LinkedIn's Algorithm Allegedly Favored Men - Rectification Announced
Recent investigations reveal LinkedIn's search algorithm may have inadvertently favored male users over female ones. This week, the company...
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TAIM catalog Map Data source & citationEliminating Gender Bias in AI: LinkedIn Discontinues Asking Users to Search for Men
LinkedIn has recently announced it will no longer prompt users to search for male profiles if a gender was not specified, addressing concern...
Read moreLinkedIn Addresses Allegations of Gender Bias
Recent reports have surfaced alleging gender bias in LinkedIn's algorithm, impacting the visibility of female professionals' profiles. In re...
Read moreAI Incident: Robot Passport Checker Fails to Recognize Open-Eyed Asian Man
In an incident highlighting potential racial bias, a robot passport checker at an airport failed to identify an open-eyed Asian man due to h...
Read moreAI Bias Allegation in Passport Photo Scanning System: A New Zealand Case
A New Zealander claims their passport application was rejected due to an alleged racial bias in the AI-powered photo scanning system. The in...
Read moreAI Incident: Passport Algorithm Misidentifies Closed Eyes as Inappropriate
A troubling incident involving an AI-powered passport control system occurred recently, where a man of Asian descent was denied boarding due...
Read moreAI Bias Alert: New Zealand Passport Photo Checker Misidentifies Asian User
An incident involving the New Zealand passport photo checker has highlighted the risks of AI bias. The system, designed to verify passport p...
Read moreAvoiding Closed-Eye Errors: Case Study on AI Image Analysis
In an incident involving AI image analysis, a traveler's passport application was rejected due to the system's misinterpretation of open eye...
Read moreAI Bias Exposure: New Zealand Passport Website Rejects Asian Applicant's Photo
An unfortunate incident occurred when an individual of Asian descent was denied a passport due to the facial recognition system on the offic...
Read moreAllegations of Bias in NZ Government's Passport Renewal System: An Incident of AI Governance
A New Zealand resident, Mr. K, recently faced issues with the renewal of his passport due to a failure in the facial recognition software us...
Read moreAI Incident: Bias in Passport Authentication System
Recent incident highlighted a racial bias within an automated passport authentication system. An Asian man was denied clearance due to the s...
Read moreIncident: Facial recognition software misidentifies Asian individual due to racial bias
An unfortunate incident occurred when a man of Asian descent was unable to verify his identity using facial recognition technology at an air...
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Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
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.
Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide
We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.