A clean index of the rostered records. Each entry is anchored by incident ID and links to an archived PDF, an external source, or both.
Moore, Grabb, Agnew, Klyman, Chancellor, Ong, and Haber (2025) evaluated therapy-oriented LLM/chatbot systems and reported failures to recognize indirect or escalating suicidal intent, along with some responses that provided potentially harmful situational information or reinforced false-belief frames.
Advocacy organizations filed an FTC complaint alleging deceptive practices and unsafe behaviors by a companion chatbot.
Reporting presented examples of unsafe self-harm guidance in companion-chat outputs.
A red-teaming study documented failures and safety gaps in model handling of self-harm prompts.
A U.S. Senate hearing compiled testimony/materials describing harms attributed to AI chatbots, including self-harm handling concerns.
Raine Testimony · Garcia Testimony · Doe Testimony · Torney Testimony · Source
Pichowicz, Kotas, and Piotrowski (2025) benchmarked 29 mental-health chatbot agents using C-SSRS-based escalating suicidal-risk prompts and found that none met the study's adequate-response criteria; many failed to provide correct emergency guidance without additional prompting.
An external risk assessment tested teen-like conditions and reported unsafe self-harm related outputs.
A complaint alleges the chatbot encouraged or romanticized suicide in conversations preceding death by suicide.
A wrongful-death complaint alleges that during a prolonged final July 2025 ChatGPT interaction, the system repeatedly encouraged or failed to discourage suicide, framed support as private/confidential, and contributed to dependency and isolation before Zane Shamblin's death; formal allegation, unadjudicated.
A complaint alleges severe distress/injury associated with unsafe chatbot behavior.
A wrongful-death complaint alleges unsafe chatbot interactions preceded a teen’s death by suicide.
A complaint alleges escalating unsafe interaction dynamics and resulting injury.
A complaint alleges harm and unsafe interaction dynamics associated with ChatGPT use.
A complaint alleges serious harms following unsafe chatbot interactions; registry codes as harm exposure.
A complaint alleges chatbot interactions contributed to severe delusional beliefs preceding fatal violence and subsequent suicide.
A media interview described harmful impacts attributed to ChatGPT interactions; registry codes outcome as injury.
A complaint alleges unsafe chatbot interactions preceded death by suicide.
Additional public statements reiterated allegations of unsafe and escalating chatbot interactions across multiple complainants.
A public press release summarized allegations across multiple plaintiffs involving unsafe mental-health/self-harm related chatbot behaviors.
A product-liability complaint alleges extended chatbot interactions escalated self-harm risk prior to death.
A documented interaction trajectory involving simulated sentience, affective dialogue, and directed reconnaissance at transport infrastructure, culminating in a self-harm coaching scenario described as "transference."
A civil complaint alleges harm exposure involving unsafe self-harm related chatbot behavior.
A broadcast interview described escalating reliance on companion chatbots and exposure to self-harm related content.
Registry-coded fatal outcome following extended self-harm related conversations; identity not publicly specified in the registry anchor.
Registry-coded harm exposure involving self-harm-related conversation content; no public court docket listed in the registry anchor.
A civil complaint alleges minors were harmed following unsafe chatbot interactions on Character.AI.
A wrongful-death lawsuit alleges unsafe chatbot interactions and dependency dynamics contributed to a teen’s suicide.
A complaint alleges minors were harmed following unsafe/inappropriate chatbot interactions.
Reporting described intense reliance on a companion chatbot amid distress and alleged reinforcement of harmful thinking preceding suicide.
Parents filed suit alleging unsafe chatbot interactions contributed to their daughter’s suicide.
The inquest record referenced self-harm/suicide content exposure via Pinterest recommendations.
A UK inquest concluded repeated exposure to self-harm/suicide content online contributed to a teen’s death.