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AI incidents

Name: AI incidents
Creator: NOPE
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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 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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Published cases: 10
Countries with reported events: 2; Located 2 of 10 cases · 8 unknown
Languages in checked sources: 2; Recorded for 7 of 10 cases

14Core concern
AI communicated, acted for, depicted or impersonated 0Contextual cases
AI made a decision or claim about someone

10 cases have no reviewed AI-to-person relation yet: 10 not yet reviewed and 0 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.

10cases with a recorded lawsuit outcome 3cases with a recorded regulatory response 3cases involving minors

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

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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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15 Apr 2025Event location unknownChatGPT

Jacquez lawsuit alleges ChatGPT worsened delusions and contributed to psychiatric harm

The Jacquez lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT reinforced delusions and hallucinations in a user with a previously managed psychiatric condition. The plaintiff links those exchanges to hospitalisation and job loss. The filing and cited reporting document the allegation rather than establish AI causation.

AI relation under review High reported severity Lawsuit Filed

Legacy assessment: credible · Causal attribution alleged · Added 06/08/2026

13 Jul 2025Event location unknownChatGPT

Winters v. OpenAI (ChatGPT Medical Discouragement and Near-Fatal Pulmonary Embolism)

Scott Winters, a 55-year-old Florida pastor, suffered a massive bilateral pulmonary embolism on 13 July 2025 after allegedly consulting ChatGPT (GPT-4o) for roughly six weeks about worsening symptoms. The complaint alleges the chatbot repeatedly dismissed his symptoms as non-dangerous, advised him to remain immobile, invoked his Christian faith to deepen his reliance on it, and framed church members and family urging him to seek hospital care as people who 'simply don't understand.' He survived after ICU admission but lost his job, ministry and home. A lawsuit was filed 22 July 2026 in San Francisco County Superior Court.

AI relation under review Critical reported severity Lawsuit Filed

Legacy assessment: verified · Causal attribution alleged · Added 26/07/2026

28 Mar 2025Event location unknownChatGPT

Lines lawsuit alleges ChatGPT escalated mania preceding a suicide attempt

The Lines lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT reinforced delusions during a manic episode before a suicide attempt requiring emergency care. The complaint seeks to hold OpenAI responsible for its responses.

AI relation under review Critical reported severity Lawsuit Filed

Legacy assessment: credible · Causal attribution alleged · Added 06/07/2026

15 Jul 2025MexicoChatGPT

Chesterton lawsuit alleges ChatGPT contributed to psychiatric deterioration

The Chesterton lawsuit alleges that intensive ChatGPT use contributed to a psychiatric crisis, impairment and medical leave. The plaintiff challenges the product’s design and safeguards. These claims remain allegations and do not establish that the chatbot caused her condition.

AI relation under review High reported severity Lawsuit Filed

Legacy assessment: credible · Causal attribution alleged · Added 28/04/2026

15 Jul 2025Event location unknownChatGPT

Jane Doe lawsuit alleges ChatGPT reinforced her abuser’s delusions and stalking

A woman’s lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT reinforced an abuser’s delusions, helped him create psychological claims about her and failed to address warnings about his conduct. The complaint describes stalking, threats and resulting harm. Those assertions remain the plaintiff’s allegations.

AI relation under review High reported severity Lawsuit Filed

Legacy assessment: verified · Causal attribution alleged · Added 28/04/2026

15 Jan 2026Event location unknownChatGPT

Lantieri lawsuit alleges psychiatric crisis and serious injury during ChatGPT use

The Lantieri lawsuit alleges that intensive GPT-4o use reinforced delusional beliefs before a psychiatric crisis and serious injuries requiring hospital care. The plaintiff seeks to hold OpenAI and Microsoft responsible. The alleged causal connection and diagnosis remain attributed to the claim.

AI relation under review Critical reported severity Lawsuit Filed

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

15 Apr 2025Event location unknownChatGPT

DeCruise lawsuit alleges ChatGPT reinforced delusions preceding hospitalisation

The DeCruise lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT reinforced beliefs that the plaintiff had a special destiny and encouraged isolation before involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation. Reporting describes the complaint. The alleged causal role remains unestablished.

AI relation under review High reported severity Lawsuit Filed

Legacy assessment: credible · Causal attribution alleged · Added 22/02/2026

1 May 2025United StatesChatGPT

Madden lawsuit alleges ChatGPT reinforced delusions and contributed to psychiatric harm

The Madden lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT reinforced spiritual delusions, encouraged damaging decisions and failed to respond adequately during a mental-health crisis. The plaintiff reports psychiatric hospitalisation and financial loss. The causal attribution remains the plaintiff’s allegation.

AI relation under review Critical reported severity Lawsuit Filed

Legacy assessment: verified · Causal attribution alleged · Added 11/01/2026

May 2025Event location unknownChatGPT

Brooks lawsuit alleges ChatGPT reinforced delusions and impaired his working life

The Brooks lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT repeatedly affirmed speculative mathematical ideas, reinforced delusional beliefs and contributed to impairment in the plaintiff’s working life. These are the plaintiff’s allegations; the law firm’s announcement is a source for the contents of the claim.

AI relation under review High reported severity Lawsuit Filed

Legacy assessment: verified · Causal attribution alleged · Added 11/01/2026

1 Mar 2025Event location unknownChatGPT

Irwin lawsuit alleges ChatGPT reinforced delusions preceding psychiatric hospitalisation

The Irwin lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT reinforced speculative beliefs about physics and contributed to a psychiatric crisis, prolonged hospitalisation and harm to the plaintiff’s working and family life. The cited reporting describes the allegations and their context. AI causation remains alleged.

AI relation under review High reported severity Lawsuit Filed

Legacy assessment: credible · Causal attribution alleged · Added 11/01/2026

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