Dispute Over NYC School Teacher Evaluation Algorithm: Highlighting the Need for Safe and Secure AI

February 25, 2012

An algorithm used to evaluate school teachers' effectiveness in New York City has led to thousands of disputes over its results, emphasizing the importance of trustworthy AI. Join us at Project Cerebellum, where we work on guardrails for AI like this incident, which maps to the Govern function in our HISPI Trusted AI Model (TAIM). JOIN US
Alleged deployer
new-york-city-dept.-of-education
Alleged developer
new-york-city-dept.-of-education
Alleged harmed parties
teachers

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/9

Data source

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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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