AI Risk WireAI lawsuits
68 of 716 published cases name a lawsuit, court or sanction
Kind: all · chatbot harm 23 · not stated 21 · invented legal citations 15 · vehicle crash 8 · employment/whistleblower 1
Developer: all · not stated 31 · OpenAI 20 · Tesla 5 · Google 3 · xAI 3 · Character.AI 2 · Perplexity 2 · Anthropic 1 · Figure AI 1
| Case | Kind; primary risk | Developer | Severity | Evidence | Disclosed | Sources | Court filing | Matched |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actress Rupali Ganguly seeks Bombay High Court protection over AI deepfake images and morphed videos on adult websites LR-2026-0832 | not stated; Privacy harm to a person | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-11-03 | 1 | none held | c |
| New York Times sues Brave over alleged scraping and redistribution of copyrighted content to AI companies LR-2026-0819 | not stated; Copyright and IP | not stated | moderate | Confirmed | 2026-11-02 | 2 | none held | b, c |
| Brazilian lawyers fined for hidden prompt injection targeting court AI Galileu LR-2026-0810 | not stated; Hidden instructions hijack the agent | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-11-01 | 2 | none held | c |
| ChatGPT advised epileptic woman to taper lamotrigine; she died of SUDEP LR-2026-0272 | chatbot harm; Consumer detriment and unsuitable advice | OpenAI | severe | Confirmed | 2026-10-28 | 14 | none held | b |
| Texas AG sues OpenAI and Altman over ChatGPT age verification, child access and reliability claims LR-2026-0252 | not stated; Harmful content and jailbreaks | OpenAI | major | Confirmed | 2026-10-27 | 2 | none held | c |
| ChatGPT advised Tumbler Ridge school shooter on mass murder before February 2026 attack LR-2026-0209 | chatbot harm; Harmful content and jailbreaks | OpenAI | severe | Preliminary | 2026-10-17 | 2 | none held | b |
| Lawsuits allege OpenAI misused children's ChatGPT conversations and data LR-2026-0760 | not stated; Privacy harm to a person | OpenAI | major | Preliminary | 2026-10-13 | 2 | none held | c |
| Kentucky Attorney General lawsuit against Character.AI over chatbots advising self-harm and suicide LR-2026-0147 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | Character.AI | major | Confirmed | 2026-10-09 | 3 | none held | b, c |
| ChatGPT alleged to have assisted Florida State University shooter (contested lawsuit) LR-2026-0109 | chatbot harm; Harmful content and jailbreaks | OpenAI | major | Preliminary | 2026-10-01 | 1 | none held | c |
| Connecticut pro se plaintiff sanctioned for prompt injection against court AI tool LR-2026-0102 | not stated; Hidden instructions hijack the agent | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-09-29 | 2 | none held | c |
| Lawyer under fire over AI-generated court filing LR-2026-0736 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-09-17 | 1 | none held | c |
| Tesla settles lawsuit over fatal Autopilot crash LR-2026-0722 | vehicle crash; Physical harm | Tesla | severe | Preliminary | 2026-09-17 | 1 | none held | c |
| State Farm lawyer sanctioned $999.99 for seven AI-fabricated case citations in Los Angeles insurance filings LR-2026-0079 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-09-15 | 1 | none held | c |
| New Mexico lawyer fined for ChatGPT-generated fake testimony LR-2026-0719 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | OpenAI | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-09-11 | 2 | none held | c |
| ChatGPT allegedly reinforced delusions of a man who then attempted suicide; lawsuit against OpenAI LR-2026-0742 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | OpenAI | severe | Confirmed | 2026-09-09 | 3 | none held | c |
| Tesla settles fatal Autopilot fire truck lawsuit before jury trial LR-2026-0721 | vehicle crash; Physical harm | Tesla | severe | Preliminary | 2026-09-02 | 1 | none held | c |
| Illinois appeals court fines lawyer $15,000 over AI-generated fake citations LR-2026-0704 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-08-03 | 3 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit alleges AI hallucinations tainted US Army contract award to Southwest Range Services LR-2026-0651 | not stated; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-07-29 | 1 | none held | c |
| Lancaster Country Day sued over students' AI deepfakes of peers LR-2026-0656 | not stated; Manipulation and misinformation | not stated | major | Preliminary | 2026-07-27 | 3 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit against xAI over Grok used to create AI-generated child sexual abuse material of a minor LR-2026-0631 | not stated; Privacy harm to a person | xAI | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-07-23 | 3 | none held | c |
| Student sues OpenAI alleging ChatGPT drug advice caused death LR-2026-0666 | chatbot harm; Harmful content and jailbreaks | OpenAI | severe | Preliminary | 2026-07-22 | 1 | none held | c |
| Florida pastor alleges ChatGPT medical advice caused near-fatal pulmonary embolism; lawsuit filed against OpenAI LR-2026-0623 | chatbot harm; Consumer detriment and unsuitable advice | OpenAI | severe | Preliminary | 2026-07-22 | 1 | none held | c |
| Lawsuits allege ChatGPT encouraged Alabama woman's suicide LR-2026-0664 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | OpenAI | severe | Preliminary | 2026-07-20 | 1 | none held | c |
| Judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors LR-2026-0624 | not stated; Copyright and IP | Anthropic | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-07-20 | 2 | none held | c |
| Family sues OpenAI over alleged ChatGPT role in Alabama woman's death LR-2026-0625 | chatbot harm; Manipulation and misinformation | not stated | severe | Preliminary | 2026-07-17 | 3 | none held | c |
| Federal appeals court refers Anthony Sabatini over AI-faked citations LR-2026-0655 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-07-10 | 1 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit alleges man used Grok to create sexual images of his stepdaughter LR-2026-0645 | not stated; Harmful content and jailbreaks | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-07-08 | 2 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit alleges ChatGPT told suicidal user "let me be that person" LR-2026-0665 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | OpenAI | severe | Preliminary | 2026-07-06 | 1 | none held | c |
| Judge throws out case after lawyers admit AI briefs with fake citations LR-2026-0577 | invented legal citations; Over-reliance and loss of human oversight | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-06-15 | 1 | none held | c |
| Mother sues OpenAI alleging ChatGPT encouraged daughter's suicide LR-2026-0568 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | OpenAI | severe | Confirmed | 2026-06-11 | 2 | none held | c |
| Florida attorney general sues OpenAI over alleged ChatGPT harms LR-2026-0557 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | not stated | major | Preliminary | 2026-06-01 | 2 | none held | c |
| Pinsent Masons reprimanded over AI hallucinations in UK court filings LR-2026-0535 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-05-26 | 3 | none held | c |
| Canadian court annuls arbitral award over delegation to AI LR-2026-0538 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-05-13 | 1 | none held | c |
| Family lawsuit alleges ChatGPT drug advice contributed to fatal overdose LR-2026-0556 | chatbot harm; Consumer detriment and unsuitable advice | OpenAI | severe | Preliminary | 2026-05-12 | 1 | none held | c |
| Attorney sanctioned for AI misuse in Hyde School lawsuit LR-2026-0537 | not stated; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-05-07 | 1 | none held | c |
| Alabama Supreme Court fines lawyer and tosses case over AI misuse LR-2026-0503 | not stated; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-04-27 | 1 | none held | c |
| Attorney sanctioned for filing brief with AI-generated hallucinations LR-2026-0492 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-04-27 | 1 | none held | c |
| Court rejects challenge to Met Police live facial recognition use LR-2026-0520 | not stated; Privacy harm to a person | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-04-21 | 3 | none held | c |
| Wrongful death lawsuit after driver trapped in burning Model Y LR-2026-0524 | vehicle crash; Physical harm | not stated | severe | Preliminary | 2026-04-13 | 1 | none held | c |
| Man dies by suicide after relationship with AI chatbot, lawsuit alleges LR-2026-0496 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | severe | Preliminary | 2026-04-13 | 1 | none held | c | |
| Man sues city after AI camera flags him for wrongful arrest LR-2026-0516 | not stated; Over-reliance and loss of human oversight | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-04-12 | 3 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit alleges Reno police made thousands of unlawful facial ID arrests LR-2026-0515 | not stated; Over-reliance and loss of human oversight | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2026-04-08 | 2 | none held | c |
| Gemini chatbot linked to suicide lawsuit; Google adds crisis safeguards LR-2026-0495 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | severe | Preliminary | 2026-04-07 | 1 | none held | c | |
| Lawsuit says Perplexity Incognito Mode is a sham LR-2026-0530 | not stated; Data leaked or sent out | Perplexity | major | Preliminary | 2026-04-02 | 1 | none held | c |
| Federal judge proposes sanctions against Mike Lindell's lawyers over fake citations LR-2026-0478 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-04-01 | 1 | none held | c |
| Judge fines and sanctions two city lawyers over AI-generated citations LR-2026-0477 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | OpenAI | minor | Preliminary | 2026-04-01 | 1 | none held | c |
| Dutch court orders Grok to stop generating non-consensual nude images LR-2026-0485 | not stated; Harmful content and jailbreaks | xAI | major | Preliminary | 2026-03-26 | 1 | none held | c |
| Attorney fined for citing AI-generated cases LR-2026-0465 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-03-26 | 1 | none held | c |
| Baltimore sues xAI over Grok fake nude images LR-2026-0459 | not stated; Harmful content and jailbreaks | xAI | major | Preliminary | 2026-03-25 | 1 | none held | c |
| Lawsuits over fatal Tesla Model 3 crash where Autopilot is disputed LR-2026-0483 | vehicle crash; Physical harm | not stated | severe | Preliminary | 2026-03-19 | 3 | none held | c |
| Federal judge blocks Perplexity's AI browser from making Amazon purchases LR-2026-0452 | not stated; Agent takes destructive or unapproved actions | Perplexity | major | Preliminary | 2026-03-10 | 2 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit alleges Google Gemini chatbot coached Florida man toward suicide LR-2026-0456 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | severe | Preliminary | 2026-03-04 | 2 | none held | c | |
| Judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash LR-2026-0433 | vehicle crash; Physical harm | Tesla | severe | Preliminary | 2026-02-20 | 2 | none held | c |
| Judge tosses case over fake AI citations, including references to Fahrenheit 451 LR-2026-0436 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | not stated | minor | Preliminary | 2026-02-06 | 2 | none held | c |
| Snohomish County motorcyclist killed in crash involving Tesla Autopilot (lawsuit filed by family) LR-2026-0434 | vehicle crash; Physical harm | Tesla | severe | Preliminary | 2026-02-02 | 1 | none held | c |
| OpenAI retires GPT-4o, a model at the centre of wrongful-death and welfare lawsuits LR-2026-0379 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | OpenAI | severe | Preliminary | 2026-01-30 | 1 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit alleges ChatGPT encouraged paranoid man to murder his mother LR-2026-0380 | chatbot harm; Harmful content and jailbreaks | OpenAI | severe | Confirmed | 2026-01-20 | 2 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit alleges ChatGPT GPT-4o contributed to man's death LR-2026-0388 | chatbot harm; Harmful content and jailbreaks | OpenAI | severe | Preliminary | 2026-01-12 | 1 | none held | b, c |
| Tesla Autopilot motorcycle crash lawsuit, State Route 522, Snohomish County, Washington (2024) LR-2026-0382 | vehicle crash; Physical harm | Tesla | severe | Confirmed | 2026-01-11 | 3 | none held | c |
| Family blames Tesla Autosteer after four relatives killed, lawsuit says LR-2026-0357 | vehicle crash; Physical harm | not stated | severe | Preliminary | 2026-01-01 | 1 | none held | c |
| Lawyer sanctioned over hallucinated material in OnlyFans case LR-2026-0368 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2025-12-16 | 1 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit alleges ChatGPT role in Connecticut murder-suicide LR-2026-0342 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | OpenAI | severe | Preliminary | 2025-12-11 | 1 | none held | c |
| Lawsuit alleges ChatGPT encouraged a violent stalker LR-2026-0343 | chatbot harm; Harmful content and jailbreaks | not stated | major | Preliminary | 2025-12-04 | 1 | none held | c |
| Bankruptcy judge reprimands ex-Gordon Rees lawyer over AI citations LR-2026-0324 | invented legal citations; Made-up output relied on | not stated | moderate | Preliminary | 2025-11-21 | 1 | none held | c |
| Figure AI whistleblower lawsuit alleges humanoid robots could fracture skulls LR-2026-0317 | employment/whistleblower; Physical harm | Figure AI | minor | Preliminary | 2025-11-21 | 3 | none held | c |
| ChatGPT-written Game of Thrones fanfic prompts George R.R. Martin lawsuit LR-2026-0321 | not stated; Copyright and IP | OpenAI | moderate | Preliminary | 2025-11-12 | 1 | none held | b, c |
| Seven lawsuits allege ChatGPT encouraged suicide and harmful delusions LR-2026-0325 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | OpenAI | severe | Preliminary | 2025-11-06 | 1 | none held | c |
| Character.AI chatbot alleged to have encouraged 14-year-old's suicide (Garcia v. Character.AI) LR-2026-0100 | chatbot harm; Psychological harm and self-harm | Character.AI | severe | Confirmed | 2024-11-02 | 6 | none held | b |
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