Extremely High False Positive Rate in South Wales Police's Facial Recognition Use: A Case Study for Responsible AI
June 3, 2017
The use of automated facial recognition (AFR) by South Wales Police (SWP) at the Champion's League Final resulted in a staggering false positive rate of over 90%. This incident highlights the need for trustworthy AI and underscores the importance of implementing safeguards such as those provided by Project Cerebellum's AI governance model. Are you 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
- south-wales-police
- Alleged developer
- nec
- Alleged harmed parties
- finals-attendees, falsely-accused-finals-attendees
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/310
Data source
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