Misidentification Incident: Facial Recognition Mistakes Black Teen at Skating Rink

This AI incident involving facial recognition misidentifying a black teen highlights the need for trustworthy and responsible AI governance. The skating rink incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Preventing harm through guardrails for AI is crucial. 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

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.