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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 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.

1cases with a recorded lawsuit outcome 0cases with a recorded regulatory response 0cases involving minors

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.

1 2023
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Mar 2023United StatesFlock Safety license plate readers

Jackson Township, Ohio: police stopped and briefly detained a driver in March 2023 after a Flock license-plate camera matched his plate to a missing-juvenile hotlist entry left in place after the juvenile was found; he settled with the township, and a federal court dismissed his suit against Flock in April 2024

According to a federal court opinion of 15 April 2024, Cleveland police entered a driver's license plate and vehicle description on a hotlist during a February 2023 missing-juvenile investigation. The juvenile was found on 23 February 2023 and the investigation ended, but two weeks later a Flock Safety license-plate camera captured the driver's plate, matched it to the hotlist and alerted Jackson Township police, who stopped his car. The officers contacted Cleveland police, learned the juvenile had been found, and let him go; the police report shows him cleared by 5:18 a.m. He sued the township and four officers, settling in November 2023, and then sued Flock, alleging among other things defamation, product defects and emotional distress. Judge Benita Y. Pearson of the Northern District of Ohio dismissed the suit against Flock, finding that Flock did not detain him, that its system only matched plates against information entered by police, and that its camera did not cause the injury he complained of.

Contextual tracker case Low reported severity Lawsuit Dismissed

AI involvement supported · Causal attribution disputed · 1 source · Added 04/10/2026

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: 04/10/2026. Dataset available under CC BY 4.0.