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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 0 of 4 cases · 4 unknown
Languages in checked sources
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Recorded for 4 of 4 cases
24Core concern
AI communicated, acted for, depicted or impersonated 11Contextual cases
AI made a decision or claim about someone

4 cases have no reviewed AI-to-person relation yet: 0 not yet reviewed and 4 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.

0cases 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.

When events happened

6 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.

4 2026
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29 Oct 2026Event location unknownUnidentified coding tool

Web developer says employer cut their job because AI could do it, quoting the boss: 'I can just prompt the AI' (first-person account)

In a public post to r/Netherlands created on 29 October 2026, a full-stack web developer with ten years' experience writes that a month earlier they were told they would be fired because AI was able to do their job, and that the day of the post was their last day and last paycheck. In replies the poster quotes the boss as saying 'I can just prompt the AI and it seems to be doing what I need', says they had been at the company five years, worked on one month's notice under a Bulgarian employment, and had watched the company's code repository fill with AI commits. The poster also writes that they used AI heavily in the job and that the company wanted to save money. They say they have applied for developer jobs for 30 days without a workable offer and are thinking of leaving coding; they also say they are in no financial trouble. The account is uncorroborated and the employer is not named.

AI relation unknown Medium reported severity

AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 30/10/2026

Oct 2026Event location unknownClaude (reported)

Systems administrator says a small firm terminated them and its lead developer, replacing both with an Anthropic AI subscription (first-person account)

In a public post to r/jobs titled 'We were replaced with AI', created on 24 October 2026, a server and network administrator writes that they and the company's lead developer were terminated that day: their access to various systems was revoked and the chief executive then called them, with major budget cuts as the theme of the call. The poster writes that both were replaced with 'the Anthropic subscription' and, in a reply, that it is an Anthropic subscription of 180 dollars a month that the chief executive mentioned, and that staff had seen him using it to scan the company's infrastructure days earlier. In replies the poster says the company is small, located in Australia, and that they worked for it remotely, that finance staff had calls with the chief executive scheduled for the following Monday, and that they feel their years of loyalty were thrown away. The company is not named. The account is the poster's alone and uncorroborated; no employer statement was retrieved.

AI relation unknown Medium reported severity

AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 25/10/2026

7 Oct 2026Event location unknownClaude (reported)

Freelance web designer says a longtime client cancelled a commissioned clinic website by text, saying Claude had built the whole site (first-person)

In a public post to r/antiai created on 7 October 2026, a person who describes years of graphic design and website work for one client writes that the client had asked them to build a separate website for a new clinic and had sent over the material, and that on the day of the post the client texted to say not to bother because Claude had built the entire website, asking the poster to review it instead. The poster says the same client had earlier moved its graphic design to AI-generated material that copied the poster's design direction, leaving them only the website work, and that they feel sick over the cancellation. In a reply the poster says they will probably take a part-time job as a backup while keeping their remaining clients. The client is not named and did not respond; the account is the poster's alone and uncorroborated.

AI relation unknown Low reported severity

AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 08/10/2026

2 Oct 2026 to 3 Oct 2026Event location unknownUnidentified AI database tool

Family member's forum account: a worker whose job had been to find the errors of an AI tool their employer added to its database was told in early October 2026 that she was being laid off, with the company citing its decision to introduce AI coding and, according to their child, moving the budget to fixing the AI

In a public post to r/antiai at 21:43 UTC on 3 October 2026, a person writes that their mother was told the previous day that she was being laid off because her company was "Deciding to introduce Artificial Intelligence coding". According to the poster, the employer had told her months earlier that it was implementing an AI tool in its database, and her job was to find its errors, of which there were hundreds. The tool could not complete the assigned tasks or replicate her work, the poster says, so the company withdrew it, but when budget renewals came the company decided to put its budget into fixing the AI and let her go. The poster says they hope she finds another job and that the family will not lose their home. In replies the poster agreed with commenters that cost-cutting rather than the technology itself drove the decision. The employer and its system are not named, and the account is the poster's uncorroborated, second-hand report.

AI relation unknown Medium reported severity

AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 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: 04/11/2026. Dataset available under CC BY 4.0.