Incident 158: Facial Recognition in Remote Learning Software Reportedly Failed to Recognize a Black Student’s Face

Description: A Black student's face was not recognized by the remote-proctoring software during check-in of a lab quiz, causing her to excessively change her environments for it to work as intended.

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Alleged: unknown developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Amaya Ross , Black students and Black test-takers.

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Incident ID
158
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2021-02-01
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

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Incident OccurrenceAmaya's Flashlight
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