Misidentification Incident in Amazon's Facial Recognition System: 28 Members of Congress Mismatched with Mugshots

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/114

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Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

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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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