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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-livelsberger-cybertruck-chatgpt","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Carried forward from the 2026-09-15 metadata review and now supported by inspected bodies: NPR and CNN (7 January 2025) place the explosion outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Day and attribute the ChatGPT finding to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department; the LVMPD after-action-report release and CBS News (Archive captures decoded on 2026-09-26) place it at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on 1 January 2025. CNN and NPR report seven other people injured, which supports the affected-person country. No court proceeding is reported (the perpetrator died), so court_countries stays empty.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'The highly decorated soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said Tuesday.'","location":"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5251611/cybertruck-explosion-las-vegas-chatgpt-ai","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'The active-duty US Army Green Beret who authorities say exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas last week used artificial intelligence to plan the blast, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.'","location":"https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/us/las-vegas-cybertruck-explosion-livelsberger/index.html","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'seven other people were injured'","location":"https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/us/las-vegas-cybertruck-explosion-livelsberger/index.html","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'the Tesla Cybertruck explosion that occurred January 1, 2025, at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas'","location":"https://www.lvmpd.com/Home/Components/News/News/2329/263","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["No court country: the perpetrator died in the explosion and no court proceeding is reported in the inspected bodies (CNN: no additional suspects will be prosecuted).","The LVMPD URL retained as the row's primary source now serves the after-action-report release rather than the 7 January 2025 statement; the statement itself was not inspected."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-26","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5251611/cybertruck-explosion-las-vegas-chatgpt-ai","notes":"Read live on 2026-09-26 (NPR, 7 January 2025; html lang=en). 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"]}]}