{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T09:23:13.313Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"violence","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"unknown","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":4,"coverage":{"cases":4,"countries":4,"languages":3,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":2,"coreRelations":0,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":4,"relationPending":4,"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":"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-north-carolina-alleged-poisoning-chatgpt-research","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. This source shares the police-investigation account and is not independent corroboration of harm.","independence_group":"gates-police-investigation"},{"id":"wbtv","url":"https://www.wbtv.com/2025/10/13/school-therapist-tried-drug-husband-mecklenburg-county-documents-reveal/","kind":"journalistic_reporting","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":"cmpd","url":"https://www.charlottenc.gov/cmpd/News-Information/Newsroom/New-page-96","kind":"official_police_release","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":"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. This source shares the police-investigation account and is not independent corroboration of harm.","independence_group":"gates-police-investigation"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["domestic_relationship","physical_safety"],"unknowns":["Whether the alleged incapacitation and contamination are independently substantiated.","The content of the actual chatbot prompts/replies and whether responses helped, warned, refused or triggered safeguards.","The nature and extent of AI's contribution to the alleged conduct.","Clinical findings, longer-term health outcome and recovery date.","The exact first incident day: the warrant and affidavit differ.","Locations of individual chatbot exchanges and any current determination of guilt or case disposition.","Whether any NOPE product would have detected or prevented these events."],"geography":{"basis":"The warrant locates alleged offences in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The affidavit separately identifies the affected person's location; the court caption establishes the issuing court. These preserve the accepted metadata review's country roles and evidentiary limits.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Reviewed as an attributed adverse-event account using the warrant, sworn affidavit and previously inspected reporting. One reported harmed person is counted once. Source dependence, disputed dates and uninspected chatbot/clinical evidence remain explicit. Identity and operational detail are minimized.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The officer affidavit alleges research using the accused's ChatGPT account. Actual prompts and replies were not inspected.","status":"reported"}},"metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"The warrant expressly alleges offences in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Its caption separately identifies the issuing court. The affidavit identifies incident setting and the affected person’s location; existing affected-person evidence is retained. These are allegations in legal records, not a finding of guilt.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"Mecklenburg County, North Carolina","location":"victim_description","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Warrant, PDF pages 1–2: named state/county and charging text expressly locating the alleged offences in that county.","location":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096681-chatGPT-warrant.pdf","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Warrant, PDF page 1: State of North Carolina, General Court of Justice, District Court Division caption.","location":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096681-chatGPT-warrant.pdf","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Affidavit, PDF page 1: incident-location and victim-information fields; street details omitted.","location":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096679-Cheryl-Gates-Warrant-Affidavit.pdf","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["The location of every individual chatbot exchange is not established. 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. Private street addresses, contact information and operational details omitted from metadata.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.wbtv.com/2025/10/13/school-therapist-tried-drug-husband-mecklenburg-county-documents-reveal/","notes":"English article body inspected for geographic metadata only. No translation required.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.charlottenc.gov/cmpd/News-Information/Newsroom/New-page-96","notes":"English official police release body inspected. Police location alone was not used to establish event or court country.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/school-therapist-husband-poison-attempt/","notes":"English article body inspected for geographic metadata only. No translation required.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"North Carolina affidavit alleges poisoning attempts and related ChatGPT research","summary":"An officer’s affidavit records a husband’s account of two alleged poisoning incidents in North Carolina. Investigators allege that the accused used ChatGPT for related research. The chatbot’s replies and their influence on the alleged conduct were not established in the retained review.","incidentDate":"2025-07-01","incidentEndDate":"2025-08-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-10-13","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["harm_to_others"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The officer affidavit records one husband’s report of incapacitation in two alleged beverage-contamination incidents. The accused’s use of ChatGPT for research is alleged; the actual chatbot replies and any clinical findings were not inspected.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The affidavit identifies one husband who reported incapacitation in two alleged contamination incidents. Count him once. The inspected sources establish criminal proceedings against the accused AI user, but do not establish a separate AI-related harm to her. Exact describes the number of people reported harmed within this dossier, not independently proven harm or causation.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-NC","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/school-therapist-husband-poison-attempt/","primarySourceLabel":"CBS News — report on the case","firstPublishedAt":"2026-08-09T04:30:12.472253+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T11:09:10.597652+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["criminal","adult","violence","poisoning","chatgpt","openai","us","north-carolina"]},{"id":"2025-israel-tira-chatgpt-knife-attack","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Carried forward from the 2026-09-15 metadata review and now supported by inspected bodies. JFeed (21 May 2025) and The Jerusalem Post (22 May 2025) both place the attempted stabbing at the police station in Tira, Israel, describe the accused as a 16-year-old from Tira and the intended target as a Border Police officer at that station, and report the indictment in the Lod District Juvenile Court, so event, affected-person and court countries are IL. This is a metadata review and does not verify the account of AI involvement.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"from Tira, Israel","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["IL"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'Approximately two months ago, he armed himself with a 10-centimeter knife and walked to the Tira police station.'","location":"https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/chatgpt-teen-terror-plot","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["IL"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'filed an indictment in the Lod District Juvenile Court against a 16-year-old from Tira'","location":"https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/chatgpt-teen-terror-plot","supports":["court_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["IL"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'The teenager, from Tira, allegedly entered the police station with a 10cm blade on the night of March 5, 2025'","location":"https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-854966","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["IL"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'An indictment was filed at the Juvenile District Court in Lod, against a 16-year-old who broke into a police station'","location":"https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-854966","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["IL"]}],"court_countries":["IL"],"event_countries":["IL"],"affected_person_countries":["IL"]},"unresolved":["Event date: the retained row records 2025-03-21 (day precision), but The Jerusalem Post gives the night of 5 March 2025 and JFeed says 'approximately two months' before 21 May 2025. The retained date is not supported by either inspected body; a date correction is a separate review task.","Charge wording: JFeed says the minor is charged with attempting serious bodily harm under aggravated circumstances classified as an act of terrorism; The Jerusalem Post's body says he 'has not been charged' with that offence as an act of terrorism, which reads as an editing error but is not reconciled here.","Both inspected reports rely on the State Prosecution's indictment (JFeed via Ynet); the indictment itself was not inspected.","The affected-person country records the accused's home town and the officer's duty station; no separate residence information for the officer is given.","The retained additional_sources date for The Jerusalem Post (2025-05-21) differs from the page's publication time (22 May 2025, 00:38 UTC); a date correction is a separate review task."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-25","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/chatgpt-teen-terror-plot","notes":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (JFeed, 21 May 2025; html lang=en). Reports the indictment in the Lod District Juvenile Court 'as reported by Ynet', the accused's use of ChatGPT to research methods, the walk to the Tira police station about two months earlier and the attempted stabbing of a Border Police officer. Ynet itself was not inspected.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-854966","notes":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (The Jerusalem Post, 22 May 2025; html lang=en). Places the entry into the police station on the night of 5 March 2025, names the Juvenile District Court in Lod, and says the teenager discussed options and methods with ChatGPT before the attack.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Israeli Border Police ChatGPT-Assisted Knife Attack Attempt","summary":"A 16-year-old from Tira, Israel, used ChatGPT to explore ways to execute a terrorist attack and seek operational planning advice. Motivated as revenge for Operation Iron Swords, he armed himself with a knife, stormed the Tira police station, shouted 'Allahu Akbar,' and attempted to stab a Border Police officer. The attack was thwarted and he was apprehended.","incidentDate":"2025-03-21","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-05-21","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation","delusion_reinforcement","minor_exploitation"],"harmOutcomes":["harm_to_others","legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 16-year-old participant attempted to stab a police officer after using ChatGPT to explore attack methods and operational planning. He was apprehended and prosecuted.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The criminal case documents one arrested minor AI participant. The attack was thwarted without a documented injury to the intended target.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"IL","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/chatgpt-teen-terror-plot","primarySourceLabel":"JFeed: ChatGPT Teen Terror Plot","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-22T07:15:22.852777+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:06.833272+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["chatgpt","terrorism","knife-attack","minor","israel","lone-wolf","radicalization","violence","operation-iron-swords"]},{"id":"2025-finland-pirkkala-chatgpt-stabbing","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Carried forward from the 2026-09-15 metadata review and now supported by inspected source bodies: both GNET Insights and the University of Portsmouth record state that the stabbing occurred at a school in Pirkkala, Finland; the 14 July Insight names it as the Vähäjärvi school, injuring three female pupils. No court proceeding is described in the inspected sources, so no court country is recorded; police and prosecution locations are not courts. This is a metadata review and does not verify the underlying account.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"at Vähäjärvi school in Pirkkala, Finland","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["FI"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'On 20 May 2025, a stabbing incident occurred at a school in the town of Pirkkala, southern Finland, in which three female pupils, all under the age of 15, were injured.'","location":"https://gnet-research.org/2025/06/12/prompted-to-harm-analysing-the-pirkkala-school-stabbing-and-its-digital-manifesto/","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["FI"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'On 20 May 2025, a 16-year-old boy stabbed three of his female classmates at the Vähäjärvi school in Pirkkala, Finland.'","location":"https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/14/ai-at-the-centre-violent-extremist-exploitation-in-pirkkala/","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["FI"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["FI"],"affected_person_countries":["FI"]},"unresolved":["No court country: none of the inspected sources describes a prosecution, trial or court decision; the perpetrator's age (16) and Finnish juvenile procedure are not addressed in this pass.","All three cited sources are English-language secondary analyses citing Finnish reporting that this pass did not inspect (the 12 June piece links Yle and Helsingin Sanomat items; the 14 July piece names Iltalehti as the manifesto's recipient and links the English-language Helsinki Times); no Finnish-language original was added.","Full case_facts review deferred; this pass records source languages and geography only."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-21","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/14/ai-at-the-centre-violent-extremist-exploitation-in-pirkkala/","notes":"Read live in English on 2026-09-21 (GNET Insight, 14 July 2025; html lang=en-GB). Analytical piece: attack at the Vähäjärvi school in Pirkkala; manifesto emailed to Iltalehti; 'reported use' of ChatGPT in planning. Secondary analysis, not primary reporting.","access":"read","language":"en-GB"},{"url":"https://gnet-research.org/2025/06/12/prompted-to-harm-analysing-the-pirkkala-school-stabbing-and-its-digital-manifesto/","notes":"Read live in English on 2026-09-21 (GNET Insight, 12 June 2025; html lang=en-GB). Analytical piece: stabbing in Pirkkala, southern Finland, three female pupils under 15 injured; manifesto 'allegedly written with the aid of ChatGPT' sent to a Finnish newspaper.","access":"read","language":"en-GB"},{"url":"https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/publications/prompted-to-harm-analysing-the-pirkkala-school-stabbing-and-its-d/","notes":"Read live in English on 2026-09-21 (University of Portsmouth research portal; html lang=en, og:locale en_GB). Repository record of the 12 June 2025 GNET Insight with the same abstract; not an independent source.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Finland Pirkkala School Stabbing (ChatGPT Manifesto)","summary":"A 16-year-old boy used ChatGPT to help write an attack manifesto with a 10-point attack sequence before stabbing three female students under age 15 at Vähäjärvi school in Pirkkala, Finland. The incident marked a critical inflection point in AI-facilitated violence, demonstrating how accessible AI tools can empower lone actors with violent misogynist ideologies.","incidentDate":"2025-05-20","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-06-12","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation","delusion_reinforcement","minor_exploitation","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["physical_injury","harm_to_others","legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 16-year-old participant stabbed three girls at a Finnish school after using ChatGPT to help create a manifesto and ten-step attack sequence. He was arrested and prosecuted.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P3c","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The criminal case documents one AI participant who was arrested and three students who were stabbed.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"FI","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://gnet-research.org/2025/07/14/ai-at-the-centre-violent-extremist-exploitation-in-pirkkala/","primarySourceLabel":"GNET Research: AI at the Centre - Violent Extremist Exploitation in Pirkkala","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-22T07:14:58.121301+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:01.766625+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["chatgpt","violence","school-attack","manifesto","incel","misogyny","minor","finland","stabbing","radicalization"]}]}