Incident 150: Swedish Contraceptive App, Natural Cycles, Allegedly Failed to Correctly Map Menstrual Cycle
Description: Some women using the contraceptive app, Natural Cycles, reported unwanted pregnancies, revealing its algorithm's difficulties in mapping menstrual cycles.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Natural Cycles developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Natural Cycles users and Women.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
150
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2018-07-21
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Natural Cycles was hailed as a stress-free, hormone-free contraceptive. Then women began reporting unwanted pregnancies.
Last summer I had an abortion. Statistically unremarkable, yes, but mine wasn’t because of a split condom or a missed p…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
