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AI incidents in education
Headlights has documented 12 AI incidents in education, 5% of the library, from 2020 to 2025. The behaviours most often in the record are overconfidence (3), rules-behaviour gap (3), automation bias (2). Most are from the United States (5), the United Kingdom (2), Australia (1).
12 incidents, newest first
HD-INC-230UK Ombudsman Upheld Two Student Complaints Over AI-Detection Misconduct ProceduresUnited Kingdom · 2025HD-INC-222Korea's State Auditor Found AI Digital Textbooks Were Brought Into Schools Without a PilotSouth Korea · 2025HD-INC-203An Online University Required Facial Recognition for Classes, and Italy Fined ItItaly · 2024HD-INC-202Israel's Supreme Court Found Uncontrolled AI Use in a City's Refusal LetterIsrael · 2025HD-INC-187A state inspector general found a school's AI gun alert was raised on a pupil's hand movement, not on the bag of crisps in the reporting, and that it was sent to fifteen people, ten of them policeUnited States · 2025HD-INC-164Researchers ran AI-written comments under fabricated personas at Reddit users for four months, and the community learned of it only when the researchers told the moderators afterwardsSwitzerland · 2025HD-INC-130Universities and exam boards watched students through remote-proctoring AI that flagged them for cheating, and its face-detection worked so poorly on darker-skinned students that some could not start their examsUnited States · 2021HD-INC-117A Wisconsin school system's dropout-prediction algorithm raised false alarms far more often for some students than others, and the state's own analysis had already found it unfairUnited States · 2023HD-INC-103Los Angeles schools committed about six million dollars to an AI chatbot showcased in spring, and its vendor had collapsed by JulyUnited States · 2024HD-INC-062An Australian university accused thousands of students of AI misconduct using a detector it knew was unreliableAustralia · 2025HD-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-018iTutorGroup's Hiring Software Automatically Rejected Older Applicants Because of Their AgeUnited States · 2020
Related topics
- Overconfidence 3
- Rules-behaviour gap 3
- Automation bias 2
- Group conformity 1
- United States 5
- United Kingdom 2
- Australia 1
Cite this page: Harris, E. (2026). AI incidents in education. Headlights. https://useheadlights.com/topics/industry/education/