Incident & Risk Monitor.
Tracking AI incidents, ethical controversies, and media coverage impacting the regulatory landscape.
| LOC | Date ↓ | Title & Summary | Incident Type | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 2026-01-22 | Abu Dhabi (ADGM) court orders law firm to pay costs after AI-hallucinated citations Trade press reported that the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) court imposed substantial indemnity costs against a law firm after court pleadings contained non-existent and misapplie... | Hallucination | View |
 | 2026-01-21 | 7th Circuit warns pro se litigants about AI-driven misquotes in appellate filings The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued an opinion addressing concerns that a self-represented appellant’s brief contained quotations that did not appear in cited ... | Regulatory Action | View |
 | 2026-01-20 | Kenya regulator confirms Worldcoin deleted biometric data after High Court order Kenya’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) confirmed that Tools for Humanity/Worldcoin deleted biometric data collected from Kenyan citizens. The deletion followed a... | Regulatory Action | View |
| | 2026-01-16 | Connecticut sanctions motion alleges AI-hallucinated citations in court filings In a Connecticut Superior Court case in Danbury, plaintiff’s counsel sought sanctions alleging that defense counsel filed motions containing fabricated and misquoted case law linke... | Hallucination | View |
 | 2026-01-16 | UK legal press reports calls for judges to stop reproducing AI-fake citations in rulings UK legal trade press reported growing calls for judges to avoid repeating AI-generated fake case citations verbatim when addressing misuse in judgments, due to concerns that reprod... | Regulatory Action | View |
| | 2026-01-16 | California AG orders xAI to halt Grok-generated nonconsensual sexual deepfakes and CSAM California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a cease-and-desist letter to xAI demanding immediate action to stop creation and distribution of deepfake nonconsensual intimate images... | Regulatory Action | View |
| | 2026-01-15 | US judiciary panel hears feedback on proposed Federal Rule 707 for AI-generated evidence The U.S. Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules held a public hearing on a proposed new Federal Rule of Evidence (Rule 707) addressing machine- or AI-generated ... | Regulatory Action | View |
 | 2026-01-13 | Ontario tribunal decision spotlights Grok-assisted filings with hallucinated authorities Canadian legal trade press reported on a Law Society Tribunal matter in which a lawyer (with a suspended licence) acknowledged using generative AI, specifically Grok, to research a... | Hallucination | View |
| | 2026-01-13 | California SB 574 set for hearing on attorney and arbitrator duties when using GenAI California legislative materials and contemporaneous reporting highlighted SB 574, a bill proposing statutory guardrails for attorneys’ and arbitrators’ use of generative AI. The b... | Regulatory Action | View |
| | 2026-01-13 | US Senate passes DEFIANCE Act creating civil claims for sexual deepfakes The U.S. Senate passed the DEFIANCE Act to create a federal civil right of action for people harmed by nonconsensual, sexually explicit digital forgeries (including AI-generated de... | Regulatory Action | View |