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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 is wider: it also records consequential decisions and claims about people. Each account is reviewed for publication; claims may remain uncorroborated or disputed. How we review and count cases

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Published cases
3
Countries with reported events
1
Located 2 of 3 cases · 1 unknown
Languages in checked sources
1
Recorded for 3 of 3 cases

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.

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

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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3 of 404 published cases

18 Aug 2025United StatesTesla FSD / Autopilot (reported)

Houston Cybertruck driver alleges FSD barrier crash caused injuries; Musk disputes system timing

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

Louisiana girl reports bullying and school exclusion after AI sexual-image abuse

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

Aug 2025Event location unknownUnidentified AI-text detector

Student reports receiving a zero after a disputed AI-detector result

In an August 2025 first-person post, a student said they discovered a zero for a summer-course discussion assignment after a checker labelled 85% of the text AI-generated. They denied using AI to write it, reported contacting the professor, and described anger and fear of future accusations. Neither the detector output nor the school’s account was available for verification.

Contextual tracker case Low reported severity

AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 29/09/2026

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: 30/09/2026. Dataset available under CC BY 4.0.