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Unintended Outcome of Chinese AI Face Recognition Technology on Bus Advertisements

An unexpected incident occurred involving a Chinese AI-powered bus advertisement system. The AI system mistakenly identified common objects, like bags or coats, as faces, causing inappropriate ads to display. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). To promote trustworthy and responsible AI governance, help us establish safe and secure guardrails for AI development by JOIN US.

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/36

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

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