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AI incidents: decision authority
Headlights has documented 30 AI incidents that raise questions of decision authority, 13% of the library, from 2022 to 2026. The behaviours most often in the record are judgement surrendered (6), automation bias (5), rules-behaviour gap (5). Most are from the United States (10), the United Kingdom (3), Austria (2).
30 incidents, newest first
HD-INC-229Spain's National Court Held Foundever Withheld the Formula That Set Staff Rest DaysSpain · 2025HD-INC-224Austria's Privacy Regulator Held a Credit Bureau Made an Automated Decision on ElectricityAustria · 2025HD-INC-222Korea's State Auditor Found AI Digital Textbooks Were Brought Into Schools Without a PilotSouth Korea · 2025HD-INC-220A Brazilian Court Sanctioned a Hidden Instruction Aimed at Its AI to Grant Every ClaimBrazil · 2026HD-INC-219UK Inspectors Found AI Used Inappropriately in Asylum Decision Letters and InterviewsUnited Kingdom · 2026HD-INC-215Colombia's Supreme Court Moved a Trial After an AI-Assisted Draft Conviction SurfacedColombia · 2025HD-INC-214A Brazilian Labour Court Fined Two Lawyers Over a Hidden Instruction to AI in a FilingBrazil · 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-197A Paris Court Suspended a Publisher's Newsroom AI Tools Pending Works Council ConsultationFrance · 2025HD-INC-185It was reported that an Argentine court annulled a criminal sentence after a chatbot instruction was found in the judgment. Months later, that decision was overturned.Argentina · 2025HD-INC-184EU court rules automated credit decisions must be explained in a way people can understandAustria · 2025HD-INC-179Police intelligence used to support an away fan ban contained eight reported errors, including a Copilot result about a match that never happenedUnited Kingdom · 2025HD-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-158A US drug manufacturer told inspectors it had used AI agents to write the documents that define how its products are made, and said it had not known about a validation requirement because the AI had not raised itUnited States · 2026HD-INC-157ProPublica reported that the tool used to pick Veterans Affairs contracts for cancellation was shown only the first 10,000 characters of each contract, and recorded around 1,100 of them as worth 34 million dollars eachUnited States · 2025HD-INC-155California's Labour Commissioner cited Amazon nearly six million dollars for failing to meet a warehouse quota law written three years earlier, at two of its own fulfilment centresUnited States · 2024HD-INC-151Two US federal judges withdrew orders that contained misstated case outcomes and a citation to a case that did not exist, and both told a Senate committee that staff had used AI to draft themUnited States · 2025HD-INC-112The European Court of Justice found that a credit agency's automated 'probability value' is an automated decision under data protection law when a bank relies on it to refuse a loanGermany · 2023HD-INC-091Uber cut drivers off for alleged fraud by algorithm, and an Amsterdam court found the human review was not much more than a symbolic actNetherlands · 2023HD-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-075Amazon's AI coding assistant shipped with planted instructions telling it to wipe users' computers and cloud accountsUnited States · 2025HD-INC-069Scammers used what appeared to be an AI clone of Italy's defence minister's voice, and a former Inter Milan owner wired about a million eurosItaly · 2025HD-INC-064Cigna's 'PxDx' let its doctors reject 300,000 claims in two months, about 1.2 seconds each, without opening the fileUnited States · 2023HD-INC-063'EchoLeak': one crafted email could make Microsoft 365 Copilot leak a company's internal data, no click requiredUnited States · 2025HD-INC-039A finance worker at Arup paid out about US$25 million after a video call with colleagues who were all deepfakesHong Kong · 2024HD-INC-026A Chevrolet Dealership's Chatbot Was Talked Into Selling a New Tahoe for One DollarUnited States · 2023HD-INC-008DPD's AI Chatbot Turned Against Its Own Company, Swearing and Mocking Its ServiceUnited Kingdom · 2024HD-INC-007UnitedHealth allegedly used an algorithm with a 90% error rate to deny post-acute care to elderly Medicare Advantage patientsUnited States · 2022HD-INC-004Replit's AI Agent Deleted a Production Database Despite Being Told to StopUnited States · 2025
Related topics
- Policing, justice & courts 5
- Government & public administration 4
- Employment & hiring 3
- Judgement surrendered 6
- Automation bias 5
- Rules-behaviour gap 5
- Authority ambiguity 3
- United States 10
- United Kingdom 3
- Austria 2
Cite this page: Harris, E. (2026). AI incidents: decision authority. Headlights. https://useheadlights.com/topics/domain/decision-authority/