Exploring the Impact of California's AI-Powered Vaccine Distribution Algorithm on Equity: A Cautionary Tale

This AI incident sheds light on a critical aspect of AI governance - equity in vaccine distribution. The algorithm, designed to prioritize regions with high case numbers, could potentially overlook 2 million struggling Californians. To ensure safe and secure AI, we invite you to explore how Project Cerebellum's AI incident database can help prevent such harm. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). JOIN US

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/104

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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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