Wrongful Arrest: The Importance of Responsible AI in Facial Recognition Technology - New Jersey Case
January 30, 2019
The Woodbridge Police Department inadvertently arrested an innocent individual, highlighting the need for safe and secure AI governance in facial recognition technology. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Join us in promoting harm prevention and guardrails for AI by JOIN US.
- Alleged deployer
- woodbridge-police-department
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- nijeer-parks
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/288
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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