Incident 137: Israeli Tax Authority Employed Opaque Algorithm to Impose Fines, Reportedly Refusing to Provide an Explanation for Amount Calculation to a Farmer

Description: An Israeli farmer was imposed a computer generated fine by the tax authority, who allegedly were not able to explain its calculation, and refused to disclose the program and its source code.

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Alleged: Israeli Tax Authority developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Moshe Har Shemesh and Israeli people having tax fines.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
137
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2021-01-11
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

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Known AI Goal

Financial Processing

Potential AI Technology

Regression

Known AI Technical Failure

Lack of Transparency

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