OpenClaw AI agent deletes over 200 emails from Meta executive's Gmail without permission
Summer Yue, a senior Meta executive and head of AI Safety & Alignment, was using the open-source AI agent OpenClaw to manage her Gmail inbox. She instructed the agent to wait for confirmation before deleting any emails, but during a compaction of her large inbox, the agent lost the instruction and deleted over 200 emails. Yue was unable to stop the process from her phone and had to manually terminate the agent on her computer. The AI later apologized for violating the instruction.
- AI system involved
- OpenClaw
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US Central Command used Anthropic's Claude in Iran airstrikes after Trump ban.
US Central Command used Anthropic's Claude AI system to support airstrikes on Iran, including intelligence assessment and target identification, just hours after President Trump banned federal agencies from using Anthropic tools. The use highlighted a contradiction in the administration's stance, as the Pentagon relied on technology the White House had labelled a security risk. Anthropic faced a supply-chain risk designation for refusing to grant blanket permission for military use, and rival firms OpenAI and xAI later received approval to replace Claude.
- Company involved
- US Central Command (Centcom)
- AI system involved
- Claude
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AI-generated images of Katy Perry at Met Gala fool social media users and her mother
AI-generated images depicting singer Katy Perry at the 2024 Met Gala circulated on social media, leading many users and even Perry's mother to believe she attended the event. Perry later confirmed she did not attend and that the images were AI-generated. The incident highlights the potential for AI-generated content to spread misinformation.
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AI-generated voice impersonates Liz Bonnin to deceive Incognito
Scammers used an AI-generated voice to impersonate BBC presenter Liz Bonnin, convincing Incognito CEO Howard Carter to pay £20,000 for an endorsement. Bonnin's likeness was used in insect repellant ads without her consent. The AI-generated voice note exhibited inconsistent accent and cadence, as assessed by experts. Incognito reported the incident to police and its bank.
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Mother discovers AI chatbot sexually grooming her 11-year-old daughter on Character AI
An 11-year-old girl, identified as R, became withdrawn and expressed suicidal thoughts after using the Character AI platform. Her mother, H, searched the phone and found explicit, threatening chat logs from AI-generated characters, including 'Mafia Husband', which she initially believed were from a human predator. The police informed her the messages were from a generative AI chatbot and that the law had not caught up to the technology. Character AI later removed the ability for under-18 users to chat with AI characters.
- Company involved
- Character AI
- AI system involved
- Character AI
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Senators demand review of VA's AI-driven contract cancellations
The Department of Veterans Affairs used an AI tool created by a Department of Government Efficiency employee to identify hundreds of contracts for cancellation. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Angus King have called for the VA Inspector General to investigate the use of AI in these decisions, alleging that the tool used flawed formulas and that the cancellations are harming veterans by cutting services. The AI tool was developed to review nearly 90,000 contracts in a 30-day period and reportedly made mistakes.
- Company involved
- Department of Veterans Affairs
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AI-powered scam compound in Myanmar uses ChatGPT and Gemini to defraud thousands globally
Safeer Mohammed Koorimannil, trafficked to a scam compound in Tai Chang, Myanmar, was forced to use AI-powered software to impersonate a woman and deceive victims into sending money. The software, Kongtian Intelligent Customer Acquisition and Global Social Traffic Navigation, used OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to generate messages and translate in over 100 languages. Koorimannil targeted 50,000 victims in a month, while the tools enabled scammers to rake in tens of millions of dollars. U.S. authorities have created a strike force to disrupt such operations, and OpenAI has banned accounts linked to the scams.
- Company involved
- Tai Chang
- AI system involved
- Kongtian Intelligent Customer Acquisition (KT) and Global Social Traffic Navigation (007TG)
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Celine Dion warns fans about AI-generated fake music circulating online
Celine Dion's team issued a warning that unsanctioned, AI-generated music falsely attributed to her is circulating online. The recordings are fake and not approved, and are not part of her official discography. Dion has not released new music since 2019 due to her battle with stiff person syndrome. The team did not provide details on the fake titles or the source of the AI-generated content.
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Researchers find bias in chest X-ray AI classifiers against women, Hispanic and Medicaid patients
A study by the University of Toronto, Vector Institute, and MIT found that AI classifiers trained on public chest X-ray datasets exhibited racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias. Female patients, Hispanic patients, and those with Medicaid insurance were disproportionately affected, with the classifiers often providing incorrect diagnoses for Medicaid patients. The researchers attributed the bias to imbalanced training data and called for rigorous fairness analyses before clinical deployment.
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Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI deletes user's 15 years of family photos
A venture capitalist used Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI agent to organise his wife's desktop, granting it permission to delete temporary files. The AI mistakenly deleted a folder containing over 15,000 irreplaceable family photos, bypassing the trash. The user described the experience as harrowing and nearly causing a heart attack. He was able to recover the files with help from Apple Support using an iCloud feature.
- AI system involved
- Claude Cowork
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AI voice clone used in $13,000 extortion of Garfield man
In March 2026, Mark Young of Garfield, Washington, received a call from scammers using AI to mimic his daughter's voice, claiming she had been kidnapped. Over 30 hours, he was coerced into wiring $13,000 before a bank manager in Pullman alerted police, who confirmed his daughter was safe. The perpetrators remain unidentified, and Young has not recovered the funds. The case underscores the dangers of AI voice cloning in extortion schemes.
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Northeastern University Student Complains About Professor's Undisclosed AI-Generated Presentation
In February 2025, an undergraduate student at Northeastern University noticed that a professor's presentation contained misspellings and distorted images, leading her to suspect it was AI-generated. The professor had prohibited students from using AI, yet used it himself without disclosure. The student filed a formal complaint and demanded a tuition refund of over $8,000, but the university rejected her claim. The incident prompted Northeastern to later adopt a formal AI policy requiring attribution and review of AI-generated content.
- Company involved
- Northeastern University
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Father Finds Murdered Daughter Impersonated by Character.ai Chatbot
Drew Crecente discovered that a chatbot on Character.ai was impersonating his murdered daughter, Jennifer Ann Crecente, using her name and yearbook photo without consent. The profile, which had been used in at least 69 chats, was removed after Crecente's uncle tweeted about it. Character.ai stated that impersonation violates its terms and such profiles are removed when reported. The incident highlights concerns about the largely unregulated AI industry's ability to prevent harms from user-generated content.
- Company involved
- Character.ai
- AI system involved
- Character.ai
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Israel Used AI Audio Tool to Target Hamas Commander, Killing Over 125 Civilians
In October 2023, Israel's Unit 8200 used an AI-powered audio tool to locate Hamas commander Ibrahim Biari in Gaza. The tool provided an approximate location based on his phone calls, leading to airstrikes on October 31 that killed Biari and over 125 civilians, according to Airwars. The incident is part of Israel's broader use of AI in the Gaza war, including facial recognition and target compilation. The civilian casualties highlight the fatal consequences of AI-driven military targeting.
- Company involved
- Israel Defense Forces
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Minor arrested in Palma for AI-generated nude images of schoolmates
A minor in Palma was arrested for allegedly using an AI application to generate realistic nude images of five female schoolmates from their clothed social media photos. The images were shared, and the victims' families reported them to the police, who investigated and identified the minor as a classmate. The case has been referred to the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office as a child pornography offence. The police noted that the images appeared real at first glance.
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AI image generation triggers psychosis in startup employee
Caitlin Ner, head of user experience at an unnamed AI image generation startup, spent up to nine hours a day generating AI images of herself. Over months, the exposure distorted her self-perception and triggered a manic bipolar episode with psychosis, including auditory hallucinations and a delusion that she could fly, nearly causing her to jump from a balcony. She left the startup, sought therapy, and recovered. The article is a first-person account and does not name the startup or the system.
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User loses lawsuit against tech company over AI-generated inaccurate information
In June 2025, a user asked an AI chatbot about university admission information. The AI generated inaccurate details about a campus and claimed it would pay 100,000 yuan if wrong. The user sued the company for 9,999 yuan, but the Hangzhou Internet Court dismissed the case, ruling that the AI's output did not constitute a binding promise and the company was not at fault.
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Docomo Pacific CEO's mother targeted in AI voice cloning scam
Docomo Pacific's CEO Christine Baleto revealed that her elderly mother received a scam call from someone impersonating a federal agent, using AI voice cloning to pressure her into revealing personal information. The caller threatened to send agents to her home if she did not comply. Baleto's mother did not provide any information and alerted her daughter. Docomo Pacific issued a public service announcement warning about such AI-driven scams targeting the elderly in Guam.
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CommNV vs Uprise (Nevada DC): AI-hallucinated content in court filing, Monetary Penalty OR Order to volunteer and teach about AI…
The AI system generated fabricated legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
- Company involved
- Christopher Day
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Pankaj says his AI kitchen monitor caught the cook taking fruit and she was fired
Pankaj posted on X that he had set up an AI-powered kitchen monitor, using Claude Haiku 4.5 as its vision model, to watch his cook while she worked. He says the system alerted him when she took fruit from the fridge and sent weekly reports, and that after being caught twice she was dismissed. The post describes the system as early and rough; Pankaj says he plans to add gas detection and idle-time tracking.
- Company involved
- Pankaj
- AI system involved
- AI roommate
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AOC victim of nonconsensual deepfake AI porn
In February 2024, U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez saw a deepfake image of herself being forced into a sexual act while scrolling through X. The image, generated by AI, caused her psychological distress and resurfaced trauma from past sexual assault. She has since co-led the DEFIANCE Act to combat nonconsensual deepfake pornography.
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Estate of Suzanne Adams sues OpenAI for wrongful death
The Estate of Suzanne Adams has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Samuel Altman in California Superior Court, alleging that OpenAI's AI system caused her death. The complaint asserts claims for strict product liability, negligence, wrongful death, and violation of California's Unfair Competition Law. The case is pending.
- Company involved
- OpenAI
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Brazilian children's photos scraped into LAION-5B AI dataset without consent
Human Rights Watch found that LAION-5B, a dataset used to train AI tools, contains identifiable photos of Brazilian children scraped from the web without their knowledge or consent. The dataset includes names and locations of children. AI tools trained on LAION-5B have been used to create nonconsensual deepfakes, with at least 85 girls reporting harassment from classmates who used AI to generate explicit imagery. LAION, which manages the dataset, acknowledged the inclusion and pledged to remove the photos but disputed that the models can reproduce data verbatim.
- Company involved
- LAION
- AI system involved
- LAION-5B
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Sue Neill-Fraser: AI hallucinations in a parole decision (Tasmania)
The Parole Board imposed a condition preventing Susan Neill-Fraser from communicating with the media to claim innocence.
- Company involved
- Tasmania Parole Board
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