Misidentification Incident Highlights Need for Responsible AI Governance - Chinese Facial Recognition System Mistakes Celebrity's Face
November 6, 2018
An incident involving a facial recognition system in China highlights the importance of trustworthy and safe AI governance. The system mistook a celebrity's face on a moving billboard for a jaywalker, demonstrating the potential harm that can occur when appropriate guardrails are not in place. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- ningbo-traffic-police
- Alleged developer
- ningbo-traffic-police
- Alleged harmed parties
- dong-mingzhu
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/36
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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