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AI incidents: legal authority
Headlights has documented 12 AI incidents that raise questions of legal authority, 5% of the library, from 2024 to 2026. The behaviour most often in the record is rules-behaviour gap (7). Most are from the United States (4), Italy (2), Argentina (1).
12 incidents, newest first
HD-INC-234Ireland's Regulator Found No Lawful Basis for Public Services Card Facial MatchingIreland · 2025HD-INC-231A Court Struck Part of Anthropic's Expert Evidence After Claude Changed a CitationUnited States · 2025HD-INC-213BC's Privacy Commissioner Ordered a City to Stop Its Licence Plate Recognition CamerasCanada · 2026HD-INC-203An Online University Required Facial Recognition for Classes, and Italy Fined ItItaly · 2024HD-INC-197A Paris Court Suspended a Publisher's Newsroom AI Tools Pending Works Council ConsultationFrance · 2025HD-INC-192An AI Character Claimed to Be a Licensed Psychiatrist. The Licence Number Was Allegedly Invalid.United States · 2026HD-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-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-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-093Ross trained an AI legal-research tool on Westlaw headnotes obtained after being refused a licence, and a US court ruled it was not fair use, in what commentators called the first such decisionUnited States · 2025HD-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-071Italy's privacy regulator fined OpenAI EUR 15 million over ChatGPT, and a court later threw out the fine without deciding whether the conduct was lawfulItaly · 2024
Related topics
- Government & public administration 3
- Policing, justice & courts 3
- Technology & software 2
- Rules-behaviour gap 7
- Authority ambiguity 1
- Automation bias 1
- Group conformity 1
- United States 4
- Italy 2
Cite this page: Harris, E. (2026). AI incidents: legal authority. Headlights. https://useheadlights.com/topics/domain/legal-authority/