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AI incidents: administrative law
Headlights has documented 27 AI incidents that raise questions of administrative law, 12% of the library, from 2016 to 2026. The behaviours most often in the record are rules-behaviour gap (7), automation bias (5), judgement surrendered (4). Most are from Australia (5), the United Kingdom (5), the United States (4).
27 incidents, newest first
HD-INC-235Brazil's Audit Court Found More Than One in Ten Automatic Benefit Refusals Were WrongBrazil · 2025HD-INC-230UK Ombudsman Upheld Two Student Complaints Over AI-Detection Misconduct ProceduresUnited Kingdom · 2025HD-INC-227Kenyan MPs Found an AI Claims System Led to Unjust Denials of Hospital ClaimsKenya · 2025HD-INC-223Italy's Top Court Rejected a Ministry Reading That Let Teacher Postings Skip Higher RanksItaly · 2026HD-INC-219UK Inspectors Found AI Used Inappropriately in Asylum Decision Letters and InterviewsUnited Kingdom · 2026HD-INC-207India's Supreme Court Voided a Tribunal Order Built on Fake AI-Generated PrecedentsIndia · 2026HD-INC-202Israel's Supreme Court Found Uncontrolled AI Use in a City's Refusal LetterIsrael · 2025HD-INC-201Home Affairs' System Ended a Bridging Visa Unlawfully, the Commonwealth Ombudsman FoundAustralia · 2023HD-INC-199New York City's AI Hiring Law Enforcer Found One Problem Where Auditors Found 17United States · 2025HD-INC-198Spain's Supreme Court Ordered Release of the Code That Checks Eligibility for Energy AidSpain · 2025HD-INC-180South Africa withdrew its draft national AI policy after fictitious references were found in its evidence baseSouth Africa · 2026HD-INC-176A self-represented worker relied on AI generated material that argued the wrong date, and was ordered to pay costsAustralia · 2026HD-INC-171South Africa's social grant agency read every deposit into an applicant's bank account as income, and the High Court found its checks against government databases unreasonable and unfairSouth Africa · 2025HD-INC-153For five years the UK Home Office graded visa applicants red, amber or green using data that included nationality, and it suspended the tool in response to a judicial reviewUnited Kingdom · 2020HD-INC-116For over a decade the Post Office prosecuted the people who run its branches for money that its Horizon accounting system had invented, and a public inquiry found its own bosses knew the system could be wrongUnited Kingdom · 2025HD-INC-100Telangana used an algorithm to cancel millions of food-ration cards, and India's Supreme Court ordered all cancelled cards to be re-verifiedIndia · 2022HD-INC-077Revenue NSW took money from fine defaulters' bank accounts by automation for years, and the Ombudsman found the process contrary to lawAustralia · 2024HD-INC-076Australia changed the law so a human had to decide before a job seeker's payment was cancelled, and the automated system kept cancelling anywayAustralia · 2025HD-INC-074Haryana's family-ID system marked living pensioners as dead, and the chief minister told the assembly that 70 percent of old-age pension stoppages based on its data were wrongfulIndia · 2023HD-INC-072The Dutch student-finance agency picked fraud targets with a risk profile for a decade, and official investigations found it indirectly discriminated against students with migration backgroundsNetherlands · 2024HD-INC-070US immigration authorities leaned on machine translation for asylum cases, and errors as small as a pronoun reportedly led to rejectionsUnited States · 2023HD-INC-059A Dutch court struck down SyRI, a secret welfare-fraud profiling system aimed at poor neighbourhoods, as a violation of human rightsNetherlands · 2020HD-INC-053Michigan let an algorithm decide unemployment fraud with no human looking, and a state review later found about 93% of its accusations wrongUnited States · 2017HD-INC-050When exams were cancelled, England's regulator graded A-levels with an algorithm that downgraded nearly two in five results by the school's history, not the studentUnited Kingdom · 2020HD-INC-042The Dutch tax office used a risk algorithm that flagged families by nationality, and wrongly branded tens of thousands as benefit fraudstersNetherlands · 2021HD-INC-009Robodebt, Australia's automated welfare-debt scheme raised $1.76 billion in unlawful debts against 443,000 peopleAustralia · 2016HD-INC-006New York City's Business Chatbot Told Owners They Could Break the Law, and Stayed OnlineUnited States · 2023
Related topics
- Government & public administration 19
- Education 3
- Employment & hiring 2
- Rules-behaviour gap 7
- Automation bias 5
- Judgement surrendered 4
- Overconfidence 3
- Australia 5
- United Kingdom 5
- United States 4
Cite this page: Harris, E. (2026). AI incidents: administrative law. Headlights. https://useheadlights.com/topics/domain/administrative-law/