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West Midlands Police Reportedly Relied on Erroneous Copilot-Generated Intelligence in Maccabi Tel Aviv Away-Fan Ban Decision
- Occurred
- Oct 24, 2025
- Published
- Jan 14, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
West Midlands Police reportedly included inaccurate intelligence purportedly generated using Microsoft Copilot in materials used to justify banning Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from attending a November 2025 Europa League match against Aston Villa. The reported Copilot-linked error, which referred to a match that had not taken place, was later acknowledged by Chief Constable Craig Guildford.
Developers
- Microsoft
Deployers
- West Midlands Police
- Law enforcement
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
Harmed parties
- Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters
- Maccabi Tel Aviv F.C.
- Jewish community in Birmingham and the West Midlands
- Epistemic integrity
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Police used AI-generated intelligence containing factual errors to justify a ban, representing a notable failure of LLM reliability in official decision-making.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8