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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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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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2025United StatesFlock Safety license plate readers

Cumberland, Rhode Island: a woman's lawsuit, as relayed by the ACLU of Rhode Island, says police falsely arrested her after concluding that a Flock camera photograph of a fleeing driver matched her license photo; the ACLU dates the arrest to 2025 and asked the town to cancel its Flock contract

The ACLU of Rhode Island reported in August 2026 on a federal lawsuit filed in June by a woman who says Cumberland police falsely arrested her. According to the lawsuit as the ACLU describes it, an officer saw a car turn without signalling and a short chase followed. Officers then used Facebook to identify a person they believed was the driver. A police officer's report from March 2025, quoted in the ACLU's letter, says a sergeant captured a photograph from a Flock camera of the driver during the pursuit and that the photograph matched the woman's license photo. The lawsuit says that identification was wrong. The ACLU said the report shows the town's Flock license plate cameras also photograph drivers and passengers, which it says was not disclosed when the cameras were approved in 2024. On 7 August 2026 it asked the Town Council to cancel the Flock contract.

AI relation unknown Medium reported severity Lawsuit Filed

AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 3 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 05/10/2026

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 People are counted within individual cases where sources support a number; we do not publish a collection-wide total of distinct people.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: 05/10/2026. Dataset available under CC BY 4.0.