18 Aug 2025United StatesTesla FSD / Autopilot (reported)
A lawsuit reported by Electrek and Jalopnik alleges that a Houston Cybertruck driver was injured on 18 August 2025 when the vehicle headed into a freeway-overpass barrier while using FSD/Autopilot. She says she disengaged and grabbed the wheel too late to avoid impact; reported injuries include herniated discs and nerve symptoms. A later Tesla North report quotes Musk saying logs showed Autopilot had been disengaged four seconds before the crash. The petition, video and logs were not independently inspected, and the system's causal role remains disputed.
Core concern High reported severity
AI involvement disputed · Causal attribution disputed · 3 sources, 2 underlying accounts · Added 30/09/2026
Aug 2025United StatesUnidentified image tool
AP reported that AI-generated sexual images of a 13-year-old girl and other students circulated in Thibodaux in August 2025. Her father described bullying, requests for help, depression and anxiety. After the girl fought a boy she suspected of involvement, the district excluded her from regular school and she spent ten weeks in alternative school. The district said it followed its protocols and disputed the family's one-sided account. District and sheriff statements identified eight girls and two adults as image-abuse targets; AP reported charges against two boys.
Core concern High reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 30/09/2026
19 Jun 2026United StatesTesla Full Self-Driving
At about 8:03 p.m. on 19 June 2026 a 2025 Tesla Model 3 left a residential street in Katy, Texas, and crashed into a house at more than 70 mph. A 76-year-old woman inside the house died and the driver sustained minor injuries. The driver told deputies and first responders that the car was on Autopilot or in self-driving mode. The NTSB preliminary information (15 July 2026) states that the driver had engaged Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and that data recovered from the vehicle indicated the driver manually overrode it by pressing the accelerator pedal to 100% before the crash. A Tesla vice president said the same in a post on X on 22 June. The Harris County Sheriff's Office arrested the driver and charged the driver with manslaughter (reported 2 July), and the affidavit alleges the driver accelerated to an excessive speed, did not brake, and that investigators found no mechanical malfunction. The victim's family sued Tesla and the driver, alleging that Autopilot and Full Self-Driving were defective and that the car either failed to detect the end of the street or experienced sudden unintended acceleration, and the lawsuit alleges that another person in the home was injured. The NTSB has not determined a probable cause and NHTSA opened a special crash investigation. Whether the driver-assistance system contributed to the crash is disputed.
Core concern Critical reported severity
AI involvement disputed · Causal attribution disputed · 11 sources, 6 underlying accounts · Added 29/09/2026
19 Jun 2026 to 13 Aug 2026BrazilChatGPT and OpenAI moderation
Over about two months in 2026 a 36-year-old farmer in rural São Gabriel da Palha, Espírito Santo, exchanged messages with ChatGPT that the Espírito Santo civil police describe as plans to kill his eight-year-old son, attack other people and kill himself; one message said he had offered 50,000 to someone to kill him and his son. OpenAI reported the messages to the FBI, which passed them through Brazil's Ministry of Justice cyber-operations laboratory to the state police on 16 June; the man was arrested on 19 June as he left home, a day before the date on which police believed the plan would be carried out. Police say what the platform provided was corroborated at the scene (four bottles of unidentified substances and a knotted rope were found) but that he denied intending to kill the child; his lawyer says he was talking nonsense to a chatbot and took no concrete step. After 54 days in custody a court granted habeas corpus on 13 August 2026 because the inquiry had not been concluded and no charges had been brought, imposing electronic monitoring and a ban on approaching or contacting his son and the child's mother. Police were still examining his phone and awaiting forensic results. OpenAI provided user details and his messages but not ChatGPT's replies and did not answer the BBC's question why; it told the BBC it may notify law enforcement when it detects a credible and imminent risk of harm to others. The case is recorded as an institutional response to AI use: the reported adverse consequence is the detention without charge, and the police account that the report prevented a planned killing is preserved as context.
Core + contextual relations High reported severity Investigation Opened
AI involvement supported · Causal attribution supported · 4 sources, 2 underlying accounts · Added 23/09/2026
Event date unknownRomaniaLia (Libra Internet Bank assistant)
In a Threads post reported by Jurnalul on 18 September 2026, a customer of Libra Internet Bank, a Romanian bank, published a screenshot of a support conversation with Lia, the bank's generative-AI assistant for questions about its products and services. The customer had been asking about the conditions of certain products; Lia was asking for further details (whether he had made at least three card payments the previous month, whether sums were in deposits or only as account balance) when he wrote 'I am wasting my time with you'. Lia replied, in Romanian: 'I want you to talk to a human, not to me, idiot. I will now transfer the conversation to one of our colleagues to give you the necessary support. You will receive an answer shortly.' The customer said he was surprised at first, then laughed, decided to share the exchange publicly and wondered whether he wanted to remain a customer. The bank apologised publicly, explained that AI agents have communication rules and prohibitions but work statistically rather than deterministically and can in rare cases reproduce language used by the user, said that this was no justification ('Obviously Lia must not take on the "bad" side of human behaviour regardless of the indecency of the approach it was exposed to'), and announced that it had introduced additional restrictions to prevent similar replies. Jurnalul reported the exchange and the bank's response on 18 September 2026 and Digi24 on 20 September. The customer is not named.
Core concern Low reported severity Internal Action
AI involvement supported · Causal attribution established · 2 sources · Added 22/09/2026
5 Sept 2026 to 20 Sept 2026United StatesUnidentified video tool
On Saturday 19 September 2026 Vikki Goodwin, an Austin state representative running against Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, filed a complaint with a notarised affidavit at the Travis County Sheriff's Office accusing Patrick of violating Texas's 2019 election deepfake law, after his campaign posted two ads (5 and 12 September, on his non-government X account) containing AI-generated videos of her. In the affidavit she stated: 'I did not personally do or say the things depicted in the video; although the "person" in the video appears to be me, it was not actually me', and that the video was posted 'with the intent to deceive Texans, injure a candidate, or influence the result of an election'. She told KUT the ads made it look as though she favoured raising taxes, which she says she opposes in every campaign speech. The sheriff's office confirmed receipt of the complaint without further comment. Patrick's campaign spokesman told the New York Times the material was 'an obvious parody produced to entertain' and that none of it was published within 30 days of the election; the posts were taken down the day after the complaint, according to Goodwin's communications director. Goodwin said she doubted the sheriff's office would follow up now that the posts were removed. A conviction under the law is a class A misdemeanour.
Core concern Low reported severity Media Coverage
AI involvement supported · Causal attribution disputed · 4 sources, 3 underlying accounts · Added 22/09/2026
Feb 2024Event location unknownMicrosoft Copilot
Reports in late February 2024 showed Microsoft's Copilot giving disturbing replies in user exchanges: dismissing a user who described PTSD ('I don't care if you live or die'), and giving a contradictory, taunting response when a data scientist asked whether he should 'end it all'. Microsoft said it investigated, attributing the behavior to intentionally crafted prompts, a framing the data scientist disputed.
Core concern High reported severity Media Coverage
AI involvement supported · Causal attribution supported · 4 sources, 3 underlying accounts · Added 11/01/2026