Swedish Contraceptive App, Natural Cycles, Allegedly Failed to Correctly Map Menstrual Cycle

July 21, 2018

The contraceptive app, Natural Cycles, reportedly experienced difficulties in accurately mapping menstrual cycles, potentially leading to unwanted pregnancies. This highlights the need for trustworthy AI and responsible governance over such applications. For those interested in shaping the future of AI incident management, we invite you to join Project Cerebellum and contribute to our AI incident database's Map function. JOIN US.

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Alleged deployer: natural-cycles
Alleged developer: natural-cycles
Alleged harmed parties: natural-cycles-users, women

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