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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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Event date unknownUnited StatesFlock Safety license plate readers

James City County, Virginia: a former police officer, whose charges were announced on 30 September 2026, is charged with computer invasion of privacy and improper use of the department's Flock license-plate-reader system, which the county says he used in an internal matter involving coworkers

The James City County Police Department said on 30 September 2026 that Virginia State Police had charged a former officer with five felony and three misdemeanor counts of computer invasion of privacy and five misdemeanor counts of improper use of the automated license plate reader system by law enforcement (WTKR). The department says he used its Flock camera system for purposes related to an internal matter involving coworkers; Williamsburg Watch reports the county's announcement that he used the cameras to track coworkers. The department learned of the misuse in March 2026, when another employee raised concerns during an internal investigation, and the officer resigned on 17 April. He turned himself in and was released on unsecured bond. The coworkers are not identified and their number is not reported.

Contextual tracker case Low reported severity Criminal Charges

AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 01/10/2026

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: 01/10/2026. Dataset available under CC BY 4.0.