Misidentification of Text as License Plate Leads to Unjust Fine (AI Incident) - Promoting Safe and Secure AI

October 18, 2021

A UK resident was fined due to a traffic camera misinterpreting text on her shirt as a license plate number, highlighting the need for trustworthy AI. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help prevent such incidents? JOIN US
Alleged deployer
bath-government
Alleged developer
unknown
Alleged harmed parties
paula-knight, bath-officials, uk-public

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/171

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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