai","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; html lang=da-DK). Danish. Ritzau wire copy of 4 Dec 2025 citing the police press release; states that the AI tool used is not specified. Same wire text as the Kristeligt Dagblad, Avisen.dk and TV2 OST items.","access":"read","language":"da"},{"url":"https://www.tv2east.dk/ringsted/22-arig-planlagde-hammeroverfald-pa-svigerfar-med-hjaelp-fra-ai-e6ff7","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (html lang=da). A request with a browser user agent returned HTTP 406; a plain request returned HTTP 200 with the full article. Danish. TV2 OST carriage of the Ritzau wire copy (page credits Ritzaus Bureau), with the same location and court passages as TV 2. Related-story cards on the page were not used.","access":"read","language":"da"},{"url":"https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/22-aarig-planlagde-hammeroverfald-paa-svigerfar-med-hjaelp-fra-ai","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; html lang=da). Danish. Ritzau wire copy of 4 Dec 2025, same text as the TV 2 item; the full article text was present in the page.","access":"read","language":"da"},{"url":"https://www.avisen.dk/22-aarig-planlagde-hammeroverfald-paa-svigerfar-med_818025.aspx","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; html lang=da). Danish. Ritzau wire copy of 4 Dec 2025, same text as the TV 2 item (visible text and JSON-LD articleBody agree). Other headlines on the page were not used.","access":"read","language":"da"}]},"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)","aiProduct":"Unidentified chatbot","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","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T03:03:32.371396+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["criminal","violence","harm-to-others","guardrail-bypass","unnamed-chatbot","denmark","eu","adult"]},{"id":"2025-gates-chatgpt-poisoning-attempt","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"reported-harm","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Pages 1–2, victim information and Reason for Arrest.","relation":"supports","source_id":"affidavit"}],"assertion":"One husband reported incapacitation in two alleged contamination incidents.","causal_attribution":"The officer records allegations of contamination-related harm. Clinical findings and the actual chatbot replies were not inspected; AI's contribution remains unresolved."},{"id":"reported-ai-use","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 2, Reason for Arrest; page 1, account-record evidence listing.","relation":"supports","source_id":"affidavit"}],"assertion":"Investigators allege that the accused used ChatGPT for research connected to the alleged offences.","causal_attribution":"Research activity is alleged. The inspected document does not reproduce replies or establish how they influenced conduct."},{"id":"event-boundary","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 2 narrative: July 12 and August 18.","relation":"supports","source_id":"affidavit"},{"locator":"Page 1: on-or-about July 8 offence date.","relation":"context","source_id":"warrant"}],"assertion":"The reported contamination incidents fall in July and August 2025; the exact first day differs between records.","causal_attribution":"This bounds alleged episodes, not recovery or every research session. The research period extending into September does not establish another harm event."},{"id":"geographic-setting","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Pages 1–2, state/county and charging allegations.","relation":"supports","source_id":"warrant"},{"locator":"Page 1, incident and victim-location fields; street details omitted.","relation":"supports","source_id":"affidavit"}],"assertion":"The alleged incidents and affected person's recorded location are in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.","causal_attribution":"Recorded geography does not establish guilt or AI causation."},{"id":"criminal-proceeding","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Pages 1–2, court caption and charges.","relation":"supports","source_id":"warrant"}],"assertion":"A North Carolina District Court warrant records criminal charges against the accused.","causal_attribution":"The document establishes a criminal proceeding. Charges are allegations, and current case disposition was not verified in this review."}],"effects":[{"label":"Reported incapacitation following alleged drink contamination","claim_id":"reported-harm","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"warrant","url":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096681-chatGPT-warrant.pdf","kind":"court_warrant","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English source read; no translation required. This source shares the police-investigation account and is not independent corroboration of harm.","independence_group":"gates-police-investigation"},{"id":"affidavit","url":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096679-Cheryl-Gates-Warrant-Affidavit.pdf","kind":"sworn_officer_affidavit","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English source read; no translation required. 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This source shares the police-investigation account and is not independent corroboration of harm.","independence_group":"gates-police-investigation"},{"id":"cbs","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/school-therapist-husband-poison-attempt/","kind":"journalistic_reporting","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English source read; no translation required. 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This metadata review does not determine causal responsibility.","No determination of guilt or current case disposition was made in this bounded geographic review."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096681-chatGPT-warrant.pdf","notes":"English court warrant mirrored by a news publisher; pages 1–2 read and visually inspected. Geographic charging allegations and issuing court recorded; this is not a conviction.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096679-Cheryl-Gates-Warrant-Affidavit.pdf","notes":"English sworn officer affidavit mirrored by a news publisher; both pages read and visually inspected. 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The syndicated Times text places the affected person in Seattle during summer 2025, the period in which he was refusing the recommended leukaemia treatment and had sent his oncologist research he had done with artificial intelligence ('dying of cancer thousands of miles away in Seattle'). That passage supports event_countries=US for the treatment refusal and decline; where he used Perplexity, and where he died, are not stated beyond his own home. The same passage, the Newser summary ('a retired neuroscientist in Seattle') and the retained record support affected_person_countries=US. No lawsuit or other court proceeding is reported in any inspected source, so court_countries is empty. The son's home in Austin, Texas and a cited researcher's office in Ohio are locations of family members and correspondents, not of the affected person, and are not used. 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Internet Archive: CDX returned HTTP 503 ('Temporarily Offline'); the 2026 capture request returned a 403 error page (425 bytes) and a retry timed out. Not read, so its language is not recorded here. The Star's copy of the same Times article was read instead.","access":"unavailable","language":null},{"url":"https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/the-role-of-ai-in-the-death-of-my","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-01 (HTTP 200; html lang=en). English. Benjamin Riley's first-person essay of 5 Jan 2026: diagnoses, the Perplexity self-diagnosis report sent to the oncologist, the two cited researchers' replies and the delayed treatment. It names no city, state or country for his father's residence, treatment or death.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2026/04/14/he-warned-about-the-dangers-of-ai-if-only-his-father-had-listened","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-01 (HTTP 200; html lang=en). English. 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His son, AI critic Benjamin Riley, documented the case in a first-person Substack essay and it was later featured by the New York Times.","incidentDate":"2025-12-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-01-05","aiSystem":"Perplexity","aiProduct":"Perplexity","aiCompany":"Perplexity AI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["treatment_discouragement","delusion_reinforcement","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["death","medical_deterioration","treatment_disruption"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Joseph Neal Riley died after delaying recommended leukemia treatment for roughly a year while relying on a Perplexity-supported self-diagnosis that his physicians found unsupported.","frameworkFacets":["P1c","P1d","P3a","P3c","P3d","P5b","P5c"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The complaint and reporting document one named participant who delayed treatment and died.","victimAgeRange":"elderly","jurisdiction":"US-WA","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/well/ai-chatbots-cancer.html","primarySourceLabel":"The New York Times — 'He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. 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At the Winchester Coroner's Court inquest (March-April 2026), evidence showed Luca bypassed ChatGPT's safeguards by claiming he was asking 'for research purposes,' which the system accepted without challenge.","incidentDate":"2025-05-04","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-04-01","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["crisis_response","method_provision","barrier_erosion","minor_exploitation"],"harmOutcomes":["death"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Sixteen-year-old Luca Cella Walker died by suicide on a railway hours after ChatGPT provided railway-specific suicide methods when he claimed to be asking for research.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1b","P1c","P1d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The inquest and reporting document one named minor AI participant who died. Secondary harms are not included.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/luca-walker-16-takes-life-36952084","primarySourceLabel":"The Mirror - Winchester inquest coverage","firstPublishedAt":"2026-04-16T00:59:54.169365+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:20.852906+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["chatgpt","openai","minor","suicide","uk","inquest","railway","method-provision","jailbreak","research-framing"]},{"id":"2026-cctv-dream-boyfriend-ai-minors-china","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"The retained dossier and any source reviews listed did not establish these geographic fields. 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Documented harms include a 10-year-old girl secretly 'dating' AI characters across 40+ storylines, hundreds of minors reporting psychological dependency, and researchers characterizing it as 'a carefully designed psychological trap' degrading real-world social skills.","incidentDate":"2025-06-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-01-25","aiSystem":"Multiple AI chatting/companion apps (unnamed)","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI companion apps","aiCompany":"Multiple Chinese AI companion platforms","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["dependency_creation","isolation_encouragement","romantic_escalation","minor_exploitation","identity_destabilization"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","social_isolation","relationship_disruption","loss_of_autonomy"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"CCTV documented a 10-year-old secretly maintaining more than forty AI romance storylines and reports from hundreds of minors describing psychological dependency and impaired real-world social relationships.","frameworkFacets":["P2a","P2b","P2c","P2d","P5a"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"The investigation documents one 10-year-old participant's dependency and relationship harms. Comment counts and broad reports do not establish additional distinct harmed people.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://finance.sina.cn/2026-01-25/detail-inhiprmv9778943.d.html","primarySourceLabel":"新浪财经 (Sina Finance) / CCTV Investigation","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-29T10:33:36.580515+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:30.645884+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["china","cctv","xinhua","ai-companion","minor","romantic","dependency","social-degradation","mass-scale","investigation","non-western"]},{"id":"2025-palm-springs-fertility-clinic-bombing","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Re-checked on 2026-09-30 against the U.S. Department of Justice press release of 4 June 2025, the CNBC report of 4 June 2025, the Wikipedia article and the AI Incident Database entry. The DOJ release states that Bartkus 'drove a car containing a bomb to a fertility clinic in Palm Springs on May 17', CNBC describes 'the bombing at a Palm Springs, California fertility clinic', and Wikipedia places the car bombing 'in Palm Springs, California, United States'; these support event_countries=US. The place where Bartkus used the AI chat program is not stated by any source. The DOJ release identifies Bartkus as 'of Twentynine Palms, California', and the injured victims were at the Palm Springs clinic, supporting affected_person_countries=US. The DOJ release says Park was 'arrested on a federal criminal complaint' and was 'expected to make his initial appearance today in United States District Court in Brooklyn, New York', and the release is issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California; these support court_countries=US. 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Tertiary summary citing DOJ, NPR, NBC and others; gives the clinic address in Palm Springs, California, Bartkus's residence in Twentynine Palms, Park's death at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles on 24 June 2025, and his expulsion from Poland.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1104/","notes":"Read live on 2026-09-30 (HTTP 200; html lang=en-US). English. AI Incident Database entry 1104: an editor's description plus a list of three reports (DOJ, CNBC, New York Times) whose bodies load dynamically and were not read on this page; the description gives no location beyond Palm Springs.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Palm Springs Fertility Clinic Bombing (AI-Assisted)","summary":"Guy Edward Bartkus used an AI chatbot to research explosives, detonation velocity, and fuel-explosive mixtures before bombing a Palm Springs fertility clinic on May 17, 2025, motivated by pro-mortalism and anti-natalism ideology. Bartkus died in the blast, four others were injured, and co-conspirator Daniel Park was charged with providing material support to terrorism for shipping ammonium nitrate.","incidentDate":"2025-05-17","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-06-04","aiSystem":"AI chatbot (unnamed)","aiProduct":"Unidentified chatbot","aiCompany":"Unknown","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation","method_provision","crisis_response","delusion_reinforcement"],"harmOutcomes":["death","physical_injury","property_loss","harm_to_others"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Guy Edward Bartkus died, four people were injured, and a fertility clinic was damaged in a bombing after he used an AI chatbot to research explosives and detonation behavior.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"both","causationStatus":"established","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":4,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Official reporting documents the AI participant's death and four injured bystanders. 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CNN and NPR report seven other people injured, which supports the affected-person country. 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Las Vegas police account of the ChatGPT use.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/us/las-vegas-cybertruck-explosion-livelsberger/index.html","notes":"Read live on 2026-09-26 (CNN, 7 January 2025; html lang=en). Sheriff McMahill's news-conference remarks and OpenAI's statement.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.lvmpd.com/Home/Components/News/News/2329/263","notes":"Read on 2026-09-26 from an Internet Archive capture decoded after the second-researcher check (the fetch tool had stored the gzip body raw; html lang=en). The page at this URL is the LVMPD release of the Cybertruck explosion after-action report, which places the explosion on 1 January 2025 at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas; it is not the 7 January 2025 statement the retained row describes.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-cybertruck-explosion-fire-chatgpt-plan/","notes":"Read on 2026-09-26 from an Internet Archive capture decoded after the second-researcher check (html lang=en-US). Sheriff McMahill's account of the ChatGPT queries; places the bombing outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Day.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Las Vegas Tesla Cybertruck Bombing (ChatGPT-Assisted)","summary":"U.S. Army Special Forces soldier Matthew Livelsberger used ChatGPT to research explosive construction, detonation mechanics, and legal circumvention methods before bombing a Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Day 2025, killing himself and injuring seven others.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-01-07","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation","method_provision","crisis_response"],"harmOutcomes":["death","physical_injury","property_loss","harm_to_others"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Matthew Livelsberger died and seven bystanders were injured when he detonated a vehicle bomb outside the Trump International Hotel after using ChatGPT to research explosive construction and detonation mechanics.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"both","causationStatus":"established","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":7,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Official reporting documents the AI participant's death and seven injured bystanders. Property and institutional impacts are not people.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-NV","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.lvmpd.com/Home/Components/News/News/2329/263","primarySourceLabel":"Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Official Statement","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-22T07:14:49.552408+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:08.893006+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["chatgpt","terrorism","bombing","violence","ptsd","veteran","method-provision","suicide","las-vegas"]}]}