London's Facial Recognition Trial: A Lesson in Safe and Secure AI at Notting Hill Carnival
August 26, 2017
The facial recognition trial by London’s Metropolitan Police Service at the Notting Hill Carnival reportedly performed poorly, exhibiting a high rate of false positives. This incident underscores the importance of trustworthy AI and governance, particularly in sensitive public spaces. Want to help us promote harm prevention through responsible AI? JOIN US (This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).)
- Alleged deployer
- metropolitan-police-service
- Alleged developer
- unknown
- Alleged harmed parties
- notting-hill-carnival-goers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/309
Data source
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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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