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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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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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2022United StatesRekor license plate readers (reported)

Fayetteville, North Carolina: police handcuffed and interrogated a woman for hours in 2022 after license plate readers placed her car near a shooting scene; the city later settled with her for $60,000

The News & Observer reported in May 2024 that Fayetteville police wrongly linked a woman to a drive-by shooting in 2022. Cameras had recorded a white sedan at the scene. The newspaper reports that police using the city's license plate readers spotted her white car a few minutes away and that, according to a police affidavit, detectives then issued an alert for it. Days later, police cruisers surrounded her in a convenience store parking lot as she was on her way to get ready for a funeral. She was handcuffed, accused of taking part in the shooting, and left handcuffed to a chair alone for an hour in an interrogation room. She told detectives her car and the car photographed at the scene were different vehicles. Police released her after about four hours. The city later settled with her for $60,000 without admitting wrongdoing, and a city spokesperson said no one was demoted or fired. The newspaper reports that she missed the funeral, had trouble focusing and avoids the area.

Contextual tracker case Medium reported severity Lawsuit Settled

AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · 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.