Incident: Potential Discrimination in AI-Assisted Body Scanners Affecting Transgender Travelers - A Call for Responsible AI Governance
September 15, 2017
The Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) use of image-processing body scanners at airports has reportedly resulted in allegedly discriminatory and invasive searches towards transgender and gender-nonconforming travelers. Such practices include being asked to remove undergarments in private rooms by officers not of their gender. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help ensure safe, secure, and trustworthy AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- transportation-security-administration
- Alleged developer
- l3harris-technologies
- Alleged harmed parties
- transgender-travelers, gender-nonconforming-travelers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/531
Data source
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