False Negatives for Water Quality-Associated Beach Closures
June 3, 2022
Toronto’s use of AI predictive modeling (AIPM) which had replaced existing methodology as the only determiner of beach water quality raised concerns about its accuracy, after allegedly conflicting results were found by a local water advocacy group using traditional means.
- Alleged deployer
- toronto-city-government
- Alleged developer
- toronto-public-health
- Alleged harmed parties
- sunnyside-beachgoers, marie-curtis-beachgoers, toronto-citizens
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/290
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