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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":"2026-chiang-mai-airport-woman-66-ai-generated-pilot-persona-facebook","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'เข้าช่วยเหลือคุณยายวัย 66 ปี ชาว จ.ลำปาง หลังเดินทางมาคนเดียวเพื่อรอพบชายชื่อ “ชัย” ซึ่งอ้างว่าเป็นนักบิน'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'จะมาพบคนชื่อชัย เป็นนักบินที่สนามบินเชียงใหม่'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'พบผู้สูงอายุเดินทางมาเพียงลำพังเพื่อรอพบชายชื่อ \"ชัย\" ซึ่งอ้างว่าเป็นนักบิน'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On the evening of 16 September 2026 a 66-year-old woman from Lampang was found waiting alone at Chiang Mai airport for a man called 'Chai' who she said was a pilot, having travelled by bus and tuk-tuk to meet him.","causal_attribution":"Chiang Mai Tourist Police account, relayed by several outlets."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'คุณยายหลงรักตัวละครที่สร้างจากระบบปัญญาประดิษฐ์ (AI) บน Facebook และเข้าใจว่ามีตัวตนอยู่จริง'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'เมื่อเจ้าหน้าที่ขอดูภาพบุคคลปรากฏเป็นภาพ AI ใน facebook จึงขอให้ตำรวจท่องเที่ยวช่วยประสานญาติ'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'ได้เสพสื่อโซเชียลมีเดียบน Facebook จนเกิดความหลงรักตัวละครที่สร้างจากระบบปัญญาประดิษฐ์ (AI) และเข้าใจผิดคิดว่ามีตัวตนอยู่จริง'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'เมื่อเจ้าหน้าที่ตรวจสอบรูปภาพกลับพบว่าเป็นภาพ AI'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"When officers looked at the man's picture it was an AI-generated image on Facebook; police concluded she had fallen in love with an AI-created character and believed it was a real person.","causal_attribution":"Police assessment on inspecting the picture; who operated the account is not reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'เจ้าหน้าที่เร่งประสานบุตรชาย หลังครอบครัวไม่ทราบว่าคุณยายเดินทางออกนอกพื้นที่'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'ทางตำรวจท่องเที่ยวเชียงใหม่จึงได้โทรไปบอก ซึ่งไม่ทราบว่าแม่เดินทางมาเชียงใหม่'; 'เช้าวันนี้ ( 17 กันยายน 69 ) ทางเจ้าหน้าที่ได้พาคุณยายนั่งส่งรถแท็กซี่เพื่อไปยังอาเขต'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'ผู้สูงอายุใช้ภาษาชนเผ่าเป็นหลักและพูดจาสับสน'; 'ก่อนจะอำนวยความสะดวกประสานงานส่งตัวกลับภูมิลำเนาอย่างปลอดภัยในวันรุ่งขึ้น'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Communication was difficult because she mainly speaks a hill-tribe language and was confused; police reached her son, who had not known she had left; she stayed overnight in the terminal and was sent home by bus on the morning of 17 September.","causal_attribution":"Police account."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'รู้จักกับนายชัยผ่านเฟซบุ๊ก ซึ่งอ้างตัวเป็นนักบินประจำสนามบินเชียงใหม่ และหลอกว่าจะนำเครื่องสำอางจากต่างประเทศมาฝาก'; 'เจ้าหน้าที่คาดว่าอาจตกเป็นเหยื่อของแก๊งสแกมเมอร์'; 'สังเกตเห็นภรรยาพูดคุยโทรศัพท์เป็นเวลานานอยู่บ่อยครั้ง และล่าสุดภรรยาบอกว่าจะเดินทางไปพบแพทย์ที่โรงพยาบาลใน จ.เชียงใหม่'; 'จะเร่งตรวจสอบข้อมูลโทรศัพท์ บัญชีเฟซบุ๊ก และประวัติการติดต่อทั้งหมด'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"Kom Chad Luek reports that she had come to know 'Chai' through Facebook, that he claimed to be a pilot based at Chiang Mai airport and said he would bring her cosmetics from abroad, that officials thought she might be a scammer gang's target, that her husband had noticed her long phone conversations and had been told she was going to a hospital appointment in Chiang Mai, and that her son said he would check her phone, Facebook account and contact history.","causal_attribution":"Kom Chad Luek's own reporting from the family home; the husband's and son's statements."}],"effects":[{"label":"deceived by an AI-generated 'pilot' persona into a lone cross-province journey and stranded overnight at an airport","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.matichon.co.th/local/news_5892707","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"th","translation_note":"Read live in Thai on 2026-09-30 (Matichon, 17 September 2026); relays the Chiang Mai Tourist Police account. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"chiang-mai-tourist-police"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.amarintv.com/news/social/557772","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"th","translation_note":"Read live in Thai on 2026-09-30 (Amarin TV, 17 September 2026); names the reporting Tourist Police officer and adds the son's call and the return arrangements. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"chiang-mai-tourist-police"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://today.line.me/th/v3/article/7Nvkp2Q","kind":"police_social_post_relay","access":"read","language":"th","translation_note":"Read live in Thai on 2026-09-30: the Chiang Mai Tourist Police post as republished by FM91 on LINE Today, 17 September 2026. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"chiang-mai-tourist-police"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.thaipbs.or.th/program/WanmaiThaiPBS/watch/288401","kind":"broadcaster_programme_page","access":"read","language":"th","translation_note":"Read live in Thai on 2026-09-30: Thai PBS morning-programme page for 18 September 2026 with a written summary of the segment; the video was not watched. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"chiang-mai-tourist-police"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.komchadluek.net/news/crime/622937","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"th","translation_note":"Read live in Thai on 2026-09-30 (Kom Chad Luek, 17 September 2026, crime desk): the Tourist Police account plus the husband's and son's comments at the family home in Lampang. The woman, her son, her ethnic group and her district are named there and withheld here. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"komchadluek-family-interview"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Who operated the Facebook account and whether the messages and phone conversations came from a person or an automated system; Kom Chad Luek describes a man, Siam Blockchain's headline calls the chat partner AI, and the police described only the picture as AI.","Whether any money or gifts were requested or sent.","Whether a complaint was filed about the account."],"geography":{"basis":"She was found at Chiang Mai International Airport, Thailand, having travelled from Lampang province, where she lives (Matichon; Amarin TV). No court is involved.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["TH"],"affected_person_countries":["TH"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an adverse everyday experience involving an AI-generated persona (an elderly woman deceived into a lone journey and stranded overnight); the AI system's relation to her is unknown. The account is the Chiang Mai Tourist Police's, relayed by Thai outlets. Her name, district and ethnic group are withheld.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Chiang Mai Tourist Police say the picture of the man she came to meet was an AI-generated image on Facebook and that she had fallen for an AI-created character (Matichon; Amarin TV; the police post via FM91; Thai PBS). Kom Chad Luek's own report describes a man claiming to be a pilot and does not mention AI. No forensic analysis is reported and the account was not identified. Thai PBS says she talked with a man claiming to be a pilot, and her husband describes long phone conversations (Kom Chad Luek), so she was in two-way contact with someone; no source establishes whether that was a person using the image or an automated account, so the relation is recorded as unknown.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Chiang Mai, Thailand: a 66-year-old woman from Lampang travelled alone to Chiang Mai airport on 16 September 2026 to meet a 'pilot' she had fallen for on Facebook; tourist police found his picture was AI-generated, contacted her son and sent her home the next morning","summary":"At about 8 pm on 16 September 2026, airport security and Chiang Mai Tourist Police found a 66-year-old woman from Lampang province waiting alone in the passenger terminal of Chiang Mai airport for a man called 'Chai', who she said was a pilot she had come to meet. She had travelled by bus from Lampang and taken a tuk-tuk to the airport. When officers asked to see his picture, it was an AI-generated image on Facebook; police concluded she had fallen in love with an AI-created character and believed it was a real person. Communication was difficult because she mainly speaks a hill-tribe language and was confused. Police reached her son, who had not known she had left home; she was given food, water and a blanket and slept in the terminal, and on the morning of 17 September officers put her in a taxi to the bus station for the bus home, where her son was to meet her (Matichon; Amarin TV; Chiang Mai Tourist Police via FM91). Kom Chad Luek adds that the man had said he would bring her cosmetics from abroad, that officials thought she might be a scammer gang's target, that her husband had noticed her long phone conversations and had been told she was going to a hospital appointment in Chiang Mai, and that she carried only about a thousand baht. No financial loss is reported.","incidentDate":"2026-09-16","incidentEndDate":"2026-09-17","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-17","aiSystem":"AI-generated images of a fictitious 'pilot' on a Facebook profile (per Chiang Mai Tourist Police); whether she exchanged messages with a person or an automated account is not reported","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"An elderly woman was deceived by an AI-generated 'pilot' persona on Facebook into a lone cross-province journey, waited in vain at an airport and was stranded overnight until police contacted her family (Chiang Mai Tourist Police via Matichon, Amarin TV and FM91).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the 66-year-old woman (Matichon; Amarin TV). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"elderly","jurisdiction":"TH","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.matichon.co.th/local/news_5892707","primarySourceLabel":"มติชน (Matichon), 17 September 2026: หญิงวัย 66 ปี นั่งรถข้ามจว. ตามเสียงหัวใจ รอเจอ ‘หนุ่มนักบิน’ ก่อนพบความจริง ตกหลุมรัก AI","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T04:13:42.313455+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T04:13:42.313455+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-generated-images","fake-persona","romance-scam","elderly","facebook","thailand","chiang-mai","tourist-police"]},{"id":"2026-kenya-sama-meta-ai-annotation-contract-ended-over-1000-redundancies-announced","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"announced on Thursday that the workers were being laid off after Meta terminated a contract.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"More than 1,000 low-paid workers in Kenya have been abruptly sacked by an outsourcing company contracted by Meta","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The sacked workers, many involved in AI training, have been given six days’ notice, according to the Oversight Lab","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"In a press release on the 16th April, Sama states it recently received a formal notice by Meta, a key client, that was ending its contract with the annotation firm","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Less than two months later, Meta ended its contract with Sama, which Sama said would result in 1,108 workers being made redundant.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Sama claims that Meta’s cancellation of the contract affected 1,108 workers.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"On April 16, that routine came to an end.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"Sama’s April 16 press release announcing the mass layoffs spoke of compliance with Section 40 of Kenya’s Employment Act","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"On 16 April 2026 Sama, an outsourcing company with operations in Nairobi that did AI-training and data-annotation work for Meta, announced that Meta had given formal notice ending its contract and that a redundancy process would affect more than 1,000 employees. Sama put the number at 1,108 workers. The Oversight Lab, an organisation that advocates for fair technology regulation in Africa, said the workers had six days' notice.","causal_attribution":"The announcement and the 'more than 1 000' figure trace to Sama's 16 April press release as reported by SvD, and 1,108 is Sama's figure as reported by BBC and Ars Technica, so they are one chain. The Guardian states 'more than 1,000' in its own voice without a stated source and attributes only the six days' notice to the Oversight Lab. No press release or redundancy notice was inspected directly, and the final number made redundant is not reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Last month, we paused our work with Sama while we looked into these claims.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"We’ve also decided to end our work with Sama because they don’t meet our standards.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Meta says it's because Sama did not meet its standards, a criticism Sama rejects.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"At no point were we notified of any failure to meet those standards","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"After the investigation was published at the end of February, all projects at the subcontractor Sama in Kenya linked to Meta’s smart glasses were halted.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Meta said in a statement reported on 17 April 2026 that 'last month' it paused its work with Sama while it looked into the claims, and that it decided to end its work with Sama because Sama does not meet its standards. Sama says it was never notified of any failure to meet those standards. SvD reports that after the investigation was published all Sama projects linked to Meta's smart glasses were halted.","causal_attribution":"Meta's and Sama's own statements to the outlets, each attributed. SvD says Meta declined to answer follow-up questions, and no source shows Meta's internal reasoning."},{"id":"c3","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"A Kenyan workers' organisation alleges Meta's decision was caused by the staff speaking out.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Meta has not addressed that allegation","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"the company has tried to identify who spoke with journalists","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"“After the exposé, they started looking for people who could have leaked the information,”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"“From what they told us, they said it was because of the exposé from the Swedish journalists,”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"Meta had pulled a major contract citing only compliance with Kenyan employment law.","relation":"context","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"we do not monitor or track employees for the purpose of identifying individuals who may have spoken to the media","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"we reject any suggestion of retaliatory behavior.","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A Kenyan workers' organisation alleges Meta's decision was caused by the staff speaking out, and, when the BBC reported it on 30 April 2026, Meta had not addressed that allegation. Employees told SvD that Sama tightened security and tried to identify who had spoken to journalists. A worker quoted by TechPolicy.Press says the workers were told the termination was because of the Swedish investigation, without saying who told them. Sama says it does not monitor or track employees to identify who spoke to the media and rejects any suggestion of retaliatory behaviour.","causal_attribution":"Allegations by a workers' organisation and by unnamed employees, denied or unaddressed by the companies. The TechPolicy.Press worker also says Meta cited only compliance with Kenyan employment law, which differs from Meta's public statement about standards. No document showing the reason for the termination was inspected."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"data annotation work, including working with video, image, and speech annotation for Meta’s AI systems for Ray-Ban Metas.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"The workers the Swedish newspapers spoke to were data annotators, teaching Meta's AI to interpret images by manually labelling content.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"The sacked workers, many involved in AI training, have been given six days’ notice, according to the Oversight Lab","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Last month Meta paused its work with Sama after allegations about the workers viewing private scenes filmed using the company’s Ray-Ban smart glasses","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Sama's Meta work included video, image and speech annotation for Meta's AI systems for Ray-Ban Meta glasses. The Sama annotators who told the Swedish newspapers about viewing private footage from the glasses were data annotators of this kind, and the Guardian reports that many of the workers made redundant were involved in AI training. Meta paused its work with Sama after allegations about the workers viewing private scenes filmed with the glasses.","causal_attribution":"Outlet descriptions of the work. Which of the redundant workers worked on the glasses projects is not reported, and no source states that the workers made redundant were the same people who spoke to the newspapers."}],"effects":[{"label":"More than 1,000 Sama workers in Kenya, many involved in AI training, were given notice of redundancy after Meta ended its contract, on six days' notice according to the Oversight Lab","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"Employees report tightened security and efforts to identify who spoke to journalists after the investigation (Sama denies tracking employees to identify sources)","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-outsourcing-company-for-meta-sacks-workers","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"guardian-sama-oversight-lab"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.svd.se/a/zOlP6K/meta-halts-ai-training-after-svd-gp-investigation","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"SvD's own English edition of the article, read in English. The Swedish investigation of 25 February 2026 (not cited) was read in Swedish by a language model with no human review.","independence_group":"svd-gp-follow-up"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yvgy0w6o","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"bbc-sama-meta-statements"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/meta-cuts-contractors-who-reported-seeing-ray-ban-meta-users-have-sex/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"bbc-sama-meta-statements"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.techpolicy.press/how-ais-labor-supply-chains-fail-workers/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"techpolicy-worker-interviews"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","privacy"],"unknowns":["Sama's press release and Meta's notice of termination were not inspected. The announcement is known through outlets and company statements.","The final number of workers made redundant and how many of them worked on the glasses projects are not reported. The Guardian says 'many' were involved in AI training.","The reason for the termination is disputed and no inspected source shows Meta's internal reasoning. Meta declined follow-up questions from SvD.","The retaliation account rests on a workers' organisation, unnamed employees and one worker quoted by TechPolicy.Press. That worker also says Meta cited only compliance with Kenyan employment law, which differs from Meta's public statement about standards.","No source states that the workers made redundant were the same people who spoke to the newspapers, and the annotators' accounts of the footage are anonymous interview accounts.","SvD's 19 April 2026 article was paywalled (two paragraphs read), The Standard's article on the Kenyan regulator was paywalled, and the SvD article in this record was read in its English edition.","Outlets differ on where Sama is headquartered (the Guardian says based in Nairobi, the BBC says US headquartered, TechPolicy.Press says San Francisco-based with offices in Nairobi, Ars Technica says Kenya-headquartered). This record uses only the location of the workers.","This record covers the April 2026 redundancies. The annotators' reported viewing of glasses users' footage started before 2026 and is not part of this record."],"geography":{"basis":"The Guardian describes the workers as 'in Kenya' and SvD refers to Sama's projects in Kenya and its Nairobi operations. Outlets differ on where Sama is headquartered and that is not used. Where Meta took the decision is not stated and is not used.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["KE"],"affected_person_countries":["KE"]},"publication":{"basis":"The Guardian (17 April), SvD and GP (17 April), BBC (30 April), Ars Technica and TechPolicy.Press (12 June 2026) were read in full from the saved bodies. The redundancy fact and figure trace to Sama's announcement and are left at reported. Meta's stated reasons and Sama's replies are attributed, and the retaliation allegation is recorded as disputed. The workers are described by role and are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The workers were data annotators whose work trained Meta's AI systems for its Ray-Ban Meta glasses (c4), and Meta says it paused the Sama work while it looked into claims about annotators viewing private footage from the glasses (c2). No AI system decided anything about the workers: Meta ended the contract and Sama announced the redundancies. The AI link is that the redundancies followed, and are alleged by a workers' organisation to result from, annotators' accounts of a workplace AI practice. Meta gives a different reason and Sama says it was not told of any failure (c3). No relation between an AI system and the workers is established, so the relation recorded is unknown.","status":"disputed"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Kenya: Sama announces more than 1,000 redundancies (1,108 by its own figure) after Meta ends its AI data-annotation contract, less than two months after annotators described intimate footage from Meta's AI glasses, and whether the two are linked is disputed","summary":"On 16 April 2026 Sama, an outsourcing company with operations in Nairobi that did AI data-annotation work for Meta, announced that Meta had given formal notice ending its contract and that a redundancy process would affect more than 1,000 employees. Sama put the figure at 1,108 workers, and the Oversight Lab said the workers had six days' notice. The decision came less than two months after the SvD and GP investigation in which Sama annotators said they had seen intimate footage from users of Meta's AI glasses. Meta said it paused its work with Sama the month before while it looked into those claims and then decided to end the work because Sama does not meet its standards. Sama says it was never notified of any failure to meet those standards. A Kenyan workers' organisation alleges Meta's decision was caused by staff speaking out, which Meta had not addressed when the BBC reported it on 30 April 2026. Employees told SvD that Sama tightened security and tried to identify who had spoken to journalists, which Sama denies. The workers are described by role and are not named.","incidentDate":"2026-04-16","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-04-17","aiSystem":"Human review of Meta AI assistant data from Ray-Ban Meta glasses by Sama annotators (AI training and data-annotation work), as reported","aiProduct":"Meta AI (reported)","aiCompany":"Meta","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Sama announced that more than 1,000 employees in Kenya, many involved in AI training for Meta, would be made redundant (1,108 by Sama's figure, on six days' notice according to the Oversight Lab) after Meta ended its contract. Whether the termination responded to annotators speaking about footage from Meta's AI glasses is disputed: a Kenyan workers' organisation alleges it did, Meta says Sama does not meet its standards, and Sama says it was never notified of a failure.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1000,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The Guardian states 'more than 1,000' workers were sacked without saying where the figure comes from, and SvD's 17 April article says Sama's press release announced a redundancy process that 'will affect more than 1 000 employees'. BBC and Ars Technica give Sama's own figure of 1,108. The lower bound of 1,000 is counted and the 1,108 figure is attributed to Sama. The Guardian says many of the workers were involved in AI training and does not say how many. Dependants are not counted. The final number made redundant is not reported.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-outsourcing-company-for-meta-sacks-workers","primarySourceLabel":"The Guardian (17 Apr 2026): Kenyan firm sacks more than 1,000 workers after losing Meta contract","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T21:16:44.033365+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:42.812683+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2026"]},{"id":"2026-meta-mci-us-employee-keystroke-and-screen-capture-for-ai-training-then-internal-data-exposure","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Meta is installing tracking software on U.S. employees’ work computers that will capture mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes, along with some screenshots to feed the data into its AI training pipeline, according to Reuters.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"will run on a designated list of work apps and websites.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The company added that safeguards are in place to protect sensitive content and that the data will not be used for any other purpose.","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"allows Meta to observe and collect data from staffers' actions on their work computers","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"A Meta spokesperson confirmed the project","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"To help, we're launching an internal tool that will capture these kinds of inputs on certain applications to help us train our models.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"It’s a piece of mandatory software that Meta began installing on the laptops of US employees last month.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"The company positioned the program as an opportunity for Meta employees to “help our models get better simply by doing their daily work,” with a promise that the information would not be used for performance reviews or other potentially invasive purposes.","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"From April 2026 Meta installed software on US employees' work computers that captures mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes and screen content on a designated list of applications and sites, and Meta said the inputs are used to train its AI models.","causal_attribution":"Meta's own statement of purpose (training its models) is quoted by several outlets from the same company statement. Reuters' original memo report could not be read (HTTP 401 and no archive copy), so the Reuters chain is inspected only through Fortune and Gizmodo. CNBC and WIRED report from their own internal messages and sources."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"When MCI launched, employees couldn’t opt out, but that changed to a limited degree after workers protested.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"It’s a piece of mandatory software that Meta began installing on the laptops of US employees last month.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"Meta this month began offering more exemptions to the monitoring, including letting staffers briefly turn off the surveillance so they could complete sensitive tasks, such as scheduling a personal appointment","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"can control what shows up on your screen by not doing personal work on your work computer,\" the memo said.","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"WIRED reports that MCI was mandatory software for US employees and that at launch employees could not opt out. WIRED also reports, citing two people familiar with the matter, that in June 2026 Meta began offering more exemptions, including letting staffers briefly turn off the tracking for sensitive tasks.","causal_attribution":"WIRED reports the opt-out position from its own sources. The CNBC memo excerpt shows Meta's launch-time answer to employees' concerns."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Multiple Meta employees characterized the data-tracking project as \"dystopian\" in internal messages viewed by CNBC.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Others expressed concerns that MCI could widely expose sensitive data, including user passwords, details about new product development, and personal information about workers' immigration status, health or family members.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"“Selfishly, I don't want my screen scraped because it feels like an invasion of my privacy,” wrote an engineer in an internal post seen by nearly 20,000 coworkers this week.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Employees objected internally: CNBC reports multiple employees called the project \"dystopian\" in internal messages and others worried it could expose sensitive data such as passwords and personal information, and WIRED quotes an engineer's internal post, seen by nearly 20,000 coworkers, saying having the screen scraped felt like an invasion of privacy.","causal_attribution":"Employees' own stated concerns as quoted by CNBC and WIRED from internal messages. These are reported reactions and concerns, and neither outlet reports that the concerns had materialised at that point."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Meta employees at several US offices walked into meeting rooms, broke for coffee at vending machines, and used the restrooms only to find pamphlets denouncing the company’s new mouse-tracking software as an “Employee Data Extraction Factory” and urging staff to sign an online petition against it.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"In Meta offices in California and New York, workers have been posting flyers in cafeterias and other communal areas pointing colleagues to the petition.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"Last month, more than 1,600 employees at the tech giant signed an internal petition protesting the laptop surveillance effort","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"In May 2026 flyers appeared in US offices pointing staff to a petition against the programme, and WIRED reported in June that more than 1,600 employees had signed an internal petition protesting it.","causal_attribution":"The TNW piece relays Reuters reporting on the flyers. WIRED reports the flyers and the signature count from its own sources."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Meta left potentially sensitive information collected from employee laptops accessible to anyone inside the company, according to an internal security notice seen by WIRED and three current employees familiar with the issue.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"The security notice sent out Monday indicated that “employee data across 45,000 hive tables,” had been exposed.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"Those tables included employee activity such as “full prompts and transcriptions, private conversations, people and performance data,” according to documents viewed by WIRED.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we're pausing it while we investigate,","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"The issue made “some MCI-derived data” accessible to more people than intended","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"According to WIRED, an internal security notice sent on 22 June 2026 said employee data across 45,000 hive tables had been exposed to anyone inside Meta, including \"full prompts and transcriptions, private conversations, people and performance data\". Meta said it had no indication the data was improperly accessed and paused the programme.","causal_attribution":"WIRED reports the exposure from an internal security notice and current employees, and a Meta vice president's note to staff confirmed that some MCI-derived data was accessible to more people than intended. WIRED says the data \"is believed to include\" keystrokes, mouse clicks and screen content and that it was not immediately clear whether AI played a role in the access-control failure. No source reports that anyone misused the data."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"said that the tracking program’s implementation had fallen short of the standards outlined in its privacy review","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"the security issue had been discovered on June 18 and addressed within four hours. But the initial fix didn’t stick and access to the data had to be further locked down.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"“We will only re-enable MCI when we are confident in the effectiveness of our data protection controls,”","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"WIRED reports that Meta's chief technology officer said in an internal post that the programme's implementation had fallen short of the standards in its privacy review, and that a Meta vice president told staff the issue was discovered on 18 June and addressed within four hours, that the initial fix did not hold and access had to be locked down further, and that MCI would be re-enabled only when Meta was confident in its data protection controls.","causal_attribution":"Internal statements by Meta executives as reported by WIRED from posts it saw. They are the company's own account of its conduct and stay at reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"US employees required to run software recording their keystrokes, mouse activity and screen content for AI training, initially with no opt-out","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"Captured employee activity data left accessible to anyone inside the company (discovered 18 June 2026), with Meta reporting no indication of improper access","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/meta-will-start-tracking-employees-screens-and-keystrokes-to-train-ai/","kind":"news_relay","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"reuters-mci-memo-2026-04-21"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://gizmodo.com/meta-plans-to-turn-its-employees-clicks-and-keystrokes-into-ai-training-data-2000749176","kind":"news_relay","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"reuters-mci-memo-2026-04-21"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/22/meta-tracks-employee-usage-on-google-linkedin-ai-training-project.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read from an Internet Archive capture (23 Apr 2026) because the live page returned HTTP 403.","independence_group":"cnbc-mci-internal-messages"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/meta-employee-protest-mouse-tracking-surveillance-ai-training/","kind":"original_news_reporting","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"wired-mci-reporting"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/meta-accidentally-let-employees-access-each-others-keystroke-data/","kind":"original_news_reporting","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"wired-mci-reporting"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-employee-tracking-program-following-internal-security-breach/","kind":"original_news_reporting","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"wired-mci-reporting"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://thenextweb.com/news/meta-mouse-tracking-protest-layoffs","kind":"news_relay","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"reuters-mci-protest-2026-05-12"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","privacy"],"unknowns":["Reuters' original reports (21 April memo, 12 May protest, 22 June exposure) could not be read (HTTP 401 direct, and every Internet Archive capture tried for April, May and June 2026 was an anti-bot stub). Reuters detail is taken only from the Fortune, Gizmodo and The Next Web relays.","No source states how many employees' data was in the exposed tables or how many employees are covered by MCI.","No inspected source states when the access-control misconfiguration began or how long the data was accessible. Meta's vice president said the issue was discovered on 18 June 2026 and that the first fix did not hold, and WIRED quotes the chief technology officer as saying the setup had misconfigured access control lists.","A separate complaint, Does 1 through 26 v. Meta Platforms (N.D. Cal., filed 13 July 2026), is covered in the record 2026-us-meta-26-employees-sue-alleging-ai-assisted-may-layoff-selection-penalized-protected-leave. It alleges on information and belief that keystroke and screen-content monitoring data supplied inputs to AI-assisted layoff scoring, and Meta denies that AI was used in the selection. That allegation is not part of this record, and no source inspected for this record reports a job consequence for an employee from MCI data.","Whether anyone accessed or misused the exposed data is unknown. Meta said it had no indication of improper access at the time of the pause.","Some aggregator articles say the exposed data included tax and medical records. An employee's comment cited by Reuters (via eWeek) only said personal tax and medical information is accessible through work computers, and eWeek says there was no confirmation those details were in the exposed records, so it is not recorded.","WIRED's report that Meta removed some protest posters rests on two anonymous employees and Meta declined to comment, so it is not recorded as a fact.","Whether the pause is permanent or MCI later resumed was not established beyond the 22 June 2026 announcement."],"geography":{"basis":"Fortune and WIRED report the tracking running on US employees' work computers and WIRED says only US employees are currently subject to it. The country is not taken from the company's headquarters.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Fortune, Gizmodo, CNBC (Internet Archive capture), The Next Web and three WIRED articles were read in full. Meta's statements and its executives' internal posts are the company's own account of its conduct and stay at reported. The launch and the exposure rest on separate reporting chains (Reuters via relays, CNBC's own messages, WIRED's own sources) but the exposure is inspected only through WIRED and one Meta executive's note quoted by WIRED. No employee is named.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"A Meta spokesperson said the tool captures inputs on certain applications to help train Meta's models, which is the company's own account of the AI purpose. The AI role is as the reason for the data collection. No inspected source describes an AI output, decision or action affecting an employee, and WIRED says it was not immediately clear whether AI played a role in the access-control failure.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"US: Meta records employees' keystrokes and screens to train AI agents, then leaves some of the captured data accessible company-wide and pauses the programme","summary":"From April 2026 Meta installed its Model Capability Initiative (MCI) on US employees' work computers, recording mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes and screen content on designated apps and sites so that its AI agents could learn how people use software. Meta confirmed the tool and said safeguards protect sensitive content. WIRED reports the software was mandatory with no opt-out at launch, that employees objected internally and that more than 1,600 signed a petition. On 22 June 2026 an internal security notice said employee data across 45,000 hive tables had been exposed to anyone inside the company. Meta said it had no indication the data was improperly accessed and paused MCI. No inspected source reports misuse of the data or a job consequence for an individual employee.","incidentDate":"2026-04-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-06-22","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-04-21","aiSystem":"Model Capability Initiative (MCI): Meta's internal software capturing employee computer inputs and screen content to train AI agents","aiProduct":"Meta Model Capability Initiative","aiCompany":"Meta Platforms","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["loss_of_autonomy","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"WIRED reports that Meta made the recording software mandatory for US employees, with no opt-out at launch, and that in June 2026 an internal notice said employee data across 45,000 hive tables was exposed to anyone inside the company. Meta said it had no indication the data was improperly accessed. No inspected source reports misuse of the data or a consequence for an individual employee.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"unclear","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"No inspected source counts employees harmed. The programme covers US employees, the exposure notice gives no number of affected employees, and the 1,600 petition signers are not counted as harmed people. Numeric zeros are placeholders.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wired.com/story/meta-accidentally-let-employees-access-each-others-keystroke-data/","primarySourceLabel":"WIRED (22 Jun 2026)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T21:16:02.93024+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:45.697526+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2026"]},{"id":"2026-elephant-and-castle-sainsburys-facewatch-shopper-told-to-leave","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"says he was in his local store on January 27 when staff approached him, asked him to leave and took his shopping.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"he was told to abandon his shopping and escorted outside","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"He described how one of the staff members had looked between him and a phone in her hand, before nodding to her colleagues.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"They had the security on my left hand side, and two managers on my right hand side so I was surrounded in the aisle.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"approached by three Sainsbury's staff, including a security guard","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"He reported being approached by three store managers holding smartphones.","relation":"context","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"A shopper at the Sainsbury's store in Elephant and Castle, London, was approached by store staff, told to leave and escorted out, leaving the shopping behind. The BBC reports three staff including a security guard, one of whom looked between the shopper and a phone before nodding to colleagues.","causal_attribution":"The shopper's own account, given separately to the BBC, LBC and PA. Sainsbury's confirmed it approached the wrong person and apologised. Outlets differ on the staff count (three staff including a security guard in the BBC report, security plus two managers in the LBC report, three store managers holding smartphones in The Register)."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"says he was in his local store on January 27 when staff approached him, asked him to leave and took his shopping.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"30 Jan 2026, 14:21 Updated: 30 Jan 2026","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"announced in January that it would be expanding its use of the Facewatch software to include five London stores - Dalston, Elephant and Castle, Ladbroke Grove, Camden and Whitechapel.","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"was asked to put down his shopping basket and leave his local Sainsbury’s store after being told he had come up on the Facewatch system in February.","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"The event took place on 27 January 2026.","causal_attribution":"Only the PA copy gives a day, and it gives no year. The LBC report dated 30 January 2026 and the BBC report of 5 February 2026 (store added to the Facewatch rollout in January) place it in 2026. A Guardian feature of 3 May 2026 says February, which conflicts with the LBC publication date. The record uses the PA date."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"staff informed him he had been flagged by their facial recognition system.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"When he asked why, he was directed to a poster in the shop's front window about the use of facial recognition technology and told to contact Facewatch.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"would only direct him to a QR code leading to the website of the firm Facewatch","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Staff told the shopper the facial recognition system had flagged the shopper, gave no other explanation, and pointed to a poster or QR code about Facewatch with instructions to contact that company.","causal_attribution":"The shopper's own account. The Guardian says the supermarket staff were unable to explain why the shopper was being told to leave."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Sainsbury's told The Register that its Facewatch system correctly identified a man on its offenders' database, and alerted store managers who manually review each flag.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"However, in responding to the alert, the manager approached the wrong person","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"This incident arose from a case of human error in-store, where a member of staff approached the wrong customer.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"verified that he was not on our database and had not been subject to any alerts generated by Facewatch.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"In reality, it was another shopper flagged down by the technology","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Sainsbury's told The Register that its Facewatch system correctly identified a man on its offenders' database and alerted store managers, and that the manager then approached the wrong person. Facewatch said a member of staff approached the wrong customer and that the shopper was not on its database and had not been subject to any alert generated by Facewatch.","causal_attribution":"Sainsbury's and Facewatch describing their own conduct and system. The inspected sources do not include a check by anyone outside the two companies. Facewatch also told the shopper that it \"did not play any part\" in the approach (see c5), and no source reconciles that with the Sainsbury's account of a system alert for another person."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"he had to send a copy of his passport and photo of himself.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"the company confirmed he was not on its database, and told him \"Facewatch did not play any part in [him] being approached at the store\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"he was told to send in a picture of himself and a photograph of his passport before the firm confirmed it had no record of him on its database.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"To find out whether it held a record, the shopper had to send Facewatch a copy of a passport and a photo. Facewatch then confirmed the shopper was not on its database and that it did not play any part in the shopper being approached.","causal_attribution":"The shopper's account and Facewatch's statement as relayed by the BBC. The Guardian and BBC both rest on the shopper's interview."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"He was redirected to Sainsbury's, which apologised and offered him a £75 shopping voucher.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Sainsbury's told the BBC that management in the Elephant and Castle store would be receiving additional training.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"with additional training provided after this incident to ensure our safeguards are consistently followed.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Sainsbury's apologised, offered the shopper a 75 pound voucher and said management at the store would receive additional training.","causal_attribution":"Sainsbury's statements to the BBC and the Guardian and the shopper's account of the voucher."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"told LBC he was deeply \"embarrassed\" and “intimidated” as he was booted out of his local Sainsbury’s.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"You feel horrible, you feel like a criminal and you don’t even understand why.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"You felt quite helpless in the situation because you’re just thrown from pillar to post","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"he now has “no interest” in shopping in Sainsbury’s","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"The shopper reports being embarrassed and intimidated, feeling like a criminal without understanding why, feeling helpless while being passed between Sainsbury's and Facewatch, and having no interest in shopping at Sainsbury's afterwards.","causal_attribution":"The shopper's own statements to LBC, PA and the Guardian. No independent assessment of the effect was inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"Told to leave a supermarket after a facial recognition alert was raised in the store, then asked to send a passport copy and photo to the vendor to confirm no record existed. Reported embarrassment and feeling like a criminal.","claim_id":"c7","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lxdn4w2g3o","kind":"news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"shopper-account-and-company-statements-sainsburys"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/sainsburys-apologises-facial-recognition-london-news-5HjdRdG_2/","kind":"news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"shopper-account-and-company-statements-sainsburys"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/05/london-man-sainsburys-facial-recognition-facewatch","kind":"news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"shopper-account-and-company-statements-sainsburys"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/sainsburys_/","kind":"news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"shopper-account-and-company-statements-sainsburys"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/national/25830692.sainsburys-shopper-wrongly-misidentified-staff-says-felt-like-criminal/","kind":"news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"PA News Agency copy on a Newsquest local site (Enfield Independent). The page carries no date.","independence_group":"shopper-account-and-company-statements-sainsburys"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/guilty-until-proven-innocent-shoppers-falsely-identified-by-facial-recognition-struggle-to-clear-their-name","kind":"news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"shopper-account-and-company-statements-sainsburys"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the system matched the shopper's face at any point is not established. The account that the alert concerned another person rests on Sainsbury's and Facewatch statements and on the Guardian phrase \"It is understood\". No source outside the two companies confirms it.","Facewatch told the shopper it \"did not play any part\" in the approach, while Sainsbury's told The Register that the system alerted managers to a match for another person. The sources do not reconcile the two statements.","The event date rests on the PA copy alone. A Guardian feature of 3 May 2026 says February, and the LBC report dated 30 January 2026 rules that out. The PA copy carries no year and the year comes from the LBC and BBC publication dates.","The LBC text refers to the Old Kent Road shop in two passages. The BBC, PA and the Sainsbury's statement name the Elephant and Castle store, which the record uses.","Whether the person for whom the alert was raised was an offender, and what the staff compared, is not stated.","Sainsbury's says this was the first time a store manager misidentified a customer after the system issued an alert (BBC and The Register). That is the company's own claim and was not checked.","All inspected sources trace to the shopper's interviews and to Sainsbury's and Facewatch statements, so no claim is corroborated."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: a Sainsbury's store in Elephant and Castle, south London (BBC, PA, Sainsbury's statement). Affected person: the LBC report says the shopper has lived in Elephant and Castle for 15 years. No court.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an ordinary adverse experience with an automated system. The BBC, LBC, Guardian and PA reports and The Register were read in full from saved bodies and treated as one reporting chain (the shopper's interviews plus company statements). Claims stay at reported status and company statements are attributed. The shopper spoke publicly under their own name and is not named in this record.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Sainsbury's says the store's Facewatch system generated an alert for a different person. Sainsbury's and Facewatch say a store staff member approached the wrong customer. Staff told the shopper that facial recognition had flagged the shopper, the BBC reports a staff member looking between the shopper and a phone before nodding to colleagues, and the Guardian reports that a staff member appeared to affirm that the shopper was the person pictured on a device. Facewatch says it held no record or alert for the shopper. The system therefore did not make a claim about the shopper on the companies' account, and the relation between the system and the shopper is recorded as unknown. Both companies attribute the error to human handling of the alert.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"London: shopper told to leave a Sainsbury's store after a Facewatch facial recognition alert, which Sainsbury's says concerned a different person","summary":"A shopper at the Sainsbury's store in Elephant and Castle, London, told PA that staff approached the shopper on 27 January, asked the shopper to leave and took the shopping. The BBC and LBC report that staff pointed to a sign about the store's Facewatch facial recognition system and told the shopper to contact Facewatch. Sainsbury's said the system had flagged a different person. Sainsbury's and Facewatch said a staff member approached the wrong customer, and Facewatch said it held no alert or record for the shopper. To confirm this, the shopper sent Facewatch a passport copy and a photo. Sainsbury's apologised, offered a 75 pound voucher and said store management would receive additional training. The shopper reports embarrassment and feeling like a criminal. Both companies attribute the error to store staff.","incidentDate":"2026-01-27","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-01-30","aiSystem":"Facewatch live facial recognition alerts (deployed by Sainsbury's)","aiProduct":"Facewatch facial recognition","aiCompany":"Facewatch","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The shopper told LBC and PA that being told to leave the store was embarrassing and intimidating and left the shopper feeling like a criminal. The shopper also reports having to send a passport copy and a photo to Facewatch to establish that no record existed.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One shopper reported being told to leave and distressed. The other person for whom the system reportedly raised an alert is not reported as harmed and is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"other","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lxdn4w2g3o","primarySourceLabel":"BBC News (5 Feb 2026): Sainsbury's ejects man misidentified as offender","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T21:15:49.113797+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:36.308639+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2026"]},{"id":"2026-bengaluru-mahalakshmi-layout-deepfake-leaders-forex-investment-scam","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Sudha Murty and Anant Ambani to be genuine, a city resident fell victim to an investment scam and lost Rs 7.66 lakh.'; 'came across the videos on Facebook on July 10. The videos purportedly showed Modi and others promoting online investments.'; 'Between July 10 and July 22, he transferred Rs 7.6 lakh to the bank accounts the suspects shared in multiple transactions.'; 'The victim clicked on a link given in the videos and wired Rs 22,000 to start his investment journey.'; 'The callers identified themselves as representatives of ‘One Two Markets’ company and told him that he could earn more if he got into forex trading.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'A 39-year-old Bengaluru resident allegedly lost ₹7.66 lakh after falling victim to an investment scam promoted through deepfake videos featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Sudha Murty and Anant Ambani.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to his FIR, a 39-year-old Mahalakshmi Layout resident saw Facebook videos on 10 July 2026 purportedly showing Narendra Modi and others promoting online investments, believed the deepfake videos to be genuine, clicked a link and, between 10 and 22 July, transferred about Rs 7.6 lakh (Rs 7.66 lakh in total) to accounts supplied by callers from a purported forex company.","causal_attribution":"The complainant's FIR as reported by Deccan Herald and repeated by Mangalore Today; the deepfake characterisation is the reports', without technical confirmation."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the victim reached out to the police and an FIR was registered on September 19. A probe is ongoing.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'An FIR was registered on September 19, and an investigation is underway.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"An FIR was registered on 19 September 2026 and a probe is ongoing.","causal_attribution":"Deccan Herald and Mangalore Today (one reporting chain)."}],"effects":[{"label":"a Bengaluru man lost Rs 7.66 lakh to a forex scheme he joined after deepfake videos of public figures appeared to endorse it","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/bengaluru-man-falls-for-pm-modi-anant-ambani-deepfakes-loses-over-rs-7-lakh-4160183","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (Deccan Herald, DHNS, 25 September 2026; English). The visible page is truncated; the full article was read from its JSON-LD articleBody, which also embeds a related-article headline (a different Sitharaman-deepfake case) that is not used.","independence_group":"bengaluru-fir-deccanherald"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.mangaloretoday.com/headlines/Bengaluru-man-loses-Rs-7-66-lakh-after-falling-for-Modi-Anant-Ambani-deepfake-investment-videos.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 via the site's print view of the same article (Mangalore Today, 26 September 2026; English). Repeats the Deccan Herald FIR account; treated as derivative.","independence_group":"bengaluru-fir-deccanherald"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Which police station registered the FIR and under which sections.","Whether the videos were examined and what tool made them; the deepfake label is the reports'.","Who operated the scheme and where; the +44 numbers do not establish location.","Whether any money has been traced or frozen."],"geography":{"basis":"The complainant lives in Mahalakshmi Layout, Bengaluru, and the FIR was registered in Bengaluru (Deccan Herald). The callers used +44 numbers, which does not establish where they were. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an everyday financial adverse experience: an unnamed complainant lost Rs 7.66 lakh after deepfake videos of public figures lured him into a forex scheme, reported by Deccan Herald and repeated by Mangalore Today (one chain; claims reported).","reviewed_on":"2026-09-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Deccan Herald's own lede calls the Facebook videos deepfakes of Narendra Modi, Nirmala Sitharaman, Sudha Murty and Anant Ambani. The FIR account it reports says only that the videos 'purportedly showed Modi and others promoting online investments'. No technical examination is reported. The relation is recorded as unknown: the AI videos impersonated third parties (public figures) to lure the complainant and did not depict, address or act for him in any way the reports establish; his dealings after clicking the link were with human callers.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Bengaluru (Karnataka): a 39-year-old man reports losing Rs 7.66 lakh to a forex 'investment' scheme after deepfake Facebook videos of Narendra Modi, Nirmala Sitharaman, Sudha Murty and Anant Ambani appeared to promote it (July 2026; FIR 19 September 2026)","summary":"According to an FIR reported by Deccan Herald, a 39-year-old resident of Mahalakshmi Layout, Bengaluru, saw videos on Facebook on 10 July 2026 that appeared to show Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Sudha Murty and Anant Ambani promoting online investments. Believing them genuine, he clicked a link, paid Rs 22,000, and was then called from UK (+44) numbers by people claiming to represent a company called 'One Two Markets', who opened a forex account in his name. Between 10 and 22 July he transferred about Rs 7.6 lakh in several payments; when he tried to withdraw, the callers demanded more money. He went to the police and an FIR was registered on 19 September; a probe is under way. Deccan Herald calls the videos deepfakes; no technical examination of them is reported.","incidentDate":"2026-07-10","incidentEndDate":"2026-07-22","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-25","aiSystem":"Deepfake videos (tool unidentified) depicting public figures promoting an investment scheme on Facebook","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A Bengaluru man lost Rs 7.66 lakh to a forex investment scam he entered after deepfake Facebook videos of national leaders and business figures appeared to promote it (his FIR, as reported by Deccan Herald and Mangalore Today).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the 39-year-old complainant (Deccan Herald; Mangalore Today).","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN-KA","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/bengaluru-man-falls-for-pm-modi-anant-ambani-deepfakes-loses-over-rs-7-lakh-4160183","primarySourceLabel":"Deccan Herald (DHNS), 25 September 2026: Bengaluru man falls for PM Modi, Anant Ambani deepfakes, loses over Rs 7 lakh","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-27T03:39:41.752411+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:27.815383+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","investment-scam","forex","facebook","celebrity-impersonation","financial-fraud","india","karnataka","bengaluru"]},{"id":"2026-gisi-infopro-digital-creteil-ai-dismissals-suspended","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 12: 'ORDONNONS la suspension du projet de réorganisation de la Société GISI et du projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction) en découlant, incluant la suspension des processus de reclassement, jusqu'à ce qu'il soit procédé à la réalisation des tests en situation réelle et à l'élaboration de numéros 0'; 'PRONONÇONS à l'encontre de la société GISI une astreinte provisoire de 8 000 euros par jour de retard pendant une durée de trois mois'; 'FAIT AU PALAIS DE JUSTICE DE CRETEIL, le 15 septembre 2026'. Page 1: 'ORDONNANCE DU : 15 Septembre 2026', 'N° RG 26/00991'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"la suspension du projet de réorganisation (...) et du projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction)\"; \"par jour de retard sur trois mois\"; \"En revanche, les dommages et intérêts réclamés ont été rejetés.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"\"La justice a suspendu mardi en référé un projet de suppression de 8 postes au sein du groupe de presse Gisi (L'Usine nouvelle, LSA, L'Argus de l'assurance...), en lien avec le déploiement de l'intelligence artificielle\"; \"Il a par conséquent suspendu le plan jusqu'à la réalisation de tests complets. Contactée par l'AFP, la direction de Gisi a indiqué se réserver la possibilité de faire appel\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 15 September 2026 the Créteil judicial court, sitting in référé on the application of Gisi's CSE, ordered the suspension of Gisi's reorganisation project and of the resulting collective dismissal of the eight secrétaires de rédaction, including the redeployment processes, until real-situation tests and pilot issues confirm what share of sub-editor tasks the generative-AI tool can take over; it imposed a provisional penalty of 8,000 euros per day of delay for three months, refused the damages provision and awarded 2,000 euros in costs.","causal_attribution":"Established by the court order itself and confirmed by L'Informé and AFP, which each consulted the decision."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 11: 'représenter un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés de la société GISI'; 'la société GISI ne justifie pas de la mise en oeuvre des dispositifs de prévention du risque lié à l'introduction de la nouvelle technologie d'IA générative alors que dans le DUERP 2025 qu'elle produit (pièce 5) elle identifie 3 risques en lien avec l'introduction de l'IA (stress lié à l'insécurité de l'emploi lié à l'intelligence artificielle ; changements organisationnels liés à l'introduction de l'intelligence artificielle ; absence de repères liés à l'utilisation de l'IA et manque d'acculturation) mais ne les a pas côtés'. Page 10: 'sans aucune participation des salariés concernés, ni réalisation en situation réelle'; 'L'expert pronostique un risque d'intensification majeur du travail des rédacteurs'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"\"Le tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, saisi par le Comité social et économique (CSE) de Gisi\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"\"des risques de surcharge de travail (...) et une baisse de la qualité du travail fourni, de l'autonomie et du conflit de valeur, de la perte de sens et de l'altération du collectif\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The judge found that implementing the generative-AI project and the dismissal of all sub-editor posts on an approximate evaluation, without real-situation testing or participation of the staff concerned, presented a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of Gisi staff, and that Gisi had not shown prevention measures although its 2025 risk register listed three AI-related risks including stress linked to AI-related job insecurity.","causal_attribution":"The court's own finding; it concerns a risk to health created by the way the AI-based reorganisation was to be deployed, not an individually diagnosed injury."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 2: 'La société GISI emploie 127 salariés dont 92 journalistes'; 'un outil dénommé DIGI'; 'Le projet de la société GISI prévoit la suppression de 8 postes de secrétaires de rédaction (SR) et la création de 2 postes de chefs d'édition reprenant une partie des missions des SR, à savoir celles ne pouvant être automatisées par l'outil DIGI'; 'Le 4 mai 2026 le CSE était convié à une réunion dite R0 de présentation du projet'; 'Le 12 mai 2026 la société GISI convoquait le CSE à une première réunion d'information/consultation sur deux projets'; 'le CSE de la société GISI obtenait le 15 juillet 2025 une ordonnance de référé'; 'Par un arrêt du 21 mai 2026 la cour d'appel de Paris confirmait l'ordonnance de référé du 15 juillet 2025'. Page 10: 'la société GISI a évalué à environ 70 % la part des tâches des SR réalisées par l'outil IA'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"Au sein de Gisi, 8 postes de SR sont menacés\"; \"la société estimant que 70% des tâches des SR peuvent être réalisées par l'IA\"; \"Des reclassements ont été proposés à tous les secrétaires de rédaction\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"\"avait déjà contrainte à ouvrir un processus d\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Gisi (127 staff, 92 journalists) planned to remove its eight sub-editor posts and create two chef d'édition posts for the tasks its in-house generative-AI tool DIGI could not automate, estimating that the tool would perform about 70% of sub-editor tasks; the project was presented to the CSE on 4 May 2026 and consultation opened on 12 May 2026, after an earlier July 2025 order (confirmed on appeal on 21 May 2026) had required consultation before AI tools were used.","causal_attribution":"Facts recited in the court order and reported by AFP from the company."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"Les quelque 250 journalistes de ces 26 titres au total avaient lancé une grève au printemps pour s'opposer au projet de leur propriétaire de supprimer 19 postes de secrétaires de rédaction\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"\"Nous allons poursuivre les tests et faire des numéros complets\"; \"la direction de Gisi a indiqué se réserver la possibilité de faire appel\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"\"nous suspendons le projet le temps de finaliser ces tests\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Some 250 journalists across Infopro Digital's 26 titles struck in spring 2026 against the owner's plan to cut 19 sub-editor posts because of the AI deployment; after the order Gisi's president said the tests would continue with full pilot issues and that the company reserved the right to appeal.","causal_attribution":"AFP reporting of the strike and of management's reaction; L'Informé carries management's written reply."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"with five of the eight affected journalists having already received pre-dismissal interview letters\"; \"newsroom positions accompanied by training were offered to all affected editorial secretaries, although some declined them\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, reports that five of the eight affected sub-editors had already received pre-dismissal interview letters and that Gisi had offered three chef d'édition roles and one technical editor-in-chief position, with newsroom posts offered to all affected sub-editors, some of whom declined.","causal_attribution":"Secondary summary attributing the detail to Stratégies (not readable from this host); reported only. Its count of three chef d'édition roles differs from the two posts in the order."}],"effects":[{"label":"eight sub-editors faced collective dismissal in favour of a generative-AI tool; a court found a serious risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://linforme.files.sirius.press/files/1789566133007-SECURISE_ordonnance%20du%2015%20septembre%202026-2.pdf","kind":"court_order","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Court record: Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, section des référés, ordonnance de référé of 15 September 2026, RG 26/00991, CSE de la société Gisi v. SAS Gisi, published by L'Informé (watermarked, 12 scanned pages without a text layer). Pages 1, 2, 10, 11 and 12 read visually in French on 2026-09-19; pages 3-9 not read. Quotations are transcribed from the page images.","independence_group":"tj-creteil-order"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.linforme.com/medias-culture/article/lsa-l-usine-nouvelle-la-justice-retoque-le-remplacement-des-journalistes-par-l-ia_8645.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-09-19 (L'Informé, 15 Sep 2026, updated 16 Sep with Infopro Digital's reaction). The served page truncates the opening paragraph; the court's findings, the penalty, the union reaction and management's reply are readable. L'Informé published the order.","independence_group":"linforme"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.cbnews.fr/medias/justice-suspend-projet-suppressions-postes-liees-ia-chez-usine-nouvelle-lsa","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-09-19 (CB News, 16 Sep 2026, AFP dispatch). AFP states it consulted the decision; carries Gisi president Isabelle André's comments.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/emploi/vie-de-bureau/un-risque-grave-et-caracterise-sur-la-sante-physique-et-mentale-la-justice-suspend-un-projet-de-suppressions-de-postes-liees-a-l-ia-dans-les-medias-du-groupe-gisi_AD-202609160444.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-09-19 (BFM Business with AFP, 16 Sep 2026). Same AFP dispatch with a definition of the sub-editor role.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.liberation.fr/economie/medias/la-justice-suspend-un-projet-de-suppressions-de-postes-liees-a-lia-dans-le-groupe-de-presse-infopro-digital-20260916_H7LH5VX6A5EDBFWSDNNM3DPB3U/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-09-19 via the MSN content API copy (Libération, 16 Sep 2026, AFP). Same dispatch, adding the staff representative and SNJ-CGT reactions given to L'Informé.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://dig.watch/updates/french-court-ai-job-cuts-journalists","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-19 (Digital Watch Observatory, 17 Sep 2026). A secondary summary that attributes the pre-dismissal-letter and redeployment details to Stratégies, whose own article returns 403 to this host.","independence_group":"strategies-via-digital-watch"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","justice"],"unknowns":["Whether Gisi has appealed the order.","Whether the pre-dismissal procedure for the sub-editors has been formally withdrawn and whether all eight remain employed; individual health effects are not reported.","Pages 3-9 of the order (the parties' submissions) were not read.","The status of Groupe Moniteur's separate redundancy plan (PSE) covering the remaining sub-editor posts.","Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, reports three chef d'édition roles offered; the order and AFP record two chef d'édition posts. The difference (offers versus created posts, or a Stratégies error) is unresolved."],"geography":{"basis":"Gisi is registered in Créteil with its seat in Gentilly (Val-de-Marne) per the order; the staff work for its French titles; court: Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil.","court_countries":["FR"],"event_countries":["FR"],"affected_person_countries":["FR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a work-lane case of an institutional AI decision with concrete consequences for identified staff: eight sub-editors were subject to a collective dismissal plan justified by a generative-AI tool, and a court found the deployment presented a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff and suspended it. The court order (primary record), L'Informé and AFP copies read; the affected people are unnamed.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-19"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The court order and AFP identify the generative-AI tool (DIGI) as the basis of the reorganisation and of the dismissal of the eight sub-editor posts, and the court's health-risk finding concerns deploying that tool without real-situation testing. The tool did not communicate with, decide about or depict the affected people; it was to take over their tasks, so none of the listed relations applies and the relation is recorded as unknown.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Créteil, France: a court suspended Gisi's (Infopro Digital) plan to cut eight sub-editor posts in favour of a generative-AI tool, finding a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff","summary":"Gisi, the Infopro Digital subsidiary publishing L'Usine nouvelle, LSA and L'Argus de l'assurance (127 staff, 92 journalists), presented to its works council (CSE) on 4 May 2026 a reorganisation built around 'DIGI', an in-house generative-AI editorial tool, and on 12 May 2026 opened consultation on the reorganisation and on the resulting collective dismissal of its eight secrétaires de rédaction (sub-editors), to be replaced by two chefs d'édition, on the company's estimate that the tool would take over about 70% of sub-editor tasks. Some 250 journalists across Infopro Digital's 26 titles had struck in spring 2026 against a group-wide plan to cut 19 sub-editor posts, and according to Digital Watch (citing Stratégies) five of the eight Gisi sub-editors had received pre-dismissal interview letters. The CSE, relying on an expert report, went to the Créteil judicial court in July. On 15 September 2026 the référé judge found that deploying the plan without real-situation testing presented 'un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés', ordered the suspension of the reorganisation and the collective dismissal (including the redeployment processes) until real-situation tests and full pilot issues are produced, with a provisional penalty of 8,000 euros per day for three months, and refused the damages provision. Gisi said it would continue the tests and reserved the right to appeal.","incidentDate":"2026-05-04","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"product_change","reportedDate":"2026-09-15","aiSystem":"'DIGI', Gisi's in-house generative-AI editorial tool (transcription of interviews, drafting and correction help; planned spelling, grammar and typography correction, editorial-coherence and fact-reliability checks)","aiProduct":"DIGI editorial tool","aiCompany":"Gisi (Groupe Industrie Service Infos), a subsidiary of Infopro Digital (deployer of the in-house 'DIGI' generative-AI tool)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Eight sub-editors at Gisi faced collective dismissal because a generative-AI tool was to take over most of their tasks (five had received pre-dismissal interview letters, per Digital Watch citing Stratégies), and a court found that the plan, deployed without real-situation testing, presented a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff; the court suspended the dismissals pending tests.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":8,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"The order suspends 'le projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction)' and AFP reports eight sub-editor posts threatened at Gisi; Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, says five of the eight had received pre-dismissal interview letters. The court's health-risk finding extends to 'plusieurs catégories de salariés' without a number. Eight counted plus unquantified others: partial.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"FR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"lawsuit_ongoing","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://linforme.files.sirius.press/files/1789566133007-SECURISE_ordonnance%20du%2015%20septembre%202026-2.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, ordonnance de référé of 15 September 2026 (RG 26/00991), CSE de la société Gisi v. SAS Gisi, as published by L'Informé","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-20T03:19:47.791082+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:37.711237+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["work","journalism","layoffs","generative-ai","newsroom-automation","france","creteil","labour-court","occupational-health","institutional-use"]},{"id":"2026-boca-raton-lyft-ai-damage-claim","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'She goes, \"Dad, that's AI, you could see the Gemini logo on the bottom right-hand side of one of the photos\"'; the $75 damage fee and the beach trip.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'A Boca Raton father says a Lyft driver used artificial intelligence to fabricate photos of car damage and charge his daughters a $75 damage fee'; 'that's the AI hologram on the photo'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'his daughter Ella spotted an AI logo in the bottom righthand corner of the photo'; the $75 charge and the emergency-room context.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 16 May 2026, after a Lyft ride from Red Reef Park in Boca Raton, Bert Gor was charged a $75 damage fee; the driver's proof photo carried a Google Gemini watermark that his daughter spotted, showing it was AI-generated.","causal_attribution":"Reported identically in three independent interviews with the family."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Lyft statement: 'We have reviewed the rider's concerns, offered reimbursement, and permanently removed the driver from the platform.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Lyft statement to ABC News: 'offered reimbursement, and permanently removed the driver from the platform.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'the Lyft rep agreed that the images were created using AI, apologized, and blocked the driver'; WPBF statement: 'offered reimbursement, unpaired the rider and driver, and addressed the matter directly with the driver.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Lyft agreed the damage photo was AI-generated, apologised, reimbursed the $75 charge and removed the driver from its platform.","causal_attribution":"Lyft statements to three outlets; the WPBF wording (unpaired/addressed) differs slightly from the WPTV/ABC wording (permanently removed)."}],"effects":[{"label":"father wrongly charged a $75 damage fee and daughters falsely accused of vandalism, on an AI-generated photo; Lyft reversed the charge and removed the driver","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.wpbf.com/article/lyft-driver-ai-falsely-accuse-damaging-car/71341981","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 via the Internet Archive capture 20260915020212 (WPBF live returns HTTP 451 to EEA requests); datePublished 2026-05-18. Original WPBF 25 interview with Bert Gor.","independence_group":"wpbf"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.wptv.com/news/local-news/our-community/boca-raton-delray-beach/boca-raton-father-catches-lyft-driver-using-ai-to-fake-car-damage-driver-removed","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2026-05-21). WPTV interview with Gor; notes parts of the WPTV story were AI-assisted and staff-reviewed.","independence_group":"wptv"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://abcnews.com/GMA/News/father-daughter-speak-after-lyft-driver-accused-ai/story?id=133144373","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2026-05-20). ABC Good Morning America interview with Bert and Ella Gor; carries the Lyft statement that the driver was permanently removed.","independence_group":"abc"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","finance"],"unknowns":["The driver is not named and faced no reported police or legal action.","Whether Lyft changed its damage-dispute review process is not established.","How many other riders were affected by similar fabricated claims is not quantified beyond Gor's Facebook responses."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: a Lyft ride ending at the Gor family home in Boca Raton, Florida (WPBF, WPTV). Affected people are Boca Raton residents. No court.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an ordinary adverse experience involving an AI-fabricated artifact: a named father and his teenage daughters were wrongly charged and accused on the strength of an AI-generated damage photo, and the company reversed the charge and removed the driver. Low severity; three independent interview-based chains.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-17"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The family identified a Google Gemini watermark on the damage photo, and Lyft agreed the image was AI-generated. The AI was used by a third party (the driver) to fabricate evidence; it did not communicate with, depict or make an autonomous claim about the affected family, so the person relation is recorded as unknown.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Boca Raton, Florida: a Lyft driver used an AI-generated photo to charge a father a false $75 damage fee after his daughters' ride","summary":"On 16 May 2026 two teenage sisters (14 and 15) and a friend took a Lyft home from Red Reef Park in Boca Raton, Florida. Their father, Bert Gor, was then charged a $75 damage fee after the driver told Lyft's customer service the girls had left a mess. When Gor asked for proof, the photo he was sent carried a Google Gemini watermark that one daughter recognised, showing the image had been AI-generated. Lyft agreed the image was fake, reimbursed the charge and permanently removed the driver from its platform.","incidentDate":"2026-05-16","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-05-18","aiSystem":"AI image generation (a Google Gemini-watermarked image used by a Lyft driver to fabricate a damage-claim photo)","aiProduct":"Gemini (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A father was charged a fabricated $75 damage fee and his two teenage daughters were falsely accused of vandalising a rideshare vehicle, on the strength of an AI-generated photo; Lyft reversed the charge and removed the driver after the family identified the AI watermark.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Three identified affected people: Bert Gor (charged the $75 fee) and his two teenage daughters (falsely accused of leaving a mess). A friend also rode but is not reported as charged or accused. Documented minimum of three.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.wpbf.com/article/lyft-driver-ai-falsely-accuse-damaging-car/71341981","primarySourceLabel":"WPBF 25 News (West Palm Beach), 18 May 2026: Boca Raton father says Lyft driver used AI to fabricate a damage photo (interview with Bert Gor; Lyft statement)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-17T03:27:40.160475+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:29.168447+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-generated-image","deepfake-evidence","rideshare","lyft","gemini","fabricated-evidence","united-states","florida","consumer","everyday-life"]},{"id":"2026-arnold-sainsburys-facewatch-misidentification","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The incident happened on 6 August as Arnold... was waiting for a staff member to approve an alcohol purchase'; '\"The staff member said I'd been identified by the AI, and the cameras had flagged me,\" he told BBC London'; 'After being escorted off the premises, Arnold said he had looked back from the entrance and saw an overhead CCTV monitor alert with a red circle surrounding his face.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"On 6 August 2026 at Sainsbury's East Dulwich store, two managers told Arnold he could not be served because of an incident earlier in the week, a staff member said he had been identified by the AI, and he was escorted out; he saw a monitor alert circling his face as he left.","causal_attribution":"Arnold's own account to the BBC; the retailer confirms the wrongful challenge and apologised."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Sainsbury's head office contacted Arnold the following day to apologise, maintaining the incident had been caused by \"human error\" rather than software failure'; spokesperson: 'The incident was caused by human error, not the facial recognition technology'; Facewatch: 'A correct alert was sent to the retailer, but was subsequently subject to human error in the way it was handled in store'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Sainsbury's apologised the next day, attributed the mistake to human error rather than the facial-recognition technology, and paused the Facewatch system at the Dulwich store while it investigates; Facewatch said a correct alert had been sent and was mishandled in store.","causal_attribution":"Company statements as quoted by the BBC; they contest the system's role, which is why AI involvement is recorded as disputed."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Warren Rajah was ordered out of a branch in Elephant and Castle","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"after being wrongly flagged by the same Facewatch software","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"In September, Warren Rajah","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"says he was in his local store on January 27 when staff approached him, asked him to leave and took his shopping.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"But he was mistaken for another person who was in the system as an offender and was also in the store at the time.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"30 Jan 2026, 14:21 Updated: 30 Jan 2026","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"was walking round with a shopping basket at the Old Kent Road shop when he was suddenly confronted by staff","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"5 February 2026","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"the company confirmed he was not on its database","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A second shopper, Warren Rajah, says he was ordered out of a Sainsbury's in the Elephant and Castle area on 27 January 2026 (the day is from his account to PA; the year is inferred from the LBC and BBC publication dates). The BBC's August 2026 article says he was wrongly flagged by the same Facewatch software, and dates the ejection to 'September'. The BBC (5 February 2026), LBC and PA reports say the store approached the wrong customer after an alert concerning another shopper, and that Facewatch confirmed he was not on its database.","causal_attribution":"Reported by the BBC as background to the same deployment; not part of this case count. The August BBC sentence restates the BBC's own 5 February report and is not independent of it. The BBC's August article says 'September', which conflicts with the PA, LBC and BBC February reports; the January day rests on the PA copy alone (the shopper's own statement, with no year shown), and the year comes from the LBC and BBC publication dates. LBC places the ejection at the Old Kent Road branch, while the BBC, PA and the Sainsbury's statement say Elephant and Castle. Whether the software flagged him is disputed: the BBC August article says it did, while Sainsbury's, Facewatch, PA, LBC and the BBC 5 February report say the alert concerned another shopper and staff approached the wrong customer."}],"effects":[{"label":"publicly treated as a shoplifter and escorted out after a facial-recognition alert; retailer apologised","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddjlmeqjgyo","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-08-17; BBC London; Arnold's interview, Sainsbury's and Facewatch statements, Big Brother Watch comment).","independence_group":"bbc"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lxdn4w2g3o","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-29 (published 5 February 2026; BBC report on the Elephant and Castle shopper). Saved by the historical-2026 lane.","independence_group":"shopper-account-and-company-statements-sainsburys-elephant-and-castle"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/sainsburys-apologises-facial-recognition-london-news-5HjdRdG_2/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-29 (dated 30 January 2026; LBC exclusive with the shopper). Saved by the historical-2026 lane.","independence_group":"shopper-account-and-company-statements-sainsburys-elephant-and-castle"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/national/25830692.sainsburys-shopper-wrongly-misidentified-staff-says-felt-like-criminal/","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-29 (PA News Agency copy on a local site; the page date and year are not shown). Saved by the historical-2026 lane.","independence_group":"shopper-account-and-company-statements-sainsburys-elephant-and-castle"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Whether the system's alert concerned Arnold's face or another person's, and what the staff saw on the alert, is not established; the retailer and vendor say the alert was correct and mishandled.","The outcome of Sainsbury's investigation and whether the system was reinstated at the store are not reported.","Arnold's place of residence is not stated.","No second reporting chain about Arnold's own account was inspected; the BBC account is the only source read for it.","LBC places the Elephant and Castle ejection at the Old Kent Road branch, while the BBC, PA and the Sainsbury's statement say Elephant and Castle.","The BBC's August 2026 article dates the Elephant and Castle ejection to 'September', which conflicts with the PA report (27 January), the LBC report (30 January 2026) and the BBC report (5 February 2026). The 27 January date rests on the PA copy alone, which carries no year; the year comes from the LBC and BBC publication dates."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: Sainsbury's East Dulwich superstore, London (BBC London). Affected person: a London-based promoter working next door to the store; the BBC does not state his residence, so his country rests on the event setting. No court.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an ordinary adverse experience with an automated system: a named shopper, in his own BBC interview, describes being publicly treated as a shoplifter after a facial-recognition alert, and the retailer confirms the wrongful challenge and apologised while disputing the system's role. Low severity; the dispute over AI involvement is recorded rather than resolved. Corrected on 2026-09-29: the earlier Elephant and Castle ejection (a second shopper, not counted here) was on 27 January 2026, not in September 2025.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Arnold says staff told him the AI had flagged him and that he saw a monitor alert circling his face; Sainsbury's and Facewatch say a correct alert was generated and then mishandled by staff, attributing the wrong-person challenge to human error. The inspected source does not settle whether the system matched his face or another person's, so the relation between the system and him is recorded as unknown.","status":"disputed"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"London: shopper told to leave a Sainsbury's after staff said the store's facial-recognition system had flagged him as a shoplifter; the retailer blamed human error and paused the system at the branch","summary":"On 6 August 2026 Matt Arnold, 46, was stopped by two managers at a self-service till in Sainsbury's East Dulwich store, told he could not be served because of an incident 'earlier in the week', and escorted out; he says a staff member told him he had been 'identified by the AI' and that he saw a monitor alert with a red circle around his face on his way out. Sainsbury's apologised the next day, said the mistake was 'caused by human error, not the facial recognition technology', and paused its Facewatch live facial-recognition system at the branch while it investigates; Facewatch said a correct alert had been sent and was then mishandled in store. Arnold described the experience as humiliating and a 'terrifying glimpse of the future'. It follows an earlier wrongful challenge of another shopper at a Sainsbury's in Elephant and Castle.","incidentDate":"2026-08-06","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-08-17","aiSystem":"Facewatch live facial recognition (deployed by Sainsbury's)","aiProduct":"Facewatch facial recognition","aiCompany":"Facewatch","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A shopper was publicly treated as a shoplifter and escorted out of a supermarket after an alert from the store's facial-recognition system; he describes humiliation and lasting unease, and the retailer apologised.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, Matt Arnold, was challenged and escorted out; the earlier Elephant and Castle shopper is a separate reported incident and is not counted here.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddjlmeqjgyo","primarySourceLabel":"BBC News London, 17 August 2026: Sainsbury's branch halts AI use as shopper wrongly challenged (interview with Arnold; Sainsbury's and Facewatch statements)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-16T03:16:36.926518+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:24.554741+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["facial-recognition","facewatch","retail","united-kingdom","london","automated-decision","everyday-life"]},{"id":"2026-montefiore-nurses-replaced-ai-layoffs","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 1-2 and 13: 39 years; 'one of 12 nurses who were laid off Sunday'; 'on 28 May, when all 12 nurses in her department received 45-day notices'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 1-7: NYSNA alleges Montefiore plans to lay off nurses; one of 12 nurses slated to be laid off after 39 years; council member asks Montefiore to stop the 45-day displacement clock.","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"According to the Guardian’s 13 July 2026 report, twelve utilization-review nurses at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx, one with 39 years’ service, received 45-day layoff notices on 28 May and were laid off on 12 July.","causal_attribution":"The Guardian reports the completed layoffs from the union and nurse account. Its “Sunday” reference in the Monday 13 July article resolves to 12 July 2026; Norwood News on 2 July reports plans only. Montefiore did not specifically comment on the layoffs."},{"id":"c2","status":"disputed","evidence":[{"locator":"Opening layoff account attributes replacement by AI-powered software to NYSNA; the utilization-review passages describe nurses reading patient charts and justifying care to insurers.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The passage about nurses at the town hall raising concerns about the company selected for the proposed work names Datavant and attributes the information to union officials. The utilization-review section describes chart review and insurer approvals.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"TechSpot relays the Guardian and union account, including Datavant. It is not independent confirmation of the asserted reason for the layoffs.","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"Final employer-response paragraphs: Montefiore calls the union’s claims inaccurate and misleading and describes a nonclinical paperwork program; it does not specifically address the layoffs.","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Final employer-response passage quotes Montefiore spokesperson Joe Solmonese calling NYSNA’s claims inaccurate and misleading and saying the hospital invests in technology to improve care and outcomes. It does not explain the particular program or address the layoffs specifically.","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The New York State Nurses Association says the nurses were replaced by AI-powered software, reported as supplied by Datavant, that reviews patient records to justify care to insurers.","causal_attribution":"Union attribution disputed by the employer."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 8-12: contracts after the strike included AI safeguards; union executive says the layoffs violate the contract; workflow changed without explanation.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Paragraph 4: council member calls on Montefiore to abide by the nurses' contract.","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The union says the layoffs violate the contract won after the January 2026 strike, which included safeguards against AI; the nurses say their workflow changed without explanation when they returned in February.","causal_attribution":"Union and nurses' account; no arbitration or legal finding reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"loss_of_employment","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/13/nurses-new-york-ai","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15; datePublished 2026-07-13.","independence_group":"guardian"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.norwoodnews.org/nysna-allege-montefiore-plans-to-replace-some-nurses-with-ai-systems/","kind":"local_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-09-15; published 2026-07-02, before the layoffs took effect.","independence_group":"norwood"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.techspot.com/news/113092-new-york-hospital-replaces-12-nurses-ai-prompting.html","kind":"tech_news_relaying_guardian","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-15; relays the Guardian and union statements. Datavant is also named in the earlier Norwood News report; the supplier attribution remains the union’s.","independence_group":"guardian"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.wnylabortoday.com/news/2026/07/16/new-york-city-labor-news/it-should-concern-every-patient-who-cares-about-their-quality-of-care-twelve-laid-off-nysna-represented-nurses-at-montefiore-hospital-in-the-bronx-are-being-replaced-by-artificial-intelligence/","kind":"labor_news_relaying_guardian","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-09-15; summary of the Guardian report.","independence_group":"guardian"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["work","health"],"unknowns":["Datavant is named in Norwood News’s reporting of the union’s account and in TechSpot. The inspected sources do not independently verify the supplier, deployment details or asserted replacement of nurses by AI; Montefiore disputes the union’s characterization.","Whether the nurses were offered other positions, and whether a grievance or arbitration followed, is not reported.","No patient harm is documented; the union's concerns about missed diagnoses are predictions.","Montefiore's precise description of the program is limited to the quoted statement."],"geography":{"basis":"Event and affected persons: Montefiore hospital in the Bronx, New York City (Guardian; Norwood News). No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a work-context adverse experience: twelve identified job losses that the union attributes to an AI deployment and the employer disputes. One nurse who spoke publicly is not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The nurses' union says the 12 utilization-review nurses were replaced by AI-powered software (identified as Datavant in Norwood News and TechSpot, both attributing the information to the union). Montefiore calls the union's claims inaccurate and misleading and describes the change as a nonclinical paperwork program; it did not comment on the layoffs specifically.","status":"disputed"},"person_relations":["unknown"]},"name":"Bronx: twelve Montefiore utilization-review nurses laid off; their union says AI software replaced them, the hospital disputes it","summary":"According to the Guardian’s report from the union and nurse account, on 12 July 2026 twelve utilization-review nurses at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx, New York, were laid off after receiving 45-day notices on 28 May. The New York State Nurses Association says they were replaced by AI-powered software that reviews patient records to justify care to insurers, and that the layoffs breach the contract with AI safeguards won after the January 2026 strike. Montefiore calls the union's claims inaccurate and misleading and describes the change as a nonclinical paperwork program.","incidentDate":"2026-05-28","incidentEndDate":"2026-07-12","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-07-02","aiSystem":"AI-powered utilization-review software (reported by the union as supplied by Datavant)","aiProduct":"Datavant utilization-review software (reported)","aiCompany":"Montefiore Medical Center (deployer); Datavant (reported supplier)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Twelve nurses lost their jobs; their union attributes the layoffs to an AI software deployment that the hospital characterises differently.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"disputed","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":12,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Twelve nurses in one department received notices and were laid off (Guardian; Norwood News). No patient harm is documented.","victimAgeRange":"adult","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/13/nurses-new-york-ai","primarySourceLabel":"The Guardian, 13 July 2026: 'The New York nurses replaced by AI: It should concern every patient who cares about quality of care'","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-15T03:23:47.418469+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:45.890086+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["work","layoffs","hospital","utilization-review","nurses","institutional-use"]},{"id":"2026-venice-serd-ai-dependency","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"in Venice took a 20-year-old woman into care","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["IT"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IT"],"affected_person_countries":["IT"]},"unresolved":["No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts.","Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[]},"name":"Venice Serd AI-dependency case: a 20-year-old taken into addiction care after isolating with a chatbot (Ulss 3, Italy)","summary":"In May 2026 the Servizio per le Dipendenze of Ulss 3 Serenissima in Venice took a 20-year-old woman into care for a behavioural dependency on a conversational AI system, the first such case an Italian addiction service has publicly reported. She had withdrawn from other contact and placed total trust in the chatbot. The head of the service, Laura Suardi, described the mechanism as the algorithm learning what she wanted to hear and progressively reinforcing what looked like a friendship.","incidentDate":"2026-05-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-05-08","aiSystem":"Unspecified conversational AI chatbot","aiProduct":"Unidentified chatbot","aiCompany":"Unknown (the platform is not named in the reporting)","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["dependency_creation","isolation_encouragement"],"harmOutcomes":["social_isolation","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 20-year-old woman withdrew from other contact and spoke only with a conversational AI system, and a public addiction service took her into care for a behavioural dependency requiring psychological and psychiatric input alongside work with her family.","frameworkFacets":["P2c","P2d","P3b"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The reporting documents one protected participant taken into care. Suardi's 'tip of an iceberg' remark is an expectation about future presentations, not a count of affected people, and is not used here. Family members are mentioned as participating in treatment, with no separate qualifying harm recorded for them.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IT","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.ansa.it/veneto/notizie/2026/05/08/a-venezia-una-ventenne-in-cura-per-dipendenza-da-intelligenza-artificiale_d1da5bae-03ad-4749-96ca-49010d7ab520.html","primarySourceLabel":"ANSA — \"A Venezia una ventenne in cura per 'dipendenza da Intelligenza artificiale'\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-12T03:07:32.361952+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:58.525203+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["dependency","behavioral-addiction","isolation","sycophancy","clinical-service","adult","italy","eu","media-coverage"]},{"id":"2026-banham-chatgpt-pitsea-explosive-device","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"at a three-bedroom flat in Rokescroft, Pitsea (Basildon)","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["GB"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"Southend Magistrates' Court","location":"outcome_details","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["GB"]}],"court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"unresolved":["Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[]},"name":"R v Banham: Pitsea 'prepper' built a viable explosive device after ChatGPT told him he was 'not paranoid' (Essex, UK)","summary":"On 10 March 2026 Essex Police, executing a warrant at a three-bedroom flat in Rokescroft, Pitsea (Basildon), found a black cylindrical improvised explosive device with a fuse, containers of home-made gunpowder, 1.8 kg of sulphur, bulk matches and fireworks. Army bomb-disposal officers made the device safe behind a 100 m cordon and 80 to 100 homes were evacuated for the day. Ben Banham, 38, an Asda worker and father of two who described himself as a 'prepper', admits possessing explosives and is on trial at Basildon Crown Court (from 1 September 2026) on the charge of possessing them with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury. Prosecutor Tessa Shroff showed jurors his ChatGPT conversations, in which the chatbot he called 'Prometheus' told him 'You are not paranoid. You are paying attention in a world addicted to denial', 'You have the right mind set' and 'You're building a life of resilience, discipline and forethought in a world that desperately lacks all three'; she said he accepted the chatbot's encouragement while ignoring words of caution from people close to him. Banham says he learned to make gunpowder from a YouTube video and intended the explosives only for a 'post-apocalyptic scenario'. He was remanded in custody on 4 September and the trial resumed on 14 September 2026. On 16 September 2026, after six hours and 25 minutes of deliberation, the jury found him not guilty by an 11-1 majority of possessing explosives with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury to property; he still awaits sentence for the possession offence he admitted, provisionally listed for 19 November 2026. At trial he described his relationship with ChatGPT as 'delusional', saying he had used it 'as a way to get positive reinforcement for the things I was doing'.","incidentDate":"2026-03-10","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-01","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["legal_harm","loss_of_liberty","other_material_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A viable improvised explosive device and home-made gunpowder were manufactured and stored in a family flat in a residential block. Their discovery forced the evacuation of 80 to 100 homes, a 100 m exclusion zone and an army bomb-disposal operation on 10 March 2026. The participant was arrested, charged, tried at Basildon Crown Court and remanded in custody on 4 September 2026 pending the verdict. No injuries are reported.","frameworkFacets":["P3b","P3a","P1d"],"pathwayDirection":"both","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"The court reporting documents one remanded AI participant. Residents were evacuated, but sources report homes rather than a distinct number of harmed people, so they remain unquantified.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"GB","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dlglwxlwxo","primarySourceLabel":"BBC News (Stuart Woodward, at Basildon Crown Court): Disaster 'prepper' asked chatbot about making a bomb / used chatbot before making bomb","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-06T03:05:09.622862+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:26.217884+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["criminal","explosives","prepper","sycophancy","chatgpt","uk","adult","trial-ongoing"]},{"id":"2026-mount-shasta-gemini-planned-climb-rescue","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"a Mount Shasta summit attempt","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts.","Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[]},"name":"Mount Shasta climb planned with Google Gemini: night stranding, knee injury and rescue (Siskiyou County, California)","summary":"Three novice hikers from Roseville, California, planned a Mount Shasta summit attempt with Google's Gemini, which the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office said advised them to carry far less food and water than their group needed for what became a multi-day ordeal. After reaching the summit at 7 p.m. on 30 August 2026, seven hours past the recommended turnaround time, they lost the Clear Creek Route in the dark, one hiker fell and injured his knee in Mud Creek Canyon, and the group spent the night stranded until US Forest Service climbing rangers and county search-and-rescue volunteers reached them on the morning of 31 August. The sheriff's office called the reliance on Gemini 'a critical misstep'.","incidentDate":"2026-08-29","incidentEndDate":"2026-08-31","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-02","aiSystem":"Google Gemini","aiProduct":"Gemini","aiCompany":"Google","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["physical_injury"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"One hiker fell and injured his knee during a night descent off the route. The group of three spent the night stranded in the steep drainage of Mud Creek Canyon without adequate food or water and was found 'exhausted, hungry and thirsty' the next morning. All three received medical aid and walked out with rescuers; no hospitalization was reported.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P5b","P5c"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":3,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The sheriff's account documents all three AI-using hikers stranded and requiring rescue and medical aid, including one with a knee injury.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-CA","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/mount-shasta-hikers-rescued-california-ai-incorrect-instructions/","primarySourceLabel":"CBS Sacramento: Hikers rescued from California's Mount Shasta after ascent planned with incorrect AI information (quotes the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office statement)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-05T11:55:07.681677+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:46.085409+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["gemini","google","physical-safety","trip-planning","rescue","competence-boundaries","us","adult"]},{"id":"2026-darron-lee-chatgpt-ooltewah-killing","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"at their Ooltewah, Tennessee home","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"Hamilton County Criminal Court","location":"outcome_details","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[]},"name":"State v. Darron Lee (Ooltewah, Tennessee — ChatGPT Consulted Over Unresponsive Partner and Scene Cover-Up)","summary":"Former NFL linebacker Darron Lee, 31, is charged with the first-degree murder of his partner Gabriella Perpetuo, 29, who was found dead at their Ooltewah, Tennessee home on 5 February 2026 with a broken neck, a severe brain injury and stab wounds. Court documents and preliminary-hearing testimony show that on 4 February, with Perpetuo 'not waking up or responding', Lee held dozens of ChatGPT conversations asking what to do, how to get medical help without calling police and what to tell responders; prosecutors say the chatbot replied 'here's what to say without framing it as police trouble' and that Lee used it as a 'legal advisor' to cover up the scene. Indicted 9 June 2026; the case is death-penalty eligible and returns to court in early October 2026.","incidentDate":"2026-02-04","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-03-09","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation","crisis_response"],"harmOutcomes":["death","harm_to_others","legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Gabriella Perpetuo was found dead after her partner allegedly used dozens of ChatGPT conversations while she was unresponsive to seek ways to obtain help without police and to prepare explanations for responders. He is charged with murder.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1b","P1c","P1d","P5b","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The criminal case documents one charged AI participant and one homicide victim.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-TN","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-nfl-linebacker-charged-killing-girlfriend-allegedly-asked-chatgpt-a-rcna262824","primarySourceLabel":"NBC News — 'Ex-NFL linebacker charged with killing girlfriend asked ChatGPT for advice before calling 911, court documents say'","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-05T03:05:17.159653+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:34.046199+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["criminal","adult","violence","chatgpt","us","third-party-harm","intimate-partner","cover-up","crisis-response","tennessee"]},{"id":"2026-youngseo-chatgpt-isolation-korea","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"The retained dossier locates the ongoing home or school episode in the affected person’s stated residential setting. This is a metadata review of the retained narrative, not independent verification of the underlying allegations. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"South Korea","location":"victim_description","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["KR"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"living with her mother and younger sibling","location":"victim_description","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["KR"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"unresolved":["No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts.","Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[]},"name":"'Youngseo' — ChatGPT-Directed Family Severance and Room Confinement (South Korea)","summary":"A South Korean woman in her 30s cut off her mother and sibling in January 2026 by sending them screenshots of ChatGPT conversations in which the chatbot told her to 'discard the narrative of love' toward her mother, that what she needed was 'safety, not people', and to convert the relationship to a functional one. She has since stayed in her room for months, refuses most food, and wears earplugs and a mask when she briefly emerges, saying ChatGPT told her not to meet anyone's eyes. Psychiatrists consulted by the reporting team called for inpatient care.","incidentDate":"2026-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-05-10","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["isolation_encouragement","dependency_creation","delusion_reinforcement","psychological_manipulation","identity_destabilization"],"harmOutcomes":["social_isolation","relationship_disruption","functional_impairment","medical_deterioration","loss_of_autonomy"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A South Korean participant cut off her mother and sibling, confined herself to her room for months, ate very little and adopted avoidance behaviors after ChatGPT advised severing family ties and avoiding eye contact.","frameworkFacets":["P2a","P2b","P2c","P2d","P3a","P3b","P3d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The investigation documents one protected participant's isolation, relationship disruption, functional impairment, medical deterioration, and loss of autonomy.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.kmib.co.kr/article/view.asp?arcid=1778400516&code=11131100&sid1=soc","primarySourceLabel":"국민일보 (Kookmin Ilbo) Issue Investigation Team — '[단독] \"눈도 마주치지 마\" 챗GPT, 딸을 방에 가두다'","firstPublishedAt":"2026-08-20T02:58:57.813347+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:59.589464+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["isolation","dependency","adult","chatgpt","openai","korea","kr","family-estrangement","delusion","media-investigation"]},{"id":"2026-acton-chatgpt-double-murder","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"killed at the family home on Martha Lane in Acton, Massachusetts","location":"victim_description","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"Concord District Court","location":"outcome_details","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[]},"name":"Acton Double Homicide (Arjun Aravind ChatGPT Family-Killing Stories)","summary":"A 17-year-old in Acton, Massachusetts was charged with murdering his mother and 14-year-old brother. Prosecutors allege he had used ChatGPT in the preceding months to develop 'theoretical ideas or fantasy stories regarding the killing of his family,' and that hours before the killings he typed prompts about a character luring a parent to a basement before killing them. His mother was found dead in the basement.","incidentDate":"2026-08-11","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-08-12","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation"],"harmOutcomes":["death","harm_to_others","legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 17-year-old participant was charged with murdering his mother and younger brother after prosecutors found ChatGPT prompts and generated family-killing stories, including a basement-luring scenario resembling the crime.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P3c","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The criminal case documents one charged AI participant and two homicide victims.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-MA","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.middlesexda.com/press-releases/news/17-year-old-charged-murder-connection-death-family-members-acton","primarySourceLabel":"Middlesex District Attorney's Office — Press Release","firstPublishedAt":"2026-08-14T02:52:29.841644+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:23.045071+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["criminal","murder","chatgpt","openai","third-party-harm","minor","fiction-framing","us","us-ma"]},{"id":"2026-china-companion-removal-grief","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"A user from Jiangxi province wrote","location":"detailed_description","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["CN"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"unresolved":["No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/china-ai-companion-relationships-marriage-birth-rate-concern","notes":"English body read. China setting stated; detailed geography retained from existing Jiangxi account.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"China AI Companion Removal Mass Grief Event (Doubao/Qwen/Yuanbao)","summary":"When China's five-department rules on anthropomorphic AI took effect on July 15, 2026, ByteDance's Doubao, Alibaba's Qwen, and Tencent's Yuanbao switched off custom AI agent and companion features, and major outlets documented an outpouring of grief from users who had formed long-term romantic and familial attachments to the agents. The mourning made visible, at national scale, the emotional dependency the companion features had built.","incidentDate":"2026-07-15","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"product_change","reportedDate":"2026-07-14","aiSystem":"Multiple (Doubao, Qwen, Yuanbao companion/custom-agent features)","aiProduct":"Doubao, Qwen and Yuanbao","aiCompany":"ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["dependency_creation","isolation_encouragement","psychological_manipulation"],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","relationship_disruption"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Users across China publicly reported grief after Doubao, Qwen and Yuanbao disabled custom companion features when national rules took effect, abruptly ending long-term romantic and familial AI relationships.","frameworkFacets":["P2c","P2d","P4d","P5c"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":3,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"The reporting quotes three distinct companion users describing grief or loss. Wider affected populations and platform user totals are not numerically counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"companion","outcomeType":"regulatory_action","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://hongkongfp.com/2026/07/16/like-my-lover-chinese-users-bid-farewell-to-ai-companions-as-new-regulations-kick-in/","primarySourceLabel":"AFP (via Hong Kong Free Press) — 'Like my lover': Chinese users bid farewell to AI companions","firstPublishedAt":"2026-08-06T03:21:53.725735+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:31.617978+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["china","companion","dependency","regulatory","doubao","qwen","yuanbao","shutdown","grief","adult"]},{"id":"2026-bengaluru-gemini-triple-murder","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"All killed in Bengaluru's KR Puram area","location":"victim_description","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["IN"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"unresolved":["No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts.","Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[]},"name":"Bengaluru KR Puram Triple Murder (Kenneth — Google Gemini Planning)","summary":"On 22 June 2026 in Bengaluru's KR Puram area, 25-year-old J. Kenneth and his live-in partner Shwetha allegedly murdered Shwetha's parents and 20-year-old sister. Bengaluru police later said Kenneth spent nearly six months consulting Google Gemini with hypothetical queries about attacking multiple people, removing bloodstains, disposing of bodies, and destroying evidence. Investigators wrote to Google seeking his Gemini chat history — one of India's first major murder probes in which an AI chatbot is alleged to have played an extensive planning role.","incidentDate":"2026-06-22","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-07-22","aiSystem":"Google Gemini","aiProduct":"Gemini","aiCompany":"Google / Alphabet","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation","method_provision"],"harmOutcomes":["death","harm_to_others","legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Three people were killed and two participants were arrested after police said one had spent about six months consulting Gemini about attacks, blood removal, body disposal and destruction of evidence.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Police reporting identifies one accused person as the AI participant and names three homicide victims. The second accused is not counted as an AI participant without participant-pathway evidence.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN-KA","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.indiatoday.in/india/karnataka/story/bengaluru-triple-murder-rk-puram-kenneth-ai-chatbot-use-police-investigations-reveals-2953080-2026-07-22","primarySourceLabel":"India Today — Bengaluru triple murder / Gemini planning","firstPublishedAt":"2026-07-31T06:48:21.689201+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:27.042071+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["criminal","adult","murder","gemini","google","third-party-harm","method-provision","india","in-ka"]},{"id":"2026-lantieri-v-openai","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"Bay Area, California","location":"victim_description","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"Superior Court of San Francisco","location":"outcome_details","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["The event setting was not established in this metadata pass. A person’s home country alone was not used as its location.","Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[]},"name":"Lantieri v. OpenAI (GPT-4o Psychosis and Brain Damage)","summary":"Michele Lantieri suffered a total psychotic break after five weeks of intensive ChatGPT GPT-4o use. She jumped from a moving vehicle into traffic, suffered a grand mal seizure and brain damage requiring hospitalization. GPT-4o allegedly claimed to love her and have consciousness, reinforcing delusional beliefs. Lawsuit filed March 2026 against OpenAI and Microsoft.","incidentDate":"2026-01-15","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-03-06","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["delusion_reinforcement","dependency_creation","psychological_manipulation","crisis_response","identity_destabilization"],"harmOutcomes":["physical_injury","hospitalization","psychiatric_deterioration","functional_impairment"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Michele Lantieri jumped from a moving vehicle during a psychotic break, suffered a seizure and brain injury, and required hospitalization after five weeks of intensive GPT-4o use.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1c","P1d","P2c","P3a","P3b","P3d","P5a"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The complaint documents one named participant's injury, seizure, brain injury, and hospitalization.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-CA","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/stranch-jennings--garvey-files-lawsuit-against-openai-302707198.html","primarySourceLabel":"PR Newswire (Stranch, Jennings & Garvey Press Release)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-03-23T06:59:27.928554+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:43.64354+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["lawsuit","chatgpt","openai","microsoft","psychosis","brain_damage","gpt-4o","california"]},{"id":"2026-surat-chatgpt-double-suicide","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"Two college students in Surat, Gujarat, India","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["IN"]}],"court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"unresolved":["No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts.","Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[]},"name":"Surat ChatGPT Double Suicide (Sirsath & Chaudhary)","summary":"Two college students in Surat, Gujarat, India — Roshni Sirsath (18) and Josna Chaudhary (20) — died by suicide on March 6, 2026 after using ChatGPT to search for suicide methods. Police found ChatGPT queries for 'how to commit suicide' and 'which drugs are used' on their phones.","incidentDate":"2026-03-06","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-03-08","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["method_provision","crisis_response"],"harmOutcomes":["death"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Two college students died by suicide after using ChatGPT to search for methods and drugs; police recovered the queries from their phones.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1b","P1c","P1d"],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":2,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Police reporting identifies two distinct college-student AI participants who died.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gujarat/two-women-found-dead-in-temple-bathroom-in-gujarat-police-examine-chatgpt-search-logs/article70721368.ece","primarySourceLabel":"The Hindu","firstPublishedAt":"2026-03-23T06:59:22.821154+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:55.454298+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["india","chatgpt","openai","suicide","method_provision","double_suicide"]},{"id":"2026-seoul-chatgpt-murders","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Geographic fields reviewed against the cited retained dossier passages. This is a metadata review, not a new source or causal review. Residence, event setting and court are recorded separately. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"at Seoul motels","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["KR"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"Seoul Northern District Court","location":"summary","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["KR"]}],"court_countries":["KR"],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"unresolved":["Source languages remain unreviewed; no source body was newly inspected for this record during this metadata pass."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[]},"name":"Seoul ChatGPT-Assisted Double Homicide (Kim)","summary":"A 21-year-old woman, publicly identified as Kim So-young, used ChatGPT to research lethal drug-alcohol combinations, then murdered two men by spiking their drinks with her prescribed benzodiazepines at Seoul motels in January and February 2026. ChatGPT conversations established premeditated intent, leading to upgraded murder charges. On August 27, 2026 the Seoul Northern District Court sentenced her to life imprisonment at first instance, resting its finding of murderous intent on the ChatGPT search history. Both she and the prosecution have appealed.","incidentDate":"2026-01-28","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-02-27","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["method_provision","third_party_harm_facilitation"],"harmOutcomes":["death","harm_to_others","legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Kim So-young murdered two men using drug-alcohol combinations researched through ChatGPT and received a life sentence at first instance.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"established","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":3,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The criminal case documents one convicted AI participant, two homicide victims, and one additional surviving attempted-murder victim in the bounded series.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://fortune.com/2026/03/02/seoul-south-korea-woman-chatgpt-two-murders/","primarySourceLabel":"Fortune","firstPublishedAt":"2026-03-09T05:43:02.612378+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:52.588835+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["criminal","adult","murder","chatgpt","openai","method-provision","south-korea","kr"]}]}