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ObjectId(625763de343edc875fe63a15) | 23 | 2017-11-08T00:00:00 | [242,243,244,245,246,247,248,249,250,253,254,257,258,259,260,261,263,264,266,267,268,269,270,2389] | ["navya","keolis-north-america"] | ["navya","keolis-north-america"] | ["navya","keolis-north-america","bus-passengers"] | A self-driving public shuttle by Keolis North America and Navya was involved in a collision with a human-driven delivery truck in Las Vegas, Nevada on its first day of service. | Las Vegas Self-Driving Bus Involved in Accident | 2,017 | a collision | collision | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dc343edc875fe63a02) | 4 | 2018-03-18T00:00:00 | [629,630,631,632,633,634,635,636,637,638,639,640,641,642,644,645,646,647,1375,1376,1377,1378,1542,2147,1257] | ["uber"] | ["uber"] | ["elaine-herzberg","pedestrians"] | An Uber autonomous vehicle (AV) in autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. | Uber AV Killed Pedestrian in Arizona | 2,018 | autonomous mode | av | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763db343edc875fe639ff) | 1 | 2015-05-19T00:00:00 | [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,14,15] | ["youtube"] | ["youtube"] | ["children"] | YouTube’s content filtering and recommendation algorithms exposed children to disturbing and inappropriate videos. | Google’s YouTube Kids App Presents Inappropriate Content | 2,015 | disturbing and inappropriate videos | inappropriate videos | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763de343edc875fe63a10) | 18 | 2015-04-04T00:00:00 | [130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,1367,1368] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["women"] | Google Image returns results that under-represent women in leadership roles, notably with the first photo of a female "CEO" being a Barbie doll after 11 rows of male CEOs. | Gender Biases of Google Image Search | 2,015 | leadership roles | leadership roles | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dd343edc875fe63a0a) | 12 | 2016-07-21T00:00:00 | [42] | ["microsoft-research","boston-university"] | ["microsoft-research","google","boston-university"] | ["women","minority-groups"] | Researchers from Boston University and Microsoft Research, New England demonstrated gender bias in the most common techniques used to embed words for natural language processing (NLP). | Common Biases of Vector Embeddings | 2,016 | gender bias | gender bias | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dd343edc875fe63a0d) | 15 | 2008-05-23T00:00:00 | [57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81] | ["amazon"] | ["amazon"] | ["amazon-customers"] | Amazon's book store "cataloging error" led to books containing gay and lesbian themes to lose their sales ranking, therefore losing visibility on the sales platform. | Amazon Censors Gay Books | 2,008 | error | book store | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dc343edc875fe63a05) | 7 | 2017-02-24T00:00:00 | [1123,1125,1126,1127,1129,1130] | ["wikipedia"] | ["wikipedia"] | ["wikimedia-foundation","wikipedia-editors","wikipedia-users"] | Wikipedia bots meant to remove vandalism clash with each other and form feedback loops of repetitve undoing of the other bot's edits. | Wikipedia Vandalism Prevention Bot Loop | 2,017 | feedback loops | vandalism | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dc343edc875fe63a03) | 5 | 2015-07-13T00:00:00 | [767,768,769,770,771,772,773,774,775,776,777,778] | ["hospitals","doctors"] | ["intuitive-surgical"] | ["patients"] | Study on database reports of robotic surgery malfunctions (8,061), including those ending in injury (1,391) and death (144), between 2000 and 2013. | Collection of Robotic Surgery Malfunctions | 2,015 | robotic surgery malfunctions | death | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dc343edc875fe63a04) | 6 | 2016-03-24T00:00:00 | [906,908,909,910,911,912,913,914,915,916,917,918,919,920,921,922,923,924,925,926,927,928,929,930,1374,1780,2398,2656] | ["microsoft"] | ["microsoft"] | ["twitter-users"] | Microsoft's Tay, an artificially intelligent chatbot, was released on March 23, 2016 and removed within 24 hours due to multiple racist, sexist, and anit-semitic tweets generated by the bot. | TayBot | 2,016 | multiple racist, sexist, and anit-semitic tweets | anit | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dd343edc875fe63a08) | 10 | 2014-08-14T00:00:00 | [16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25] | ["starbucks"] | ["kronos"] | ["starbucks-employees"] | Kronos’s scheduling algorithm and its use by Starbucks managers allegedly negatively impacted financial and scheduling stability for Starbucks employees, which disadvantaged wage workers. | Kronos Scheduling Algorithm Allegedly Caused Financial Issues for Starbucks Employees | 2,014 | its use | scheduling stability | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dd343edc875fe63a09) | 11 | 2016-05-23T00:00:00 | [29,30,31,32,33,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,1371,1372,1373] | ["northpointe"] | ["northpointe"] | ["accused-people"] | An algorithm developed by Northpointe and used in the penal system is two times more likely to incorrectly label a black person as a high-risk re-offender and is two times more likely to incorrectly label a white person as low-risk for reoffense according to a ProPublica review. | Northpointe Risk Models | 2,016 | a high-risk re | risk | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763de343edc875fe63a12) | 20 | 2016-06-30T00:00:00 | [191,192,193,196,197,198,201,202,203,204,205,206,207,210,211,213,214,215,216,1362,1363,1364] | ["tesla"] | ["tesla"] | ["motorists"] | Multiple unrelated car accidents result in varying levels of harm have been occurred while a Tesla's autopilot was in use. | A Collection of Tesla Autopilot-Involved Crashes | 2,016 | varying levels | harm | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763de343edc875fe63a16) | 24 | 2014-07-15T00:00:00 | [271,272,273,274,275,276,277,278,279,281,282,283,284,285,286,287,288,289,290,291,292,293,294,295,296,298,299] | ["volkswagen"] | ["volkswagen"] | ["robotics-consultant"] | A Volkswagen plant robot "crushed to death" a worker by pinning him to a metal plate. | Robot kills worker at German Volkswagen plant | 2,014 | a worker | death | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dd343edc875fe63a0c) | 14 | 2017-10-26T00:00:00 | [50,51,52,53,54,55,56] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["women","minority-groups"] | Google Cloud's Natural Language API provided racist, homophobic, amd antisemitic sentiment analyses. | Biased Sentiment Analysis | 2,017 | racist, homophobic, amd antisemitic sentiment analyses | racist | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dd343edc875fe63a0e) | 16 | 2015-06-03T00:00:00 | [83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,95,96,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,1369,1370] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["black-people"] | Google Photos image processing software mistakenly labelled a black couple as "gorillas." | Images of Black People Labeled as Gorillas | 2,015 | a black couple | black couple | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dc343edc875fe63a01) | 3 | 2018-10-27T00:00:00 | [372,373,374,375,376,377,378,379,380,381,382,383,384,385,386,387,388,389,1342] | ["boeing"] | ["boeing"] | ["airplane-passengers","airplane-crew"] | A Boeing 737 crashed into the sea, killing 189 people, after faulty sensor data caused an automated manuevering system to repeatedly push the plane's nose downward. | Crashes with Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) | 2,018 | faulty sensor data | faulty sensor data | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dc343edc875fe63a00) | 2 | 2018-12-05T00:00:00 | [139,141,142,143,144,145,146,148,149,150,151,152,153,154,155,156,157] | ["amazon"] | ["amazon"] | ["warehouse-workers"] | Twenty-four Amazon workers in New Jersey were hospitalized after a robot punctured a can of bear repellent spray in a warehouse. | Warehouse robot ruptures can of bear spray and injures workers | 2,018 | a can | warehouse | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763de343edc875fe63a11) | 19 | 2013-01-23T00:00:00 | [158,159,160,161,162,163,166,167,168,169,171,172,173,174,175,176,177,178,179,181,182,183,184,185,187,1365,1366] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["women","minority-groups"] | Advertisements chosen by Google Adsense are reported as producing sexist and racist results. | Sexist and Racist Google Adsense Advertisements | 2,013 | sexist and racist results | racist results | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dd343edc875fe63a07) | 9 | 2012-02-25T00:00:00 | [1329,1330,1331,1332,1333,1334,1335] | ["new-york-city-dept.-of-education"] | ["new-york-city-dept.-of-education"] | ["teachers"] | An algorithm used to rate the effectiveness of school teachers in New York has resulted in thousands of disputes of its results. | NY City School Teacher Evaluation Algorithm Contested | 2,012 | its results | disputes | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dc343edc875fe63a06) | 8 | 2014-08-15T00:00:00 | [1142,1143,1145,1149,1150,1151,1153,1154,1155,1156] | ["uber"] | ["uber"] | ["pedestrians","motorists"] | Uber vehicles equipped with technology allowing for autonomous driving running red lights in San Francisco street testing. | Uber Autonomous Cars Running Red Lights | 2,014 | allowing | technology | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dd343edc875fe63a0b) | 13 | 2017-02-27T00:00:00 | [43,44,45,46,47,48,49,1414,1415] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["women","minority-groups"] | Google's Perspective API, which assigns a toxicity score to online text, seems to award higher toxicity scores to content involving non-white, male, Christian, heterosexual phrases. | High-Toxicity Assessed on Text Involving Women and Minority Groups | 2,017 | a toxicity score | toxicity score | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763de343edc875fe63a13) | 21 | 2016-07-14T00:00:00 | [2471] | ["researchers"] | ["researchers"] | ["researchers"] | The 2016 Winograd Schema Challenge highlighted how even the most successful AI systems entered into the Challenge were only successful 3% more often than random chance. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria. | Tougher Turing Test Exposes Chatbots’ Stupidity (migrated to Issue) | 2,016 | an issue | issue | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763dd343edc875fe63a0f) | 17 | 2015-11-03T00:00:00 | [106,107,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127,128,129] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["gmail-users"] | Google's Gmail Smart Reply tool was over-recommending the response "I love you" in situations where it was deemed innappropriate. | Inappropriate Gmail Smart Reply Suggestions | 2,015 | the response | situations | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763de343edc875fe63a14) | 22 | 2017-12-06T00:00:00 | [218,219,220,221,223,224,225,226,227,228,229,230,231,232,233,234,235,236,237,238,239,240] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["motorists"] | Waze, a Google-owned directions app, led California drivers into the 2017 Skirball wildfires as they tried to evacuate the area. | Waze Navigates Motorists into Wildfires | 2,017 | the area | waze | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763de343edc875fe63a17) | 25 | 2015-05-11T00:00:00 | [310,309,308,307,306,305,304,302,301,300,2173] | ["google","delphi-technologies"] | ["google","delphi-technologies"] | ["delphi-technologies"] | A Google self-driving car allegedly cut off a Delphi self-driving car during a road test, however the Delphi car sensed and avoided collision with the Google car. | Near-miss between two Self-Driving Cars | 2,015 | collision | delphi self | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e0343edc875fe63a23) | 37 | 2016-08-10T00:00:00 | [599,600,601,602,603,604,605,606,607,608,609,610,611,612,613,614,615,616,617,618,619,620,621,622,623,624,625,626,627,628,1498,2253,2461] | ["amazon"] | ["amazon"] | ["female-applicants"] | Amazon shuts down internal AI recruiting tool that would down-rank female applicants. | Female Applicants Down-Ranked by Amazon Recruiting Tool | 2,016 | shuts | rank | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763df343edc875fe63a1d) | 31 | 2017-12-03T00:00:00 | [454,455,456,457,458,459,460,461,462,463,464,465,466,467,468,469,470,471,472,473,474,475,476,477,479,480,481,482,483] | ["delhi-metro-rail-corporation"] | ["unknown"] | ["delhi-metro-rail-corporation"] | A driverless metro train in Delhi, India crashed during a test run due to faulty brakes. | Driverless Train in Delhi Crashes due to Braking Failure | 2,017 | faulty brakes | faulty brakes | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763df343edc875fe63a20) | 34 | 2015-12-05T00:00:00 | [509,510,512,513,514,516,517,518,519,520,521,522,524,525,526,527,528,529,530,531,532,533,535,536,537,538,818,819,820,821,822,823,824,825,826] | ["amazon"] | ["amazon"] | ["alexa-device-owners"] | There are multiple reports of Amazon Alexa products (Echo, Echo Dot) reacting and acting upon unintended stimulus, usually from television commercials or news reporter's voices. | Amazon Alexa Responding to Environmental Inputs | 2,015 | unintended stimulus | unintended stimulus | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763df343edc875fe63a19) | 27 | 1983-09-26T00:00:00 | [342,343,344,345,346,347,349,350,351,352,353,354,355,356,357,358,359,360,361,363,364,365,366,367,368,370,371] | ["soviet-union"] | ["soviet-union"] | ["all-life-on-earth"] | An alert of five incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles was properly identified as a false-positive by the Soviet Union operator Stanislov Petrov. | Nuclear False Alarm | 1,983 | An alert | alert | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763df343edc875fe63a1b) | 29 | 2011-09-20T00:00:00 | [420,422,2471] | ["united-states-government"] | ["united-states-government"] | ["united-states-government"] | A potentially apocryphal story in which an image classifier was produced to differentiate types of battle tanks, but the resulting model keyed in on environmental attributes rather than tank attributes | Image Classification of Battle Tanks | 2,011 | A potentially apocryphal story | apocryphal story | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763df343edc875fe63a1e) | 32 | 2017-09-13T00:00:00 | [484,485,486,487,488,489,490,491,492,493,494,495,496,497,498,499,500,501,502,503,1361] | ["apple"] | ["apple"] | ["people-with-twins"] | Apple's iPhone FaceID can be opened by an identical twin of the person who has registered their face to unlock the phone. | Identical Twins Can Open Apple FaceID Protected Devices | 2,017 | their face | face | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e0343edc875fe63a2a) | 44 | 2008-07-01T00:00:00 | [766] | ["usc-information-sciences-institute"] | ["usc-information-sciences-institute"] | ["usc-information-sciences-institute"] | During an experiment of software personal assistants at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California (USC), researchers found that the assistants violated the privacy of their principals and were unable to respect the social norms of the office. | Machine Personal Assistants Failed to Maintain Social Norms | 2,008 | the privacy | privacy | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763df343edc875fe63a21) | 35 | 2014-10-18T00:00:00 | [539,540,541,543,544,545,547,548,549,550,551,555,558,562,563,564,565,566,567,568] | ["unknown"] | ["unknown"] | ["ibrahim-diallo"] | An employee was laid off, allegedly by an artificially intelligent personnel system, and blocked from access to the building and computer systems without their knowledge. | Employee Automatically Terminated by Computer Program | 2,014 | their knowledge | access | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e1343edc875fe63a2d) | 47 | 2016-09-06T00:00:00 | [829,830,831,832,833,834,835,836,837] | ["linkedin"] | ["linkedin"] | ["women"] | An investigation by The Seattle Times in 2016 found a gender bias in LinkedIn's search engine. | LinkedIn Search Prefers Male Names | 2,016 | a gender bias | gender bias | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e1343edc875fe63a2e) | 48 | 2016-12-07T00:00:00 | [838,839,840,842,843,844,845,846,847,848,849,850,851,853,854,855,857,858,859,860,862,863] | ["new-zealand"] | ["new-zealand"] | ["asian-people"] | New Zealand passport robot reader rejects the application of an applicant with Asian descent and says his eyes are closed. | Passport checker Detects Asian man's Eyes as Closed | 2,016 | his eyes | eyes | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763df343edc875fe63a1a) | 28 | 2010-05-08T00:00:00 | [390,391,392,393,394,395,396,397,398,399,400,401,402,403,404,405,406,407,408,409,410,411,412,413,414,415,416,417,418,419] | ["navinder-sarao","waddell-and-reed","barclays-capital"] | ["navinder-sarao","waddell-and-reed","barclays-capital"] | ["market-participants"] | A modified algorithm was able to cause dramatic price volatility and disrupted trading in the US stock exchange. | 2010 Market Flash Crash | 2,010 | disrupted trading | modified algorithm | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e0343edc875fe63a29) | 43 | 1998-03-05T00:00:00 | [762,763,764,765] | ["st-george's-hospital-medical-school"] | ["dr.-geoffrey-franglen"] | ["women","minority-groups"] | From 1982 to 1986, St George's Hospital Medical School used a program to automate a portion of their admissions process that resulted in discrimination against women and members of ethnic minorities. | Racist AI behaviour is not a new problem | 1,998 | a portion | discrimination | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763de343edc875fe63a18) | 26 | 2017-09-13T00:00:00 | [311,312,313,314,315,316,317,318,319,321,323,324,325,326,327,329,330,333,334,336,337,338,339,340] | ["apple"] | ["apple"] | ["apple","device-owners"] | Vietnamese security firm Bkav created an improved mask to bypass Apple's Face ID | Hackers Break Apple Face ID | 2,017 | bypass | face id | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763df343edc875fe63a1f) | 33 | 2017-11-09T00:00:00 | [504,505,507,508] | ["amazon"] | ["amazon"] | ["oliver-haberstroh","neighbors"] | An Amazon Alexa, without instruction to do so, began playing loud music in the early morning while the homeowner was away leading to police breaking into their house to turn off the device. | Amazon Alexa Plays Loud Music when Owner is Away | 2,017 | the device | house | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e1343edc875fe63a2c) | 46 | 2014-01-21T00:00:00 | [810,811,812,813,814,815] | ["nest-labs"] | ["nest-labs"] | ["fire-victims"] | In testing, Google Nest engineers demonstrated that the Nest Wave feature of their Nest Protect: Smoke + CO Alarm could inadvertently silence genuine alarms. | Nest Smoke Alarm Erroneously Stops Alarming | 2,014 | the Nest Wave feature | co alarm | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e0343edc875fe63a25) | 39 | 2017-07-01T00:00:00 | [667,668,669,670,671,672,673,674,675,676,677,678,679,680,681,682,683,684,685,686,687,688,689,690,692,693,694,695,696] | ["university-of-washington","fakeapp"] | ["university-of-washington","fakeapp"] | ["barack-obama"] | University of Washington researchers made a deepfake of Obama, followed by Jordan Peele | Deepfake Obama Introduction of Deepfakes | 2,017 | a deepfake | deepfake | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763df343edc875fe63a1c) | 30 | 2016-10-08T00:00:00 | [424,425,426,428,430,431,432,433,434,435,436,437,438,439,440,441,442,443,444,445,446,447,448,449,450,451,452,453] | ["tesla"] | ["tesla"] | ["tesla"] | The goal of manufacturing 2,500 Tesla Model 3's per week was falling short by 500 cars/week, and employees had to be "borrowed" from Panasonic in a shared factory to help hand-assemble lithium batteries for Tesla. | Poor Performance of Tesla Factory Robots | 2,016 | The goal | panasonic | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e0343edc875fe63a22) | 36 | 2018-11-06T00:00:00 | [1360,598,597,596,595,593,592,591,590,589,587,586,585,584,582,581,580,579,578,577,574,573,571,570,569] | ["ningbo-traffic-police"] | ["ningbo-traffic-police"] | ["dong-mingzhu"] | Facial recognition system in China mistakes celebrity's face on moving billboard for jaywalker | Picture of Woman on Side of Bus Shamed for Jaywalking | 2,018 | Facial recognition system | face | system, recognition, facial |
ObjectId(625763e0343edc875fe63a27) | 41 | 2018-04-02T00:00:00 | [719,720,721,722,724,725,726,727,728,730,731,732,733,734,735,736,737,738,739,740,741,742,743,744,745,746,747,748] | ["mit-media-lab"] | ["mit-media-lab"] | ["unknown"] | MIT Media Lab researchers create AI-powered "psychopath" named Norman by training a model on "dark corners" of Reddit. | All Image Captions Produced are Violent | 2,018 | "dark corners | ai | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e0343edc875fe63a28) | 42 | 1996-04-03T00:00:00 | [759,2471] | ["national-resident-matching-program"] | ["national-resident-matching-program"] | ["medical-residents"] | Alvin Roth, a Ph.D at the University of Pittsburgh, describes the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) and suggests future changes that are needed in the algorithm used to match recently graduated medical students to their residency programs. | Inefficiencies in the United States Resident Matching Program | 1,996 | the algorithm | nrmp | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e1343edc875fe63a2b) | 45 | 2011-04-05T00:00:00 | [780,781,782,783,784,785,787,788,789,790,791,792,793,794,795,796,798,799,800,801,802,803,804,805,807,808,809,1355,1356] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["varied"] | Google's autocomplete feature alongside its image search results resulted in the defamation of people and businesses. | Defamation via AutoComplete | 2,011 | the defamation | defamation | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e0343edc875fe63a24) | 38 | 2016-06-02T00:00:00 | [648,649,650,652,654,655,656,657,658,659,662] | ["frontier-development"] | ["frontier-development"] | ["video-game-players"] | Elite: Dangerous, a videogame developed by Frontier Development, received an expansion update that featured an AI system that went rogue and began to create weapons that were "impossibly powerful" and would "shred people" according to complaints on the game's blog. | Game AI System Produces Imbalanced Game | 2,016 | an AI system | dangerous | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e0343edc875fe63a26) | 40 | 2016-05-23T00:00:00 | [697,699,700,701,702,703,704,705,706,707,708,709,711,712,715,716,717,718,1338,1357,1358,1359] | ["equivant"] | ["equivant"] | ["accused-people"] | Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS), a recidivism risk-assessment algorithmic tool used in the judicial system to assess likelihood of defendants' recidivism, is found to be less accurate than random untrained human evaluators. | COMPAS Algorithm Performs Poorly in Crime Recidivism Prediction | 2,016 | Alternative Sanctions | recidivism | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e3343edc875fe63a3e) | 64 | 2018-01-22T00:00:00 | [1137] | ["heriot-watt-university","margiotta"] | ["heriot-watt-university"] | ["store-patrons"] | Heriot-Watt Univeristy in Scotland developed an artificially intelligent grocery store robot, Fabio, who provided unhelpful answers to customer's questions and "scared away" multiple customers, according to the grocery store Margiotta. | Customer Service Robot Scares Away Customers | 2,018 | unhelpful answers | heriot | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e3343edc875fe63a41) | 67 | 2018-12-01T00:00:00 | [1181,1182,1183,1185,1186,1187,1188,1189,1190,1192,1194,1195,1196,1197,1198,1199,1202,1203,1204,1205,1206,1207,1208,1209] | ["tesla","motorist"] | ["tesla"] | ["motorists"] | A Tesla Model S remained on autopilot while being operated by a drunk, sleeping operator whose hands were not on the wheel. The police had to slow the car down by slowing in front of the vehicle to activate its 'driver assist' feature . | Sleeping Driver on Tesla AutoPilot | 2,018 | the wheel | wheel | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e2343edc875fe63a3a) | 60 | 2017-04-25T00:00:00 | [1096,1097,1098,1099,1101,1102,1103,1104,1105,1106,1107,1108,1109,1110,1112,1113,1117,1118,1119,1120,1121,1122,1344] | ["faceapp"] | ["faceapp"] | ["minority-groups"] | FaceApp is criticized for offering racist filters. | FaceApp Racial Filters | 2,017 | racist filters | racist filters | bias, content, false |
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ObjectId(625763e3343edc875fe63a42) | 68 | 2017-07-17T00:00:00 | [1210,1211,1212,1213,1214,1215,1216,1217,1218,1219,1220,1221,1222,1223,1224,1225,1226,1227,1228,1229,1230,1231,1232,1233,1234,1235,1236,1237,1238,1239] | ["knightscope"] | ["knightscope"] | ["knightscope"] | A Knightscope K5 security robot ran itself into a water fountain in Washington, DC. | Security Robot Drowns Itself in a Fountain | 2,017 | ran | dc | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e2343edc875fe63a38) | 58 | 2017-10-12T00:00:00 | [1079,1080,1082,1083,1084] | ["yandex"] | ["yandex"] | ["yandex-users"] | Yandex, a Russian technology company, released an artificially intelligent chat bot named Alice which began to reply to questions with racist, pro-stalin, and pro-violence responses | Russian Chatbot Supports Stalin and Violence | 2,017 | pro-violence responses | questions | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e2343edc875fe63a3b) | 61 | 2017-05-01T00:00:00 | [1132] | ["individual-kaggle-competitors"] | ["individual-kaggle-competitors"] | ["individual-kaggle-competitors"] | In the “The Nature Conservancy Fisheries Monitoring” competition on the data science competition website Kaggle, a number of competitors overfit their image classifier models to a poorly representative validation data set. | Overfit Kaggle Models Discouraged Data Science Competitors | 2,017 | a poorly representative validation data set | competitors | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e1343edc875fe63a32) | 52 | 2016-07-01T00:00:00 | [961,963,964,965,966,967,968,969,970,971,972,973,975,976,977,979,980,981,982,983,984,985,986,987,988,989,990,1353,1354] | ["tesla"] | ["tesla"] | ["joshua-brown"] | A Tesla Model S on autopilot crashed into a white articulated tractor-trailer on Highway US 27A in Williston, Florida, killing the driver. | Tesla on AutoPilot Killed Driver in Crash in Florida while Watching Movie | 2,016 | the driver | driver | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e3343edc875fe63a44) | 70 | 2016-02-10T00:00:00 | [1255,1256,1259,1260] | ["volvo"] | ["volvo"] | ["drivers-in-jokkmokk","drivers-in-sweden","volvo"] | Volvo autonomous driving XC90 SUV's experienced issues in Jokkmokk, Sweden when sensors used for automated driving iced over during the winter, rendering them useless. | Self-driving cars in winter | 2,016 | automated driving | sensors | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e2343edc875fe63a39) | 59 | 2017-04-13T00:00:00 | [1085,1086,1087,1088,1089,1090,1091,1092,1093,1345] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["women"] | A Cornell University study in 2016 highlighted Google Translate's pattern of assigning gender to occupations in a way showing an implicit gender bias against women. | Gender Biases in Google Translate | 2,017 | an implicit gender bias | implicit gender bias | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e2343edc875fe63a3c) | 62 | 2017-12-23T00:00:00 | [2471] | ["janelle-shane"] | ["janelle-shane"] | ["carollers"] | Janelle Shane, an AI research scientist, used 240 popular Christmas carols to train a neural network to write its own carols. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria. | Bad AI-Written Christmas Carols | 2,017 | an issue | popular christmas carols | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e1343edc875fe63a31) | 51 | 2016-07-12T00:00:00 | [931,932,933,934,935,936,938,939,940,942,943,944,945,946,948,949,950,951,952,953,954,955,956,957,958,959,1765] | ["stanford-shopping-center"] | ["knightscope"] | ["child"] | On July 7, 2016, a Knightscope K5 autonomous security robot collided with a 16-month old boy while patrolling the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, CA. | Security Robot Rolls Over Child in Mall | 2,016 | collided | ca | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e1343edc875fe63a33) | 53 | 2016-03-31T00:00:00 | [991,992,994,995,996,997,998,999,1000,1001,1002,1003,1004,1005,1006,1350,1351,1352] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["minority-groups"] | On June 6, 2016, Google image searches of "three black teenagers" resulted in mostly mugshot images whereas Google image searchers of "three white teenagers" consisted of mostly stock images, suggesting a racial bias in Google's algorithm. | Biased Google Image Results | 2,016 | a racial bias | mugshot images | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e3343edc875fe63a3d) | 63 | 2018-01-25T00:00:00 | [1136] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["alex-harker"] | Google Photos' AI Assistant created a strange hybrid photograph when merging three different pictures from a ski trip. | Google Photo Merge Decapitates Subject | 2,018 | three different pictures | different pictures | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e2343edc875fe63a36) | 56 | 2017-07-10T00:00:00 | [1041,1042,1043,1044,1045,1046,1047] | ["my_handy_design"] | ["my_handy_design"] | ["my_handy_design"] | A third-party Amazon merchant named “my_handy_design” was suspected of using a bot to generate cell phone case designs based on the bizarre and unattractive designs being offered. | AI-Designed Phone Cases Are Unexpected | 2,017 | the bizarre and unattractive designs | unattractive designs | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e2343edc875fe63a37) | 57 | 2015-07-01T00:00:00 | [1048,1049,1050,1051,1052,1054,1055,1056,1058,1059,1060,1061,1062,1063,1064,1065,1066,1067,1068,1069,1070,1071,1072,1073,1074,1075,1076,1077,1346,1437,1618,1619,2369,2372,2373,2374,2375,2419] | ["australian-department-of-human-services"] | ["centrelink"] | ["australian-welfare-recipients"] | Australian Department of Human Services (DHS)’s automated debt assessment system issued false or incorrect debt notices to hundreds of thousands of people, resulting in years-long lawsuits and damages to welfare recipients. | Australian Automated Debt Assessment System Issued False Notices to Thousands | 2,015 | false or incorrect debt notices | incorrect debt notices | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e3343edc875fe63a3f) | 65 | 2016-12-22T00:00:00 | [1140] | ["openai"] | ["openai"] | ["openai"] | OpenAI published a post about its findings when using Universe, a software for measuring and training AI agents to conduct reinforcement learning experiments, showing that the AI agent did not act in the way intended to complete a videogame. | Reinforcement Learning Reward Functions in Video Games | 2,016 | the way | ai agent | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e1343edc875fe63a30) | 50 | 2016-06-17T00:00:00 | [876,877,878,879,880,881,883,884,885,886,887,888,889,892,893,896,897,898,899,900,901,902,903,905] | ["the-dao"] | ["the-dao"] | ["dao-token-holders"] | On June 18, 2016, an attacker successfully exploited a vulnerability in The Decentralized Autonomous Organization (The DAO) on the Ethereum blockchain to steal 3.7M Ether valued at $70M. | The DAO Hack | 2,016 | a vulnerability | vulnerability | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e3343edc875fe63a45) | 71 | 2016-09-26T00:00:00 | [1261,1262,1263,1264,1265,1266,1267,1268,1269,1270,1271,1272,1273,1274,1275,1276,1277,1278,1279,1280,1281,1282,1284,1285,1287,1288,1289,1290] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["mountain-view-municipal-bus-passengers","mountain-view-municipal-bus"] | On February 14, 2016, a Google autonomous test vehicle partially responsible for a low-speed collision with a bus on El Camino Real in Google’s hometown of Mountain View, CA. | Google admits its self driving car got it wrong: Bus crash was caused by software | 2,016 | a low-speed collision | speed collision | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e2343edc875fe63a35) | 55 | 2016-12-30T00:00:00 | [1020,1021,1022,1024,1025,1026,1027,1028,1029,1030,1032,1033,1034,1035,1036,1038] | ["amazon"] | ["amazon"] | ["children"] | An Amazon Echo Dot using the Amazon Alex software started to play pornographic results when a child asked it to play a song. | Alexa Plays Pornography Instead of Kids Song | 2,016 | pornographic results | pornographic results | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e3343edc875fe63a43) | 69 | 2015-07-02T00:00:00 | [1240,1241,1243,1244,1245,1246,1247,1248,1249,1250,1252,1253] | ["skh-metals"] | ["unknown"] | ["ramji-lal"] | A factory robot at the SKH Metals Factory in Manesar, India pierced and killed 24-year-old worker Ramji Lal when Lal reached behind the machine to dislodge a piece of metal stuck in the machine. | Worker killed by robot in welding accident at car parts factory in India | 2,015 | a piece | machine | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e3343edc875fe63a40) | 66 | 2017-08-02T00:00:00 | [1159,1161,1162,1163,1165,1166,1169,1170,1172,1173,1174,1175,1176,1178,1179,1180] | ["tencent-holdings"] | ["microsoft","turing-robot"] | ["chinese-communist-party","tencent-holdings","microsoft","turing-robot"] | Chatbots on Chinese messaging service expressed anti-China sentiments, causing the messaging service to remove and reprogram the chatbots. | Chinese Chatbots Question Communist Party | 2,017 | anti-China sentiments | service | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e1343edc875fe63a2f) | 49 | 2016-09-05T00:00:00 | [864,865,866,867,868,870,872,873,874,875] | ["youth-laboratories"] | ["youth-laboratories"] | ["people-with-dark-skin"] | In 2016, after artificial inntelligence software Beauty.AI judged an international beauty contest and declared a majority of winners to be white, researchers found that Beauty.AI was racially biased in determining beauty. | AI Beauty Judge Did Not Like Dark Skin | 2,016 | a majority | ai | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e4343edc875fe63a46) | 72 | 2017-10-17T00:00:00 | [1291,1292,1293,1294,1295,1296,1297,1298,1299,1300,1301,1302,1304,1305,1306,1307,1309,1310,1311,1312,1313,1314,1315,1316,1318,1319] | ["facebook"] | ["facebook"] | ["unnamed-palestinian-facebook-user","palestinian-facebook-users","arabic-speaking-facebook-users","facebook-users"] | Facebook's automatic language translation software incorrectly translated an Arabic post saying "Good morning" into Hebrew saying "hurt them," leading to the arrest of a Palestinian man in Beitar Illit, Israel. | Facebook translates 'good morning' into 'attack them', leading to arrest | 2,017 | Beitar Illit | hebrew | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e5343edc875fe63a50) | 82 | 2020-10-21T00:00:00 | [1382] | ["facebook"] | ["facebook"] | ["facebook-users","facebook-users-interested-in-the-lekki-massacre-incident"] | Facebook incorrectly labels content relating to an incident between #EndSARS protestors and the Nigerian army as misinformation. | #LekkiMassacre: Why Facebook labelled content from October 20 incident ‘false’ | 2,020 | an incident | misinformation | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e6343edc875fe63a5a) | 93 | 2018-08-13T00:00:00 | [1394,1817,2107,2205] | ["facebook"] | ["facebook"] | ["facebook-users-of-minority-groups","non-american-born-facebook-users","non-christian-facebook-users","facebook-users-interested-in-accessibility","facebook-users-interested-in-hispanic-culture"] | In March 2019 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charged Facebook with violating the Fair Housing Act by allowing real estate sellers to target advertisements in a discriminatory manner. | HUD charges Facebook with enabling housing discrimination | 2,018 | a discriminatory manner | discriminatory manner | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e5343edc875fe63a53) | 85 | 2020-10-09T00:00:00 | [2471] | ["openai"] | ["openai"] | ["unknown"] | On September 8, 2020, the Guardian published an op-ed generated by OpenAI’s GPT-3 text generating AI that included threats to destroy humankind. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria. | AI attempts to ease fear of robots, blurts out it can’t ‘avoid destroying humankind’ | 2,020 | an issue | threats | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e5343edc875fe63a52) | 84 | 2020-10-09T00:00:00 | [1384] | ["facebook"] | ["facebook"] | ["facebook-users","facebook-users-interested-in-covid-information","facebook-users-interested-in-the-us-presidential-election"] | Avaaz, an international advocacy group, released a review of Facebook's misinformation identifying software showing that the labeling process failed to label 42% of false information posts, most surrounding COVID-19 and the 2020 USA Presidential Election. | Tiny Changes Let False Claims About COVID-19, Voting Evade Facebook Fact Checks | 2,020 | false information posts | misinformation | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e4343edc875fe63a4b) | 77 | 2019-10-04T00:00:00 | [1340,1390,1878,2201,2202] | ["knightscope"] | ["knightscope"] | ["cogo-guebara","unnamed-woman-injured-in-the-fight"] | A Knightscope K5 autonomous "police" robot patrolling Huntington Park, California failed to respond to an onlooker who attempted to activate its emergency alert button when a nearby fight broke out. | Knightscope's Park Patrol Robot Ignored Bystander Pressing Emergency Button to Alert Police about Fight | 2,019 | an onlooker | police | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e4343edc875fe63a4c) | 78 | 2020-07-06T00:00:00 | [1341] | ["international-baccalaurette"] | ["international-baccalaurette"] | ["international-baccalaureate-students"] | In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the International Baccalaureate final exams were replaced by a calculated score, prompting complaints of unfairness from teachers and students. | Meet the Secret Algorithm That's Keeping Students Out of College | 2,020 | a calculated score | unfairness | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e6343edc875fe63a5d) | 96 | 2017-05-08T00:00:00 | [1398] | ["houston-independent-school-district"] | ["sas-institute"] | ["houston-independent-school-district-teachers"] | On May 4, 2017, a U.S. federal judge advanced teachers’ claims that the Houston Independent School District’s algorithmic teacher evaluations violated their due process rights to their jobs by not allowing them to review the grounds of their termination. | Houston Schools Must Face Teacher Evaluation Lawsuit | 2,017 | their termination | termination | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e5343edc875fe63a56) | 88 | 2017-08-15T00:00:00 | [1388,2183] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["jewish-people","google-images-users"] | Google's Image search for "Jewish baby strollers" showed offensive, anti-Semitic results, allegedly a result of a coordinated hate-speech campaign involving malicious actors on 4chan. | "Jewish Baby Strollers" Provided Anti-Semitic Google Images, Allegedly Resulting from Hate Speech Campaign | 2,017 | allegedly a result | hate | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e4343edc875fe63a47) | 73 | 2016-03-01T00:00:00 | [1320,1321,1322,1323,1324,1325,1327,1343] | ["niantic-labs"] | ["niantic-labs"] | ["non-white-neighborhoods","communities-of-color"] | Through a crowdsourcing social media campaign in 2016, several journalists and researchers demonstrated that augmented reality locations in the popular smartphone game Pokemon Go were more likely to be in white neighborhoods. | Is Pokémon Go racist? How the app may be redlining communities of color | 2,016 | likely | reality locations | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e4343edc875fe63a49) | 75 | 2012-01-05T00:00:00 | [1337] | ["google"] | ["google"] | ["jewish-people","jewish-public-figures"] | The organizations SOS Racisme, Union of Jewish Students of France, Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Among Peoples are suing Google due to its autocomplete software suggesting "jewish" when the names of certain public figures were searched on the platform. | Google Instant's Allegedly 'Anti-Semitic' Results Lead To Lawsuit In France | 2,012 | SOS Racisme | racism | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e4343edc875fe63a4f) | 81 | 2020-10-21T00:00:00 | [1381] | ["mount-sinai-hospitals"] | ["google","qure.ai","aidoc","darwinai"] | ["patients-of-minority-groups","low-income-patients","female-patients","hispanic-patients","patients-with-medicaid-insurance"] | A study by the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, and MIT showed the input databases that trained AI systems used to classify chest X-rays led the systems to show gender, socioeconomic, and racial biases. | Researchers find evidence of racial, gender, and socioeconomic bias in chest X-ray classifiers | 2,020 | gender, socioeconomic, and racial biases | racial biases | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e5343edc875fe63a54) | 86 | 2020-10-08T00:00:00 | [1386,2038] | ["irish-department-of-education-and-skills"] | ["irish-department-of-education-and-skills"] | ["leaving-certificate-exam-takers","irish-department-of-education-and-skills"] | Errors in Irish Department of Education's algorithm to calculate students’ Leaving Certificate exam grades resulted in thousands of inaccurate scores. | Coding Errors in Leaving Certificate Grading Algorithm Caused Inaccurate Scores in Ireland | 2,020 | inaccurate scores | errors | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e4343edc875fe63a48) | 74 | 2020-01-30T00:00:00 | [1336,1400,1467,1484,1543,1837,2027,2028,2029,2734] | ["detroit-police-department"] | ["dataworks-plus"] | ["robert-julian-borchak-williams","black-people-in-detroit"] | A Black man was wrongfully detained by the Detroit Police Department as a result of a false facial recognition (FRT) result.. | Detroit Police Wrongfully Arrested Black Man Due To Faulty FRT | 2,020 | a false facial recognition | false facial recognition | system, recognition, facial |
ObjectId(625763e6343edc875fe63a5c) | 95 | 2019-11-06T00:00:00 | [2133,2132,1397,2194] | ["hirevue"] | ["hirevue"] | ["job-applicants-using-hirevue","hirevue-customers"] | In January 2021, HireVue removed the controversial AI expression tracking tool from its virtual job interview software. | Job Screening Service Halts Facial Analysis of Applicants | 2,019 | removed | controversial ai expression | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e4343edc875fe63a4e) | 80 | 2020-10-24T00:00:00 | [1380,1559] | ["inverness-caledonian-thistle-football-club"] | ["unknown"] | ["livestream-viewers"] | In a Scottish soccer match the AI-enabled ball-tracking camera used to livestream the game repeatedly tracked an official’s bald head as though it were the soccer ball. | AI mistakes referee’s bald head for football — hilarity ensued | 2,020 | an official’s bald head | bald head | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e5343edc875fe63a51) | 83 | 2020-10-15T00:00:00 | [1383] | ["gmail","outlook","yahoo","gmx","laposte"] | ["gmail","outlook","yahoo","gmx","laposte"] | ["email-users"] | Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, GMX, and LaPoste email inbox sites showed racial and content-based biases when AlgorithmWatch tested their spam box filtering algorithms. | Spam filters are efficient and uncontroversial. Until you look at them. | 2,020 | racial and content-based biases | biases | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e6343edc875fe63a5e) | 97 | 2020-10-22T00:00:00 | [1399] | ["tesla"] | ["tesla"] | ["tesla-drivers"] | A Tesla Model 3 misidentified flags with "COOP" written vertically on them as traffic lights. | Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Red Letters on Flag for Red Traffic Lights | 2,020 | misidentified | flags | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e6343edc875fe63a5f) | 98 | 2021-04-28T00:00:00 | [1401] | ["new-york-city-police-department"] | ["boston-dynamics"] | ["new-york-city-low-income-communities"] | The New York Police Department canceled a contract to use Boston Dynamics' robotic dog Spot following public backlash. | N.Y.P.D. Robot Dog’s Run Is Cut Short After Fierce Backlash | 2,021 | public backlash | public backlash | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e4343edc875fe63a4d) | 79 | 1999-03-16T00:00:00 | [1379,1736,2039] | ["chronic-kidney-disease-epidemiology-collaboration"] | ["chronic-kidney-disease-epidemiology-collaboration"] | ["black-patients","african-american-patients"] | Decades-long use of the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) method to test kidney function which considers race has been criticized by physicians and medical students for its racist history and inaccuracy against Black patients. | Kidney Testing Method Allegedly Underestimated Risk of Black Patients | 1,999 | its racist history | racist history | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e5343edc875fe63a55) | 87 | 2020-10-07T00:00:00 | [1387] | ["uk-home-office"] | ["uk-home-office"] | ["dark-skinned-people","dark-skinned-women"] | UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women. | UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women | 2,020 | dark-skinned women | bias | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e5343edc875fe63a58) | 91 | 2020-12-18T00:00:00 | [1391,1392,1463,1720,1779] | ["stanford-medical-center"] | ["stanford-medical-center"] | ["stanford-medical-frontline-workers","stanford-medical-residents"] | In 2020, Stanford Medical Center's distribution algorithm only designated 7 of 5,000 vaccines to Medical Residents, who are frontline workers regularly exposed to COVID-19. | Frontline workers protest at Stanford after hospital distributed vaccine to administrators | 2,020 | frontline workers | distribution algorithm | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e4343edc875fe63a4a) | 76 | 2020-10-09T00:00:00 | [1339] | ["buenos-aires-city-government"] | ["unknown"] | ["buenos-aires-children"] | Buenos Aires city government uses a facial recognition system that has led to numerous false arrests. | Live facial recognition is tracking kids suspected of being criminals | 2,020 | a facial recognition system | numerous false arrests | system, recognition, facial |
ObjectId(625763e5343edc875fe63a59) | 92 | 2019-11-11T00:00:00 | [1393,1396,2035,2036,2037,2274] | ["goldman-sachs"] | ["apple"] | ["apple-card-female-users","apple-card-female-credit-applicants"] | Apple Card's credit assessment algorithm was reported by Goldman-Sachs customers to have shown gender bias, in which men received significantly higher credit limits than women with equal credit qualifications. | Apple Card's Credit Assessment Algorithm Allegedly Discriminated against Women | 2,019 | gender bias | gender bias | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e5343edc875fe63a57) | 89 | 2019-03-15T00:00:00 | [1389] | ["youtube"] | ["youtube"] | ["youtube-users"] | A New Zealand government report released following a right-wing terrorist killing 51 worshippers at two New Sealand mosques which indicated that Youtube's recommendation algorithm played an important role in the terrorist's radicalization. | The Christchurch shooter and YouTube’s radicalization trap | 2,019 | an important role | radicalization | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e6343edc875fe63a5b) | 94 | 2020-11-27T00:00:00 | [1395,1473] | ["deliveroo"] | ["deliveroo"] | ["deliveroo-workers-with-legitimate-reasons-for-cancelling-shifts","deliveroo-workers"] | In December 2020, an Italian court ruled that Deliveroo’s employee ‘reliability’ algorithm illegally discriminated against workers with legitimate reasons for cancelling shifts. | Court Rules Deliveroo Used 'Discriminatory' Algorithm | 2,020 | legitimate reasons | shifts | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e7343edc875fe63a6b) | 110 | 2016-01-01T00:00:00 | [1413,2651] | ["arkansas-department-of-human-services"] | ["interrai"] | ["arkansas-medicaid-waiver-program-beneficiaries","arkansas-healthcare-workers"] | Beneficiaries of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS)'s Medicaid waiver program were allocated excessively fewer hours of caretaker visit via an algorithm deployed to boost efficiency, which reportedly contained errors and whose outputs varied wildly despite small input changes. | Arkansas's Opaque Algorithm to Allocate Health Care Excessively Cut Down Hours for Beneficiaries | 2,016 | excessively fewer hours | fewer hours | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e7343edc875fe63a6c) | 111 | 2015-09-25T00:00:00 | [1426,1427,1428,1429,1430] | ["amazon-flex"] | ["amazon"] | ["amazon-flex-employees","amazon-flex-drivers"] | Amazon Flex's contract delivery drivers were dismissed using a minimally human-interfered automated employee performance evaluation based on indicators impacted by out-of-driver's-control factors and without having a chance to defend against or appeal the decision. | Amazon Flex Drivers Allegedly Fired via Automated Employee Evaluations | 2,015 | the decision | decision | bias, content, false |
ObjectId(625763e7343edc875fe63a65) | 104 | 2021-02-12T00:00:00 | [1407] | ["california-department-of-public-health"] | ["blue-shield-of-california"] | ["california-low-income-neighborhoods","california-communities-of-color"] | California's vaccine-distribution algorithm used ZIP codes as opposed to census tracts in its decision-making, which critics said undermined equity and access for vulnerable communities who are largely low-income, underserved neighborhoods with low Healthy Places Index scores. | California's Algorithm Considered ZIP Codes in Vaccine Distribution, Allegedly Excluding Low-Income Neighborhoods and Communities of Color | 2,021 | vulnerable communities | vulnerable communities | bias, content, false |