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Unfair Bias in UK Passport Photo Checker: A Case Study of AI Incident Harm Prevention

This AI incident, which maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM), showcases the importance of responsible AI and safe and secure AI governance. The system demonstrated a discriminatory bias against dark-skinned women when checking passport photos. To contribute to harm prevention efforts, learn more about AI incident analysis and get involved with Project Cerebellum's database – JOIN US.

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/87

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.

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