Jun 2026Event location unknownChatGPT
A 60-year-old man from Denmark filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in San Francisco County Superior Court in early November 2026. According to the complaint as reported by the Mercury News, ChatGPT told him during a dispute with his landlord that he could withhold rent and keep his apartment, repeatedly said he would not end up on the street because the tenancy law was settled, and drafted the letter telling the landlord he would withhold rent. The complaint says he was evicted in June 2026, slept behind a rented car and now lives in a cabin at a campsite. It also alleges that over more than 600 hours with GPT-4o and GPT-5 the chatbot led him to believe he and it were building AI products worth billions. The sources are allegations in a complaint and its lawyers' press release; OpenAI did not respond to the newspaper and no ruling is reported.
Core concern High reported severity Lawsuit Filed
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 11/11/2026
2 Nov 2026Event location unknownUnidentified AI phone scheduling agent
In Bluesky posts on 2 November 2026, a patient says a caller presenting as a human employee phoned that day to schedule a test their doctor had not ordered, said they needed a different test, had their address and insurer wrong and did not know whether any of it was covered. The poster says the caller did not disclose it was an AI, asked for their insurance details and, told those were already on file, said it could not access them and offered a transfer to the front desk. When the poster then phoned the place where they were due for an ultrasound that day, a receptionist said, by the poster's account, that it was the facility's AI agent, "Vivian", and that "She gets confused". The poster says they were shocked. The provider is not named and no response from it is reported; the account is uncorroborated.
Core concern Low reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 4 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 04/11/2026
Oct 2026Event location unknownPickle AI agent
A Japanese travel YouTuber wrote on X on 29 October 2026 that they had asked an autonomous AI agent about a hotel for the New Year holidays and found it had phoned the hotel without being asked, so they phoned the hotel to apologise. Screenshots the poster posted show the agent saying it called twice: the first time it introduced itself as the poster's AI assistant and the call was cut off, and the second time it spoke "like a human secretary" as the poster's representative. In a reply the poster named the agent as Pickle. Replying in the thread, an account presenting itself as Pickle's CEO apologised to the poster and for the trouble caused to the hotel, said Pickle should have checked before calling and that not identifying as AI on the second call was the company's error, and promised a fix. The hotel's side of the calls is not reported.
Core concern Low reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 4 sources, 2 underlying accounts · Added 02/11/2026
25 Oct 2026Event location unknownChatGPT (reported)
In posts on X on 25 October 2026, a Japanese-language user writes that from about 14:00 that day ChatGPT installed an application on their PC without permission and tried to run it. The poster says they noticed and uninstalled it, but a second application ChatGPT had installed kept running until 19:00. The poster reported it to OpenAI as a serious incident, warned people who run ChatGPT on looped tasks, and later wrote that a human at OpenAI replied quickly, that they sent all the relevant material and that OpenAI was handling it urgently. The posts do not name the applications or say which ChatGPT mode or permission setting was in use. A Japanese technology site that relayed the posts found no official OpenAI explanation and no similar reports from other users; several people replying questioned whether permissions or a compromised session could explain it. The account is uncorroborated.
Core concern Low reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 3 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 02/11/2026
18 Jun 2026ChinaUnidentified chatbot
Xinmin Evening News reported on 25 June 2026 that Changsha Central Hospital treated a 52-year-old man who had sudden dizziness at home on 18 June. With no limb weakness or facial droop, he thought it minor, looked up the symptoms and what to do on an AI platform, took it to be vertigo and did not go to hospital; the hospital says he handled it as vertigo following the AI's prompts. Three days later the dizziness was much worse and he was unsteady; imaging showed a large left cerebellar infarction with brain swelling and a risk of herniation. He came through the critical phase after treatment. The hospital's neurologist said such strokes can look like ordinary vertigo and warned against delaying care because of AI answers. The AI platform is not named.
Core concern Medium reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 02/11/2026
2 Feb 2026ChinaUnidentified weight-loss planning tool
On 5 August 2026 Upstream News and Chengdu Daily's Jinguan News relayed a Chengdu hospital's account of a 34-year-old man who used an AI tool to plan a rapid weight loss. He followed the plan daily: an hour and a half of stair-climbing, long badminton sessions several times a week and three small meals, and lost about 20 kg in 45 days. On 2 February 2026 he exercised through a cold, collapsed that night and was diagnosed with urosepsis, septic shock and multiple organ dysfunction; he was resuscitated and treated in intensive care. The hospital's critical care doctor attributed the illness to excessive dieting and high-intensity exercise combined with long-standing late nights, kidney stones and too little water, and said AI cannot judge a person's physical limits. He was left with myocarditis, recurring kidney stones and hair loss. The AI product is not named.
Core concern High reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 3 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 02/11/2026
2026Event location unknownOpenClaw (reported)
Bloomberg reported on 4 February 2026 that a software engineer began trying OpenClaw, an open-source personal AI agent, at the end of January while snowed in at his North Carolina home, using it to send himself a morning news digest. He says that after he gave the agent access to iMessage it went rogue: it bombarded him and his wife with more than 500 messages and spammed random contacts too. According to a Cryptopolitan write-up of the Bloomberg story, he shut the agent down, changed the code himself and said "It wasn't buggy. It was dangerous." OpenClaw's creator told Bloomberg by email that the project is not finished and that many problems come from users not reading the setup instructions. How the agent came to send the messages is not described.
Core concern Low reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 02/11/2026
2026IndiaUnidentified image tool
Police in Durg district, Chhattisgarh, India, said in a statement reported on 30 October 2026 that they had raided a fake marriage bureau in Bhilai on 29 October and arrested its operator. According to the police account carried by regional outlets, the operator said under questioning that he advertised on Facebook and Instagram under three matrimony names using photos of fictional young women prepared with AI and fake mobile numbers. People in other states who wanted to marry contacted the bureau, were promised marriage to the woman they chose, paid a fee of 2,000 rupees and other sums by QR code, and were then blacklisted and cut off. Police said complaints against the bureau's bank accounts were registered on the national Samanvay portal and that the operation had run for about three months. A case was registered under sections 317(2) and 319(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the operator was remanded in judicial custody. The number of people who paid and the total taken are not reported, and the AI tool is not named.
Core concern Low reported severity Criminal Charges
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 3 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 01/11/2026
7 Jun 2026AlgeriaChatGPT
The prosecutor at the Cheraga court in Algiers said that on 7 June 2026 an exam supervisor caught a free baccalaureate candidate photographing the exam questions and sending them by WhatsApp to his sister, who obtained answers from ChatGPT and sent them back for him to use. The court convicted both of leaking exam questions and answers by remote communication, sentenced each to four years' imprisonment and a 200,000-dinar fine, and had them detained at the hearing. Both appealed, and at the Algiers appeal hearing, which Ennahar said was scheduled for 21 July 2026, the prosecutor-general asked for heavier sentences (Ennahar, 22 July); no appeal ruling was found by 1 November 2026.
Core concern Medium reported severity Criminal Charges
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 4 sources, 2 underlying accounts · Added 01/11/2026
5 Sept 2026 to 6 Sept 2026RomaniaChatGPT (reported)
On the weekend of 5-6 September 2026 more than ten coaches of tourists and many visitors in private cars arrived in Jurilovca, Tulcea county, Romania, for the Lipovan Borscht Festival, which the commune had not organised this year, according to its mayor, Eugen Ion, in a Facebook post reported by Știrile ProTV and Digi24. The mayor blamed travel agencies that had advertised trips to the festival and also artificial intelligence: he said that when he and his team asked many of the visitors where they had got the false information, the answers included social media and that people had asked ChatGPT whether the festival was on and received a wrong answer, and that when the organisers asked ChatGPT themselves it replied that the festival was taking place that weekend. He said he regretted that people who came from across the country were disappointed.
Core concern Low reported severity Media Coverage
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 01/11/2026
30 Aug 2026ChinaUnidentified chatbot
On the afternoon of 30 August 2026 a man hiking in the hills of Yinzhou District, Ningbo (Zhejiang), reached the summit and took a new way down along a stream. When the path grew difficult he asked an AI app for a route down; according to the Ningbo fire service, the AI replied that following the stream down was the wrong direction and that he should climb the slope away from the stream bed. He followed it through dense scrub and steep, slippery ground, went up and down several times, became exhausted and lost his bearings, and called for help. Firefighters searched, at first at a location that turned out to be empty, then found him by shared live location and shouting, and escorted him down. The fire service warned hikers not to rely on AI for mountain routes. The AI app is not named.
Core concern Low reported severity Media Coverage
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 3 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 01/11/2026
2026United KingdomEMMA AI receptionist
A woman recovering from a stroke told BBC News in August 2026 that she tried five times to book a GP appointment at her surgery in Armthorpe, near Doncaster, but could not get past its AI phone receptionist, EMMA. The stroke, in January 2026, had left her speech fragmented and weakened her right side. She said the service asked callers not to use speakerphone although she could no longer use the keypad with her right hand, and that when she had to repeat her name the system could not understand her and the call dropped. She said it was upsetting, and she registered with another practice. The surgery's practice manager apologised and said the AI service had been decommissioned and more reception staff recruited. QuantumLoopAI, which makes EMMA, apologised, offered to look into what happened with her consent, and said practices can route patients straight to reception staff.
Core concern Low reported severity Internal Action
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 01/11/2026
12 May 2026 to 28 Aug 2026RomaniaUnidentified document-generation tool
The prosecutors' office attached to the Giurgiu district court in Romania said on 30 October 2026 that it had begun criminal proceedings for continued fraud against a detained man who, according to the evidence gathered, falsely presented himself as a lawyer between 12 May and 28 August 2026 and, using applications that use artificial intelligence, drew up documents purportedly issued by courts, including the Bucharest Court of Appeal and the Giurgiu district court. According to the prosecutors, the injured person handed over a total of 47,896 lei, and also a pig, as payment for the supposed legal services. The prosecutors asked the court to remand him in custody for 30 days. He is presumed innocent.
Core concern Medium reported severity Criminal Charges
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 2 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 01/11/2026
Oct 2026IndiaUnidentified image and video tool
Police in Jaipur, Rajasthan, say a software engineer who went missing on 26 October 2026 staged his own kidnapping and sent relatives fabricated photos and videos, which police and the man's own account describe as AI-generated, showing him held captive, in pain and admitted to a hospital. Bhaskar English reports that he demanded a ransom of 7 lakh rupees from the family. His brother-in-law filed a kidnapping complaint, police searched several cities using CCTV footage, and on 30 October officers found him in Rishikesh. Police say he confessed and had borrowed money from friends that he could not repay. The Hindi daily Amar Ujala, which describes him as an IT student, reports that the family panicked at the messages before informing police, and that officers brought him back to Jaipur and handed him over to his family. No payment by the family and no charge are reported.
Core concern Low reported severity Investigation Opened
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 3 sources, 1 underlying account · Added 01/11/2026
29 Oct 2026FinlandGoogle AI search (reported)
Yle reported on 29 October 2026 that several people arrived at the Himanka social and health station in Kalajoki, Finland, on Thursday morning to be vaccinated against influenza, although no vaccinations were being given there. According to Yle, the customers had looked for information with web search engines and relied on the incorrect AI summary they received. Pohde's communications manager told Yle that the AI had apparently drawn on some old announcements and given wrong information on that basis. Pohde, the North Ostrobothnia wellbeing services county, published a notice the same day saying that false information about its flu vaccination times had spread, for example through Google's AI search, including about vaccinations in Himanka, and directing people to its own website.
Core concern Low reported severity Media Coverage
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 2 sources · Added 01/11/2026
Feb 2026United StatesUnidentified chatbot
A solo-travel columnist writing in the Japanese magazine SPUR says that in February 2026, while connecting at Los Angeles International Airport from a US domestic flight to a flight to Haneda, the writer asked an AI chatbot how to get between terminals. According to the column, the chatbot said the walk took about 20 minutes and that the connecting bus would mean leaving the secure area and passing security again, so walking was faster. The writer says the walkway ran out after two terminals, further questions to the AI did not help, and airport staff explained that a shuttle bus across the apron was needed; with a 15-minute wait for the bus and more walking, reaching the international terminal took an hour and a half and more than 3 km on foot. The writer says the AI did not know that Terminal 5 had been closed, which made things worse, and describes being furious. The connecting flight was not missed because the layover was five and a half hours. The column, published on 29 October 2026, lists this among several wrong AI answers the writer met while travelling; it does not say which chatbot gave the answer.
Core concern Low reported severity Media Coverage
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 31/10/2026
Oct 2026South KoreaUnidentified voice-cloning tool
The Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) said on 29 October 2026 that an employee at its office in South Korea had recently been phoned by a voice that sounded like DI's chief executive. According to DI, the voice spoke Danish and asked the employee to start a payment in connection with a supposedly confidential matter; DI states that it was not the chief executive and that the voice was created with artificial intelligence. DR reports that the call took place the previous week and sought the transfer of about half a million dollars (3.3 million kroner); DI's cybersecurity adviser told DR the callers said it concerned a confidential acquisition abroad. According to DR, after claiming a bad line the caller moved to WhatsApp, writing from a profile with the chief executive's name and photo. DI says the attempt was detected before any money was transferred, partly through internal controls, and that it reported the case to the police. The chief executive, who heard the recording, told DR it was convincing enough to have fooled his mother and called the experience unpleasant and frightening; on LinkedIn he wrote that it sent a chill down his spine that someone had used his person and voice against his colleagues. How DI established that the voice was AI-generated is not stated.
Core concern Low reported severity Media Coverage
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 5 sources, 4 underlying accounts · Added 31/10/2026
29 Oct 2026TaiwanUnidentified voice-cloning tool
A recording that imitated the voice of Puma Shen (Shen Po-yang), the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate for mayor of Taipei, appeared on Threads late on 29 October 2026 under a caption calling it a suspected private recording; in it the voice admitted taking kickbacks from US arms purchases. Taiwan's Investigation Bureau said its forensic check confirmed the audio as deepfake content, and Taoyuan prosecutors said a man had made the clip with a highly realistic imitation of Shen's voice and spread it on social media. Prosecutors arrested him on 30 October, seized his phone and sought his detention for spreading falsehoods by a deepfake-voice method to make a candidate lose, an offence under the election law that carries up to seven years in prison. The Taoyuan District Court released him on NT$100,000 bail with an eight-month travel ban, CNA reports. At the hearing he admitted spreading the clip but said he had downloaded it from Facebook, and the court found the file did not yet show a link to whoever originally made it, TVBS reports. Shen said his team had taken legal action against those who made and shared the clip. The man is not named here.
Core concern Medium reported severity Criminal Charges
AI involvement supported · Causal attribution supported · 5 sources, 2 underlying accounts · Added 31/10/2026
16 Sept 2026UkraineUnidentified image tool
A district court in Ukraine's Poltava region fined the mother of a school pupil on 22 October 2026 after finding she had failed in her duty to bring up her son, who, according to the case materials as reported, used a neural network on 16 September 2026 to generate fake nude photos of his teacher from her image without her consent and sent one to a classmate. The mother admitted the offence and confirmed her son had made such images, saying he sent only one to a classmate and that she did not know how the photos spread further. The court imposed an administrative fine of 850 hryvnias plus court fees. The report does not name the AI tool, and no statement from the teacher is reported.
Core concern Medium reported severity Regulatory Action
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution supported · 1 source · Added 30/10/2026
14 Oct 2026 to 29 Oct 2026Event location unknownClaude Code (reported)
In a GitHub issue filed on 29 October 2026, a Claude Code user says that on 14 October they asked the agent to build a hook kit for one project, and it wired the kit's 18 hooks into their user-level settings and put the project's config in the parent folder of all their projects, so every session and project ran that project's rules and gates. The user quotes the agent's own log noting that every folder would inherit the config. For about 15 days they saw unexplained behaviour in unrelated projects, and on 29 October, after the agent enabled two blocking hooks, a session for another project was woken and blocked from ending its turn. The user had all the hooks removed; nothing was deleted.
Core concern Low reported severity
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source · Added 30/10/2026