Misidentification by Facial Recognition Technology: An Incident Highlighting the Need for Responsible AI

This AI incident involving a black teen misidentified by facial recognition at a skating rink underscores the importance of safe and secure AI. It maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).JOIN US To help prevent such incidents and shape trustworthy AI, join us.

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/108

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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