A senior West Midlands policing figure has stepped down amid a national controversy after an inspectorate review found that the intelligence used to justify banning Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from an Aston Villa Europa League match included fabricated information generated by an AI assistant —...
West Midlands Police’s decision to advise banning Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from an Aston Villa match — a move that led to a national political backlash — has been revealed to rest in part on an erroneous intelligence item produced by Microsoft Copilot, a revelation that exposes how unverified...