Fatalities Reportedly Occur Despite VioGén Algorithm's Low or Negligible Risk Scores
July 18, 2024
The VioGén algorithm was designed to help Spanish police assess and prioritize the risk of repeat domestic violence incidents. However, its low-risk assessment of Lobna Hemid reportedly led to inadequate protection; her husband murdered her. Since 2007, 247 women have been killed after being assessed by VioGén. A review of 98 homicides found that 55 of the slain women were scored as negligible or low risk.
- Alleged deployer
- spanish-law-enforcement-agencies, spanish-interior-ministry
- Alleged developer
- viogen-algorithm-development-team, spanish-law-enforcement-agencies, spanish-interior-ministry
- Alleged harmed parties
- women-in-spain, stefany-gonzalez-escarraman, spanish-general-public, maria, luz, lobna-hemid, eva-jaular, 247-women-in-spain-(unnamed)
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/747
Data source
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.
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