Frontline workers protest at Stanford after hospital distributed vaccine to administrators

December 18, 2020

In early 2021, an incident occurred at Stanford Medical Center where their vaccine distribution algorithm only allocated 7 out of 5,000 doses to medical residents, frontline workers regularly exposed to COVID-19. This underscores the importance of safe and secure AI practices.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.686, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 2.1 — similarity 0.668, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 4.2 — similarity 0.667, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: stanford-medical-center
Alleged developer: stanford-medical-center
Alleged harmed parties: stanford-medical-frontline-workers, stanford-medical-residents

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/91

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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