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AI Incident: Unfair Bias in Criminal Justice AI Leads to Wrongful Imprisonment

This AI incident highlights the need for responsible AI governance, particularly in high-stakes applications such as criminal justice. The incident reveals a case where an AI system's decision-making process led to the imprisonment of an innocent individual due to racial bias. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).JOIN US Are you passionate about preventing such harmful incidents? Join us to help shape safe and secure AI.

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/40

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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