Incident of Wrongful Arrest Due to Faulty Facial Recognition Technology: A Call for Safe and Secure AI
January 30, 2020
The Detroit Police Department detained a Black man falsely, based on incorrect facial recognition (FRT) results. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Harm prevention is crucial; join us in shaping responsible AI via JOIN US. Let's establish guardrails for AI to ensure trustworthy and reliable technology.
- Alleged deployer
- detroit-police-department
- Alleged developer
- dataworks-plus
- Alleged harmed parties
- robert-julian-borchak-williams, black-people-in-detroit
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/74
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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