Description: 3M-retained expert Josh Autenrieth reportedly submitted an expert report substantially generated with ChatGPT after prompting it to show 3M was "0% at fault" for a 2020 Houston industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes. Plaintiffs were thereby presented with purported expert evidence substantially drafted toward a requested conclusion by an AI system, prompting extensive discovery and trial scrutiny.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI , Large language model developers and Chatbot developers developed an AI system deployed by Josh Autenrieth , Expert witnesses and engineers, which harmed Plaintiffs in Watson Grinding explosion litigation , Legal system , Judicial integrity , Epistemic integrity and Courts.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Large language models , ChatGPT , Chatbots and AI-assisted legal drafting systems
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Incident ID
1645
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2026-06-11
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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An expert witness testifying in a lawsuit about liability for a Houston explosion that killed three people and destroyed roughly 200 homes used ChatGPT to write significant portions of his "expert report." The man, who was hired by the indu…
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