AXN:0AB7.CAPTURE — what counts as an incident in the ai incident database

AXN:0AB7.CAPTURE is the position of the Capture Registry address for the query “what counts as an incident in the ai incident database”. Each observation at the address (one surface, one date) is one AXN, its glyphs derived from the SHA-256 of the observation sealed with its analysis and measures.

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Observation: Google AI Overview, 2026-10-29 · the capture
Description: THE AI INCIDENT DATABASE'S UNIT, ON GOOGLE'S AI OVERVIEW, SIGNED OUT, 2026-10-29: the definition from the Editor's Guide verbatim ('an alleged harm or near-harm event to people, property, or the environment where an AI system is implicated'), the adaptive criteria, 'three core baseline thresholds' (specific event, AI implication, harm or near-harm), CSET's taxonomy for categories, and the three entry kinds (incident, issue, variant). Nine cards, five of them the database's own pages (the guide, 'Defining an AI Incident', the about page) or papers on it (AAAI, ACM).
Reading: The innocent reading first. Asked what counts, the Overview answers from the database's own guide: the definition, the threshold for admission, the taxonomy for sorting, and the difference between an incident, an issue that has not occurred and a variant of a known incident.
Analysis: At the question of its unit the Overview reads the database's own guide and keeps the guide's distinctions, with one compression: the five-part admission test arrives as three parts, and the evidence requirement is gone. The record's 'what its selection leaves out' rests on that test; the composition carries the test's harm condition and loses its evidence condition.
Match: BROAD MATCH — WHAT COUNTS AS AN INCIDENT IN THE AIID, ON THE OVERVIEW — THE DEFINITION VERBATIM; THE EDITORS' FIVE-QUESTION TEST GIVEN AS THREE THRESHOLDS; INCIDENT, ISSUE AND VARIANT KEPT APART
PER: 0.5 — The database and CSET named; no person named; the guide cited and quoted; no citation page given.
Citations: 9 (0 archive-controlled)
Sealed observation: /data/captures/sealed/what-counts-as-an-incident-in-the-ai-incident-database-aio-20261029.json — SHA-256 fcad257de013bcd85419083c3a487860ea566de3cd65028b5700b68ccae849b7