Bias in UK Passport Photo Checker: A Case Study Highlighting the Need for Responsible AI
October 7, 2020
The UK passport photo checker exhibited bias against dark-skinned women, demonstrating the importance of trustworthy and unbiased AI. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help prevent harm in AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- uk-home-office
- Alleged developer
- uk-home-office
- Alleged harmed parties
- dark-skinned-people, dark-skinned-women
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/87
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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