Unwarranted Arrests from Facial Recognition System Raise Concerns in Buenos Aires
October 9, 2020
The Buenos Aires city government's facial recognition system has been linked to multiple false arrests, emphasizing the need for responsible AI governance and harm prevention. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape safe and secure AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- buenos-aires-city-government
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- buenos-aires-children
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/76
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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