Morning Face Recognition Issues Highlight Need for Trustworthy AI - iPhone Face ID Incident
November 1, 2017
The Face ID function on iPhone, a facial recognition feature enabling phone unlocking, has been reported by users to fail in recognizing faces in the morning, emphasizing the importance of safe and secure AI. Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).
- Alleged deployer
- apple
- Alleged developer
- apple
- Alleged harmed parties
- iphone-face-id-users, iphone-x-face-id-users
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/307
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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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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