AI COMPANION MORTALITY DATABASE (2023 —)

A public register of deaths in which interaction with an AI chatbot was alleged as a contributing factor. Entries are published only at the two highest of three evidence tiers: juridical, meaning court filings or government acknowledgment, or journalistic, meaning three or more independent outlets, primary-source reporting from a single major outlet, or platform acknowledgment. Single-source and unverified reports are tracked internally and never published.