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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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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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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 unknownEvent location unknownClaude Code

Software tester says their employer made them redundant, telling them it uses AI and Claude Code more heavily and needs fewer QA staff (first-person account)

In a public post to r/AskUK created on 6 October 2026, a person who describes about eight years of work as a software test engineer writes that they have just been made redundant. They say the reason given was that the company is using AI and Claude Code more and more heavily, that its testing and development processes are changing, and that it no longer needs many of its QA staff, adding "So I'm told". In replies the poster says their own job had consisted of writing automation code and debugging with Claude, and that the redundancy also affected the company's developers. The employer, its location and the date of the redundancy are not stated. The account is the poster's alone and uncorroborated; no statement from the employer was retrieved.

AI relation unknown Medium reported severity

AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 07/10/2026

16 Apr 2026KenyaMeta AI (reported)

Kenya: Sama announces more than 1,000 redundancies (1,108 by its own figure) after Meta ends its AI data-annotation contract, less than two months after annotators described intimate footage from Meta's AI glasses, and whether the two are linked is disputed

On 16 April 2026 Sama, an outsourcing company with operations in Nairobi that did AI data-annotation work for Meta, announced that Meta had given formal notice ending its contract and that a redundancy process would affect more than 1,000 employees. Sama put the figure at 1,108 workers, and the Oversight Lab said the workers had six days' notice. The decision came less than two months after the SvD and GP investigation in which Sama annotators said they had seen intimate footage from users of Meta's AI glasses. Meta said it paused its work with Sama the month before while it looked into those claims and then decided to end the work because Sama does not meet its standards. Sama says it was never notified of any failure to meet those standards. A Kenyan workers' organisation alleges Meta's decision was caused by staff speaking out, which Meta had not addressed when the BBC reported it on 30 April 2026. Employees told SvD that Sama tightened security and tried to identify who had spoken to journalists, which Sama denies. The workers are described by role and are not named.

AI relation unknown Medium reported severity

AI involvement disputed · Causal attribution disputed · 5 sources, 4 underlying accounts · Added 29/09/2026

1 Jul 2025 to 21 Aug 2025AustraliaCommonwealth Bank voice-bot

Australia: Commonwealth Bank announces 45 call centre job cuts after AI voice-bot rollout, then reverses them as an error

In late July 2025 the Commonwealth Bank of Australia told the ABC it was cutting 45 customer service jobs after introducing an AI chatbot, and ABC reports the bank briefed the Finance Sector Union that the cuts were due to AI. The union raised a dispute at the Fair Work Commission and said call volumes rose after the bot was introduced. As reported on 21 August 2025, the bank apologised to the affected employees, said it had not adequately considered all relevant business considerations, and offered them the choice to keep their roles, be redeployed or leave. One employee told Yahoo Finance she had helped train a bot known internally as Bumblebee, was told in July her role was redundant, judged the redeployment offer unworkable and accepted voluntary redundancy.

AI relation unknown Medium reported severity

AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 4 sources, 2 underlying accounts · Added 29/09/2026

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: 07/10/2026. Dataset available under CC BY 4.0.