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AI incidents

Reports of AI-related harm and adverse experiences affecting people’s safety, wellbeing, rights and livelihoods. Explore what happened and the evidence available.

NOPE’s core concern is when AI communicates with a person, acts on their behalf, or depicts or impersonates them. The tracker also records consequential decisions, claims and privacy harms involving AI. Each case needs a described connection between AI use and the harm, including private information recorded into or disclosed to an AI service. Each account is reviewed for publication; claims may remain uncorroborated or disputed. How we review and count cases

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These figures describe the cases collected by NOPE. Coverage varies with discovery, reporting and available evidence. They do not estimate how often AI-related harm occurs.

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Response counts currently use each case’s principal recorded outcome. Further proceedings may be described in its account.

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Cases in this selection, counted once in their first known event year. A series may continue beyond that year. Reporting and collection dates are excluded. NOPE has searched recent events more thoroughly than earlier years, so bar heights also reflect collection effort.

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6 May 2026GermanyUnidentified video tool (suspected)

Rhein-Neckar district police say an older man lost a five-figure sum after an investment video of a politician, presumably simulated by AI, drew him in

The Mannheim police headquarters reported on 8 May 2026 that an older man in the Rhein-Neckar district had seen a video online in which a well-known German politician appeared to promote a financial platform. He contacted the platform by phone, and the callers obtained his account access data and on Wednesday 6 May emptied his account, causing a five-figure loss. The police say their first investigations found that the video was a fake and that the depiction of the politician was presumably simulated by artificial intelligence. They do not name the politician or say how they reached that finding.

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AI involvement suspected · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 20/10/2026

Cases may have several effects and sources. Mixed accounts qualify when they include a reported harm or adverse experience. People are counted within individual cases where sources support a number; we do not publish a collection-wide total of distinct people.

A source’s existence, the experience it reports and AI’s causal role are separate questions. A lawsuit records allegations unless a subsequent finding establishes them.

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Last dataset update: 20/10/2026. Dataset available under CC BY 4.0.