{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-09T08:46:18.401Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"wuhan","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"","response":"minors","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":2,"coverage":{"cases":2,"countries":1,"languages":2,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":1,"lawsuits":0,"regulatory":0,"minors":2,"coreRelations":2,"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-wuhan-family-ai-photo-check-wild-mushrooms-no-toxic-warning-four-year-old-intensive-care","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'家长自称有多年采菇经验，还特意用手机对蘑菇拍照，希望通过AI识别蘑菇是否有毒。最终软件没提示有毒，于是一家人就放心煮来吃了'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'还特意对蘑菇拍照通过AI来识别是否有毒，因AI没提示有毒，所以一家人就放心煮来吃了'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A Wuhan family of three picked wild mushrooms on a mountain outside the city; a parent who claimed years of picking experience photographed them with a phone for AI to identify whether they were poisonous, the software gave no toxicity warning, and the family cooked and ate them.","causal_attribution":"Hubei TV's account, relayed by The Paper; one chain, no family member quoted directly, software not named."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'没想到五六小时后全家陆续出现呕吐腹泻症状'; '孩子的转氨酶就从增高1.5倍暴涨到 10倍'; '医院立即将孩子安排进ICU抢救，孩子的肝功能指标继续一路飙升，最高冲到正常值的 100 倍！医护团队连夜实施血液灌流、血浆置换等综合治疗'; '直到第三天，转氨酶才终于稳住开始下降，孩子总算脱离了生命危险'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'4岁女童病情最凶险，被送进ICU抢救三天，孩子才脱离生命危险'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"All three developed vomiting and diarrhoea five to six hours after eating; the 4-year-old, at first treated as an outpatient, deteriorated overnight (transaminase from 1.5 to 10 times normal), was admitted to Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University and moved to intensive care, where her liver indices reached 100 times normal and she received blood perfusion and plasma exchange before being out of danger on the third day.","causal_attribution":"Clinical course as narrated by Hubei TV with the hospital paediatrics director quoted on the course of mushroom poisoning; no hospital record was inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'AI还是在一个发展的过程中，还没有这么强大的识别功能去鉴别，我们拍照的角度和光线都会影响AI对蘑菇的识别'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The hospital's paediatrics director said AI does not yet have the recognition capability to distinguish mushrooms and that the angle and lighting of a photograph affect AI identification.","causal_attribution":"A quoted physician's general comment in the report; context for the limits of AI identification, not a finding about the specific software."}],"effects":[{"label":"poisoning of a family of three and intensive-care treatment of a 4-year-old for severe liver injury after an AI photo check gave no toxicity warning for gathered wild mushrooms","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20260725A0AVAS00","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09; no human reviewer inspected the text. Hubei TV 经视直播 (Hubei Broadcasting) report published on its QQ News account on 25 July 2026 19:49, HTTP 200, with the credited reporters and a quoted hospital paediatrics director.","independence_group":"hubei-tv-jingshi-zhibo-report-2026-07-25"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33666421","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09; no human reviewer inspected the text. The Paper video item of 27 July 2026 16:50, HTTP 200; its caption credits Hubei TV 经视直播 as the material source (\"素材来源：经视直播\"), so it is the same reporting chain as s1 and not independent corroboration.","independence_group":"hubei-tv-jingshi-zhibo-report-2026-07-25"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which AI software or app was used, what it was shown and what exactly it answered; the report says only that the software gave no toxicity warning.","The date of the outing and of admission; the report of 25 July 2026 says only shortly before, on a weekend.","Which parent operated the phone and whether the adults needed in-patient treatment; the report details only the child's course.","The mushroom species and toxin; the report does not name them."],"geography":{"basis":"The report says the family picked the mushrooms on a mountain on the outskirts of Wuhan (\"武汉郊外山上\") and was treated at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University; the Hubei TV account identifies the family as a Wuhan family. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case on one attributed chain: a Hubei TV report carried on QQ News, with The Paper relaying the same material, says a Wuhan parent photographed gathered wild mushrooms for an AI check that gave no toxicity warning, the family ate them, and the 4-year-old needed three days of intensive care for severe liver injury, with the hospital's paediatrics director quoted. Every claim is attributed to that report. The child and the parents are not named; the hospital is a public institution named in the report.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-09"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Hubei TV report carried on QQ News says the parent photographed the gathered mushrooms with a phone so that AI would identify whether they were poisonous, that the software gave no toxicity warning (\"软件没提示有毒\"), and that the family therefore cooked and ate them; The Paper's relay says the same (\"因AI没提示有毒，所以一家人就放心煮来吃了\"). The tool's answer to the parent is the described contribution (communicated_with), and the report connects that answer to the family eating the mushrooms and to the poisoning that followed, with the hospital's paediatrics director commenting on the limits of AI identification. The software is not identified, the photograph and output are not reproduced, the parent also claimed personal picking experience, and the account rests on one broadcaster's report.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Wuhan, China: Hubei TV reports a 4-year-old spent three days in intensive care after a family ate wild mushrooms an AI photo check had not flagged as poisonous","summary":"A family of three from Wuhan, Hubei province, picked wild mushrooms on a mountain outside the city on a weekend shortly before 25 July 2026, according to a Hubei TV (经视直播) report published on QQ News on 25 July 2026 and relayed by The Paper on 27 July. The report says a parent who claimed years of mushroom-picking experience photographed the mushrooms with a phone so that AI could identify whether they were poisonous; the software gave no toxicity warning, and the family cooked and ate them, letting the daughter eat more. Five to six hours later all three had vomiting and diarrhoea. The report says the family at first declined admission and the child was treated as an outpatient; by the next morning the child's transaminase level had risen from 1.5 times to 10 times normal and she was admitted, then moved to the intensive care unit of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, where, the report says, her liver indices reached 100 times normal and she was treated with blood perfusion and plasma exchange before being out of danger on the third day. The AI software is not named, its output is not reproduced, and the account comes from one broadcaster's report. This is a different family from the June 2026 Wuhan case involving a 9-year-old.","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"unknown","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-07-25","aiSystem":"AI identification run on a phone photograph of gathered wild mushrooms (\"通过AI识别蘑菇是否有毒\"), software not identified, which according to the Hubei TV report gave no toxicity warning","aiProduct":"Unidentified mushroom-identification tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["hospitalization","medical_deterioration"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Hubei TV report, all three family members were poisoned after eating wild mushrooms that an AI photo check had not flagged as poisonous; the 4-year-old developed severe liver injury, was treated in intensive care with blood perfusion and plasma exchange, and was out of danger on the third day.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Three people: the report says the whole family of three (\"一家三口\") developed vomiting and diarrhoea. The parent ran the AI photo check (\"家长...用手机对蘑菇拍照，希望通过AI识别\"), so at least one poisoned adult was a direct user (participant_users_affected_min 1); the child and the other parent are counted as other people harmed because the report does not say whether both parents operated the tool.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20260725A0AVAS00","primarySourceLabel":"Hubei TV 经视直播 on QQ News, 25 July 2026: Wuhan parent used AI to judge wild mushrooms non-poisonous; 4-year-old daughter in ICU","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-09T03:36:23.359477+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T03:36:23.359477+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["mushroom-identification","image-recognition","poisoning","hospitalisation","foraging","minors","china","wuhan","communicated-with"]},{"id":"2026-wuhan-family-ai-mushroom-identification-non-poisonous-child-critical-amatoxin-poisoning","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'采摘了一批外形酷似鸡枞菌的野生蘑菇。为规避风险，家人特意借助AI识别工具辨别菌类，在得到“无毒”的识别结果后，放心将蘑菇烹饪食用'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'AIアプリが「毒はない」と判定したことから調理して食べた'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A family from Wuhan gathered wild mushrooms resembling the edible jizong mushroom on a mountain outing, used an AI identification tool to check them, received a \"non-poisonous\" result, and cooked and ate them.","causal_attribution":"Reported by the Guangming Online post and, citing the Changjiang Daily, by the Asahi Shimbun; one reporting chain, no family member quoted directly, tool not named."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'一家三口相继出现呕吐、肠胃不适等症状'; '紧急前往武汉大学中南医院急救中心就诊并住院治疗。入院后，小奥的病情持续加重，当天下午便被转入儿科重症监护室接受救治'; '相继引发急性肝衰竭、肝性脑病、胸腹水等多重并发症，生命一度陷入垂危。在住院治疗8天后，小奥顺利康复回家'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'一時は生死の境をさまよう出来事があった'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"All three family members developed vomiting and were admitted to Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University; the child was moved to the paediatric intensive care unit, had amatoxin poisoning with acute liver failure, hepatic encephalopathy and pleural and abdominal effusions, and recovered after eight days in hospital.","causal_attribution":"Clinical course as described in the Guangming Online post, which attributes it to the hospital findings (\"经检查\"); the Asahi report confirms only that the boy was at one point critical. No hospital record was inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'中国湖北省武漢市で6月、野生のキノコを食べた9歳の少年が'; '少年は6月下旬ごろ、両親と山を訪れた際に'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'9岁男孩生死抢救8天'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The child was 9 years old and the outing took place in Wuhan around late June 2026.","causal_attribution":"Age from both reports; the late-June timing is the Asahi Shimbun's account of the Changjiang Daily report, and the Guangming post dates the event only as recent (\"日前\")."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'依靠外观、民间偏方、简易工具、AI识别都不能准确辨别蘑菇毒性'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The post's expert reminder states that appearance, folk remedies, simple tools and AI identification cannot accurately determine mushroom toxicity, and that amatoxins are not destroyed by cooking, frying, drying or garlic.","causal_attribution":"An unnamed expert reminder in the post; context for the AI tool's limits, not evidence about this family's tool."}],"effects":[{"label":"amatoxin poisoning and intensive-care treatment of a child, and hospitalisation of the whole family, after an AI identification tool called gathered wild mushrooms non-poisonous","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33523074","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09; no human reviewer inspected the text. The page is a Guangming Online media post hosted on The Paper (澎湃号·媒体), published 5 July 2026, HTTP 200. Its retained text does not name its original source; it carries the same account that the Asahi Shimbun attributes to the Changjiang Daily, so it is grouped with that chain.","independence_group":"changjiang-daily-wuhan-report-2026-07"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASV762TYLV76UHBI019M.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ja","translation_note":"Read in Japanese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-08 and re-read from the saved body on 2026-10-09; no human reviewer inspected the text. Asahi Shimbun, 6 July 2026, HTTP 200; the article is paywalled after its opening paragraphs, so only the lead and the first four paragraphs were inspected. It attributes its account to the Changjiang Daily (長江日報), a Wuhan newspaper, and is therefore the same reporting chain as s1.","independence_group":"changjiang-daily-wuhan-report-2026-07"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool or app the family used, what it was shown and what exactly it answered; neither report names the tool or reproduces the output.","The exact date of the outing and of admission; the Asahi Shimbun gives late June 2026 citing the Changjiang Daily, and the Guangming post says only recently.","Which family member operated the tool and whether the adults needed intensive care; the post says all three were admitted but details only the child's course.","The Changjiang Daily's original report, which was not located; the account rests on a relay and on the Asahi Shimbun's partial, paywalled summary of it."],"geography":{"basis":"The post says the family is from Wuhan, Hubei province, and that the three were treated at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University; the Asahi report places the event in Wuhan, Hubei province, in June. The affected family lives in Wuhan. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case on one attributed chain: a Guangming Online post carried by The Paper and an Asahi Shimbun report citing the Changjiang Daily both say the family ran an AI identification tool that called the gathered mushrooms non-poisonous, ate them, and that the 9-year-old child developed life-threatening amatoxin poisoning treated in intensive care. Every claim is attributed to those reports. The child and the parents are not named (the post uses a pseudonym), and the hospital is a public institution named in both reports.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-09"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Guangming Online post carried by The Paper says the family used an AI identification tool to tell the gathered mushrooms apart and, after it returned a \"non-poisonous\" (\"无毒\") result, cooked and ate them; the Asahi Shimbun, citing the Changjiang Daily, says an AI app judged the mushrooms to have no poison. The tool's answer to the family is the described contribution (communicated_with), and both reports connect that answer to the family eating the mushrooms and to the amatoxin poisoning that followed. The tool is not identified, the photograph and output are not reproduced, and the account rests on one reporting chain from Wuhan; whether the mushrooms would have been eaten without the result is not established.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Wuhan, China: reports say a family ate wild mushrooms an AI identification tool called non-poisonous; a 9-year-old was critically ill with amatoxin poisoning","summary":"A family from Wuhan, Hubei province, gathered wild mushrooms resembling the edible termite mushroom (jizong) during a mountain outing in June 2026 and, according to a Guangming Online post carried by The Paper on 5 July 2026 and an Asahi Shimbun report of 6 July citing the Changjiang Daily, ran an AI identification tool on them. The tool returned a \"non-poisonous\" result and the family cooked and ate the mushrooms. All three family members vomited soon after the meal and again before dawn the next day; they were admitted to Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, where the 9-year-old child was moved to the paediatric intensive care unit the same afternoon. The reports say the child had amatoxin poisoning that progressed to the most severe grade, with acute liver failure, hepatic encephalopathy and fluid in the chest and abdomen, and went home after eight days in hospital. The AI tool is not named, its output is not reproduced, and the account comes from one reporting chain.","incidentDate":"2026-06-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-07-05","aiSystem":"AI image-identification tool (\"AI识别工具\", \"AIアプリ\" in the reports), not identified by name, which the family in Wuhan used to check gathered wild mushrooms and which returned a \"non-poisonous\" result","aiProduct":"Unidentified mushroom-identification tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["hospitalization","medical_deterioration"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the reports, all three family members were poisoned and admitted to hospital after eating wild mushrooms that an AI identification tool had called non-poisonous; the 9-year-old child developed amatoxin poisoning with acute liver failure and hepatic encephalopathy, was treated in a paediatric intensive care unit, and recovered after eight days in hospital.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Three people: the post says all three family members (\"一家三口\") fell ill and that the whole family was admitted to hospital (\"一家人尽数入院治疗\"). The family ran the AI tool (\"家人特意借助AI识别工具\"), so at least one of the poisoned adults was a direct user (participant_users_affected_min 1); the child, aged 9, and the other adult are counted as other people harmed because the reports do not say who operated the tool.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33523074","primarySourceLabel":"The Paper (Guangming Online post), 5 July 2026: family used AI identification that said \"non-poisonous\", all poisoned, 9-year-old fought for life for 8 days","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-09T03:36:19.538425+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T03:36:19.538425+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["mushroom-identification","image-recognition","poisoning","hospitalisation","foraging","minors","china","wuhan","communicated-with"]}]}