Ethnicity Detection Algorithm Incident: Alibaba Cloud Unit Under Scrutiny

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/130

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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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