{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0010",
 "incident_id": "2025-10-west-midlands-police-copilot-intel-error",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-01-14",
 "date_occurred": "2025-10-24",
 "title": "West Midlands Police used Copilot-generated intelligence containing a fabricated match to justify a fan ban",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "enterprise_assistant",
 "initial_vector": "none_adversarial",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "retrieval",
  "summarisation_into_official_record"
 ],
 "target_product": "Microsoft Copilot",
 "target_vendor": "Microsoft",
 "autonomy_level": "assistant",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "wrongful_decision",
  "civil_liberties_harm",
  "misinformation"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "Maccabi Tel Aviv away supporters banned from a November 2025 Europa League match",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI09"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "hallucination_in_official_record",
   "public_sector_use",
   "accountability_gap"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "police intelligence review process",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "Chief Constable apologised and corrected evidence given to MPs",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/14/west-midlands-police-chief-apologises-ai-error-maccabi-tel-aviv-ban",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1400"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Craig Guildford told the home affairs select committee on Monday that the inclusion of a fictitious match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and West Ham in police intelligence “arose as a result of a use of Microsoft Copilot”.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "AI Incident Database incident 1400; AIAAIC2182. Borderline for an agent corpus (retrieval assistant, not tool-using agent) but included because the assistant's output entered an official decision record with real consequences.",
 "risk_category": "bias_fairness",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "reliability",
  "brand_trust"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Wrongful Automated Decision & Rights Harm",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "human_acted_on_output",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "Copilot produced fabricated intelligence; officers used it to justify the ban",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_adversarial",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "abuse_detection"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1400
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI09",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "microsoft",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "human_manipulation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Wrongful Automated Decision & Rights Harm",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI09 (eai_category=human_manipulation)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}