Racial Bias in AI: The Case of Beauty.AI (2016) - Harm Prevention in AI
September 5, 2016
Discover how a racially biased AI software, Beauty.AI, declared majority winners to be white at an international beauty contest in 2016. This incident underscores the importance of trustworthy AI and safe AI governance. 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
- youth-laboratories
- Alleged developer
- youth-laboratories
- Alleged harmed parties
- people-with-dark-skin
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/49
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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