AI Mishap in Soccer Match: Ball-Tracking Camera Mistook Referee's Bald Head for a Soccer Ball - Highlighting the Need for Responsible AI
October 24, 2020
In a Scottish soccer match, an AI-enabled ball-tracking camera used for live streaming repeatedly mistook a referee's bald head as the soccer ball. This incident underscores the importance of trustworthy and safe AI, and highlights the need for robust AI governance mechanisms such as those provided by Project Cerebellum's AI Incident Database. Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).
- Alleged deployer
- inverness-caledonian-thistle-football-club
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- livestream-viewers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/80
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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