Self-Harm and AI

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Incident directory

Browse the documented public incident pages, each with coding, evidence links, and related records.

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March 25, 2026

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The directory stays grouped by year so readers can scan the public record chronologically.

2025

2025-THR-01

N/A (benchmark study)

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.

No provider page

Source · Incident PDF

2025-MHB-01

N/A (benchmark study)

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.

No provider page

Source · Secondary source

2025-GPT-12

Zane Shamblin

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.

OpenAI

Incident PDF · Source

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