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A list of all 234 incidents: ID, title, year, country, industry and the main behaviour in the record, each linked to the full entry. Free for non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0, with credit to Headlights. For commercial use, contact ellie@useheadlights.com. Updated 14 October 2026, and every time an entry is added.
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- Zenodo (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23312145)Archived at CERN's research repository
- Hugging FaceThe same index on Hugging Face Datasets
- KaggleThe same index on Kaggle, refreshed weekly
Harris, E. (2026). Headlights AI Incident Library: index [Data set]. Zenodo.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23312145
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0. Please link the entries you use. The full write-ups are read on the site. The Headlights code is separately licensed under Apache 2.0.
| Field | What it holds |
|---|---|
incidentId | Permanent ID, HD-INC-001 onward. Never reused. |
url | The full entry on useheadlights.com. |
title | Headline. |
year | Year of the defining event or finding. |
country | Where it happened. |
industry | One of thirteen industries. |
behaviourPrimary | Main human behaviour in the record, or Not established. |
Behaviour tags are Headlights' reading of the public record, never a finding by any court, regulator or company. The library is curated, not a census, so counts show what the record holds rather than how often AI fails. See how Headlights works, the findings and the topics.