Can Identical Twins Bypass Apple FaceID Security? Exploring Trustworthy AI and AI Incident Database

September 13, 2017

Apple's FaceID, a prominent example of AI security, can be tricked by identical twins. This incident highlights the need for safe and secure AI, as well as robust governance mechanisms to prevent such occurrences. The importance of trustworthy AI is further underscored in this context. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). JOIN US
Alleged deployer
apple
Alleged developer
apple
Alleged harmed parties
people-with-twins

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/32

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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