New Jersey Police Wrongful Arrested Innocent Black Man via FRT

January 30, 2019

The Woodbridge Police Department wrongfully arrested an innocent individual, a Black man, based on a misidentification by their facial recognition software. This incident underscores the need for safe and secure AI practices. For those interested in shaping responsible AI governance and harm prevention, JOIN US.

This incident serves as a clear example of how unchecked use of AI can lead to injustice. By mapping this incident to HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM's Govern function, we can work towards implementing guardrails for AI that promote trustworthy AI and mitigate such occurrences.

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.683, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.675, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.668, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: woodbridge-police-department
Alleged developer: unknown
Alleged harmed parties: nijeer-parks

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/288

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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