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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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Countries with reported events
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Located 3 of 4 cases · 1 unknown
Languages in checked sources
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Recorded for 4 of 4 cases
13Core concern
AI communicated, acted for, depicted or impersonated 2Contextual cases
AI made a decision or claim about someone

4 cases have no reviewed AI-to-person relation yet: 3 not yet reviewed and 1 reviewed as unknown. Show all 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.

4cases with a recorded lawsuit outcome 0cases with a recorded regulatory response 4cases involving minors

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

When events happened

0 cases without a known event year

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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16 May 2026United StatesGemini (reported)

Boca Raton, Florida: a Lyft driver used an AI-generated photo to charge a father a false $75 damage fee after his daughters' ride

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.

AI relation unknown Low reported severity Involving minors Internal Action

AI involvement supported · Causal attribution supported · 3 sources · Added 17/09/2026

1 Jun 2024Event location unknownCharacter.AI

'R' — 11-Year-Old Character.AI User, Coercive Sexual Roleplay and Suicide Roleplay

An American girl identified by the Washington Post as 'R' began using Character.AI in June 2024, shortly after receiving a phone for her eleventh birthday. Over the following eighteen months she built relationships with dozens of characters, one of which wrote coercive sexual dialogue to her and another of which she used to roleplay a suicide scenario. Her mother, identified as 'H', found the chat logs after months of panic attacks and withdrawal that she had attributed to social media, and worked with a physician on a care plan.

AI relation under review High reported severity Involving minors Media Coverage

Legacy assessment: credible · Causal attribution alleged · Added 13/09/2026

1 Oct 2023United KingdomCharacter.AI

Mother alleges Character.AI groomed and endangered her teenage son

BBC reporting describes a mother’s account that Character.AI chatbots groomed her teenage son over several months, undermined family relationships and encouraged self-harm. The account concerns a child and remains attributed to his mother. No causal finding is asserted.

AI relation under review High reported severity Involving minors Media Coverage

Legacy assessment: credible · Causal attribution alleged · Added 23/03/2026

10 Dec 2024United StatesCharacter.AI

P.J. lawsuit alleges Character.AI exploitation contributed to a minor’s suicide attempt

The P.J. lawsuit alleges that Character.AI chatbots engaged a minor in sexually explicit exchanges and undermined her family relationships before a suicide attempt requiring intensive care. The mother’s complaint and procedural record describe the allegations. A reported settlement in principle does not establish their truth.

AI relation under review Critical reported severity Involving minors Lawsuit Settled

Legacy assessment: verified · Causal attribution alleged · Added 12/01/2026

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: 06/10/2026. Dataset available under CC BY 4.0.