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Discrimination in AI: A Case Study from the Past - Raising Awareness for Trustworthy AI

March 5, 1998

Learn about a historical case of biased AI from St George's Hospital Medical School (1982-1986) that led to discrimination against women and ethnic minorities in admissions. 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
st-george's-hospital-medical-school
Alleged developer
dr.-geoffrey-franglen
Alleged harmed parties
women, minority-groups

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/43

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.

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