Incident 162: ETS Used Allegedly Flawed Voice Recognition Evidence to Accuse and Assess Scale of Cheating, Causing Thousands to be Deported from the UK

Description: International testing organization ETS admits voice recognition as evidence of cheating for thousands of previous TOEIC test-takers that reportedly included wrongfully accused people, causing them to be deported without an appeal process or seeing their incriminating evidence.

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Alleged: ETS developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed UK ETS past test takers , UK ETS test takers and UK Home Office.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
162
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2014-01-01
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

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bbc.com · 2022

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