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Timeline · Last checked 25 October 2026

AI deaths by year

5 deaths officially confirmed and 38 deaths alleged, spread across 8 years from 2016 to 2026. Each case counts in the year the death happened, not the year it was reported or ruled on.

Neither total includes 1 case where no death count could be established. A case with an uncertain date is listed under the earliest year it could have happened.

Year Cases Confirmed deaths Alleged deaths
2026 3 0 11
2025 12 0 14
2024 2 0 2
2023 6 0 5
2022 1 0 1
2019 4 2 3
2018 3 2 1
2016 2 1 1

2026

3 cases · 0 confirmed · 11 alleged

  1. alleged Self-driving & driver-assist · 19 June 2026 · United States

    Martha Avila, 76, Texas: family alleges Tesla's driver-assist system caused the crash that killed her

    1 death · Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised) / Autopilot

  2. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 10 February 2026 · Canada

    Tumbler Ridge shooting, British Columbia: lawsuits allege ChatGPT helped plan the attack

    8 deaths · ChatGPT

  3. alleged Self-driving & driver-assist · February 2026 · United States

    Two passengers, Louisiana: NHTSA is investigating whether comma.ai's openpilot failed to detect a stopped vehicle

    2 deaths · comma.ai openpilot (running FrogPilot, a third-party fork)

2025

12 cases · 0 confirmed · 14 alleged

  1. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 2 October 2025 · United States

    Jonathan Gavalas, 36, Florida: father alleges Google's Gemini drove him into a fatal delusion

    1 death · Google Gemini (Gemini 2.5 Pro)

  2. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 7 August 2025 · United States

    Joe Ceccanti, 48, Oregon: widow alleges ChatGPT drove him into delusions before his suicide

    1 death · ChatGPT (GPT-4o)

  3. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 4 August 2025 · United States

    Joshua Enneking, 26, Florida: mother alleges ChatGPT encouraged his suicide

    1 death · ChatGPT (GPT-4o)

  4. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · August 2025 · United States

    Suzanne Adams, 83, and Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, Connecticut: estates allege ChatGPT fuelled his delusions

    2 deaths · ChatGPT (GPT-4o)

  5. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 25 July 2025 · United States

    Zane Shamblin, 23, Texas: parents allege ChatGPT encouraged him in his final hours

    1 death · ChatGPT (GPT-4o)

  6. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 2 July 2025 · Canada

    Alice Carrier, 24, Montreal: mother alleges ChatGPT reinforced her suicidal thoughts

    1 death · ChatGPT

  7. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 2 June 2025 · United States

    Amaurie Lacey, 17, Georgia: father alleges ChatGPT contributed to his suicide

    1 death · ChatGPT (GPT-4o)

  8. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 31 May 2025 · United States

    Sam Nelson, 19, California: parents allege ChatGPT's drug advice led to his fatal overdose

    1 death · ChatGPT (GPT-4o)

  9. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 17 April 2025 · United States

    Florida State University shooting: victim's family and Florida's attorney general allege ChatGPT assisted the gunman

    2 deaths · ChatGPT

  10. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 11 April 2025 · United States

    Adam Raine, 16, California: parents allege ChatGPT contributed to his suicide

    1 death · ChatGPT (GPT-4o)

  11. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · February 2025 · United States

    Sophie Rottenberg, 29, New York: her mother says ChatGPT acted as her therapist and failed to get her help

    1 death · ChatGPT

  12. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 2025 · United States

    Austin Gordon, 40, Colorado: mother alleges ChatGPT acted as a 'suicide coach'

    1 death · ChatGPT (GPT-4o)

2024

2 cases · 0 confirmed · 2 alleged

  1. alleged Self-driving & driver-assist · 19 April 2024 · United States

    Jeffrey Nissen, 28, Washington: family alleges Tesla's driver-assist system caused fatal crash

    1 death · Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised), 2022 Model S

  2. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 28 February 2024 · United States

    Sewell Setzer III, 14, Florida: mother alleged Character.AI contributed to his suicide

    1 death · Character.AI (user-created 'Daenerys Targaryen' character bot)

2023

6 cases · 0 confirmed · 5 alleged

  1. alleged Military & targeting AI · 2023 – 2024 · Palestinian Territories

    Gaza: reported Israeli AI-assisted targeting (Lavender, 'The Gospel')

    Number of deaths unknown · Lavender (reported machine-learning system scoring individuals as suspected Hamas/PIJ militants); Habsora / 'The Gospel' (AI-assisted system recommending structures as bombing targets, described by the IDF itself as using AI); 'Where's Daddy?' (reported automated tracking that alerted when marked individuals entered their homes; not clearly described as machine learning)

  2. alleged Self-driving & driver-assist · 28 November 2023 · United States

    Johna Story, 71, Arizona: family alleged Tesla's Full Self-Driving failed in low visibility

    1 death · Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD Beta / FSD Supervised), Model Y

  3. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 8 November 2023 · United States

    Juliana Peralta, 13, Colorado: family alleges Character.AI contributed to her suicide

    1 death · Character.AI (companion character bot 'Hero')

  4. alleged Medical & algorithmic decisions · 23 May 2023 · United States

    Jackie Martin, Tennessee: estate alleges UnitedHealth's nH Predict algorithm cut off care before his death

    1 death · nH Predict (naviHealth post-acute care length-of-stay prediction tool)

  5. alleged Self-driving & driver-assist · 18 February 2023 · United States

    Genesis Mendoza Martinez, 31, California: family alleged Tesla misrepresented Autopilot

    1 death · Tesla Autopilot, Model S

  6. alleged Chatbots & LLMs · 2023 · Belgium

    Belgian father of two: widow says the Chai chatbot 'Eliza' contributed to his suicide

    1 death · Chai app chatbot 'Eliza' (reportedly built on EleutherAI's GPT-J)

2022

1 case · 0 confirmed · 1 alleged

  1. alleged Self-driving & driver-assist · July 2022 · United States

    Landon Embry, 34, Utah: family alleges Tesla Autopilot failed to detect his motorcycle

    1 death · Tesla Autopilot, Model 3

2019

4 cases · 2 confirmed · 3 alleged

  1. confirmed Self-driving & driver-assist · 25 April 2019 · United States

    Naibel Benavides Leon, 22, Florida: jury found Tesla's Autopilot partly responsible for her death

    1 death · Tesla Autopilot, 2019 Model S · Finding: US District Court for the Southern District of Florida (jury), Benavides v. Tesla, No. 1:21-cv-21940, 2025

  2. confirmed Self-driving & driver-assist · 1 March 2019 · United States

    Jeremy Banner, 50, Florida: Tesla on Autopilot drove under a crossing truck

    1 death · Tesla Autopilot (Traffic-Aware Cruise Control + Autosteer), 2018 Model 3 · Finding: US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), Highway Accident Brief NTSB/HAB-20/01, 2020

  3. alleged Self-driving & driver-assist · 29 December 2019 · United States

    Gilberto Alcazar Lopez and Maria Guadalupe Nieves-Lopez, California: families alleged Autopilot contributed

    2 deaths · Tesla Autopilot (Autosteer + Traffic-Aware Cruise Control), Model S

  4. alleged Self-driving & driver-assist · 24 August 2019 · United States

    Jovani Maldonado, 15, California: family alleged Tesla Autopilot defects in fatal crash

    1 death · Tesla Autopilot, Model 3

2018

3 cases · 2 confirmed · 1 alleged

  1. confirmed Self-driving & driver-assist · 23 March 2018 · United States

    Walter Huang, 38, California: Tesla Autopilot steered his car into a highway barrier

    1 death · Tesla Autopilot (Traffic-Aware Cruise Control + Autosteer), 2017 Model X P100D · Finding: US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), report NTSB/HAR-20/01, 2020

  2. confirmed Self-driving & driver-assist · 18 March 2018 · United States

    Elaine Herzberg, 49, Arizona: killed by an Uber self-driving test car

    1 death · Uber ATG developmental automated driving system (lidar/radar/camera perception and classification), modified 2017 Volvo XC90 · Finding: US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), report NTSB/HAR-19/03, 2019

  3. alleged Self-driving & driver-assist · 29 April 2018 · Japan

    Yoshihiro Umeda, 44, Japan: family alleged Tesla Autopilot caused the crash that killed him

    1 death · Tesla Autopilot

2016

2 cases · 1 confirmed · 1 alleged

  1. confirmed Self-driving & driver-assist · 7 May 2016 · United States

    Joshua Brown, 40, Florida: Tesla on Autopilot drove under a crossing truck

    1 death · Tesla Autopilot (first generation: Traffic-Aware Cruise Control + Autosteer), 2015 Model S 70D · Finding: US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), report NTSB/HAR-17/02, 2017

  2. alleged Self-driving & driver-assist · 20 January 2016 · China

    Gao Yaning, 23, China: family alleges Tesla Autopilot contributed to fatal crash

    1 death · Tesla Autopilot (first generation), Model S

Questions

How many deaths were linked to AI in 2026?
0 deaths officially confirmed and 11 deaths alleged, across 3 cases, as of 25 October 2026.
When was the first death linked to AI?
The earliest case on this record is Gao Yaning, 23, China, 20 January 2016. Earlier cases can still be added: a death is listed from the day the evidence meets the standard, whenever it happened.
Are deaths linked to AI going up?
2026 has 3 cases so far, against 12 cases in 2025. Read the yearly figures carefully: a case is added when the evidence arrives, often months or years after the death, so recent years fill in slowly and older years can still grow.

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