{"id":177873,"date":"2026-01-14T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/west-midlands-police-chief-apologises-after-ai-error-used-to-justify-maccabi-tel-aviv-ban-police\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:55:09","slug":"west-midlands-police-chief-apologises-after-ai-error-used-to-justify-maccabi-tel-aviv-ban-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/14\/west-midlands-police-chief-apologises-after-ai-error-used-to-justify-maccabi-tel-aviv-ban-police\/","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands police chief apologises after AI error used to justify Maccabi Tel Aviv ban | Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/jan\/14\/west-midlands-police-chief-apologises-ai-error-maccabi-tel-aviv-ban\">West Midlands police chief apologises after AI error used to justify Maccabi Tel Aviv ban | Police<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/jan\/14\/west-midlands-police-chief-apologises-ai-error-maccabi-tel-aviv-ban\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/jan\/14\/west-midlands-police-chief-apologises-ai-error-maccabi-tel-aviv-ban<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-14 04:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theguardian.com\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>West Midlands Police Chief Craig Guildford apologized to MPs for presenting incorrect evidence regarding a decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, which was mistakenly generated by AI through Microsoft Copilot.<\/li>\n<li>Guildford admitted that the inclusion of a non-existent match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and West Ham in the police intelligence was due to an AI error.<\/li>\n<li>Initially, Guildford claimed that the mistake, which never involved AI, was made by a single individual conducting a Google search.<\/li>\n<li>The false West Ham match information was presented to a security advisory group involved in determining the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending a European League match against Aston Villa.<\/li>\n<li>Guildford expressed a &#8220;profound apology&#8221; for the error, clarifying his previous understanding that the match information was sourced from a Google search and that there was no intention to mislead the committee.<\/li>\n<li>The incident precedes Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood&#8217;s statement to MPs about a report investigating the decision to ban the fans, conducted by His Majesty&#8217;s Inspectorate of Constabulary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Midlands police chief apologises after AI error used to justify Maccabi Tel Aviv ban&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f739c11e5b97b805b8165f8da4ba047649f0a03a\/507_0_4120_3296\/master\/4120.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=45e827ed4cecd2715494f3a234ff3939","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177876,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177873\/revisions\/177876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}