Incident 188: Argentinian City Government Deployed Teenage-Pregnancy Predictive Algorithm Using Invasive Demographic Data

Description: In 2018, during the abortion-decriminalization debate in Argentina, the Salta city government deployed a teenage-pregnancy predictive algorithm built by Microsoft that allegedly lacked a defined purpose, explicitly considered sensitive information such as disability and whether their home had access to hot water.

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Alleged: Microsoft developed an AI system deployed by Salta city government, which harmed Salta teenage girls and Salta girls of minority groups.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
188
Report Count
4
Incident Date
2018-04-11
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
GMF, MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

1.1. Unfair discrimination and misrepresentation

Risk Domain

  1. Discrimination and Toxicity

Entity

Human

Timing

Post-deployment

Intent

Intentional

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