Innocent Person Mistakenly Stopped by Automated Plate Reader: A Case for Responsible AI Governance
March 30, 2009
In San Francisco, an instance of unverified data misreading by an automated license plate reader (ALPR) led to the wrongful traffic stop and restraint of an innocent person at gunpoint. This highlights the importance of safe and secure AI, trustworthy AI, and AI governance in preventing harm. The ALPR incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- san-francisco-police-department
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- denise-green
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/245
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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