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Incident 301: Honorlock's AI Proctoring System Reportedly Led Broward College to Accuse a Teenager of Cheating

Description: During a February 2022 online biology exam, Honorlock reportedly flagged a Florida teenager taking a Broward College class as suspicious. The student denied cheating, but Broward College allegedly relied on the remote-proctoring system's flag in pursuing an academic-dishonesty accusation that the student said was unfounded.

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Alleged: Honorlock developed an AI system deployed by Broward College, which harmed Unnamed Broward College student , University students , Students , Epistemic integrity and Educational communities.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Honorlock remote proctoring system , Automated proctoring systems and AI-enabled decision support systems

Incident Stats

Incident ID
301
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2022-02-15
Editors
Khoa Lam, Daniel Atherton
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MIT

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Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

1.1. Unfair discrimination and misrepresentation

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. Discrimination and Toxicity

Entity

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AI

Timing

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Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Unintentional

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Incident OccurrenceAccused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
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Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met

Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met

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Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
nytimes.com · 2022

A Florida teenager taking a biology class at a community college got an upsetting note this year. A start-up called Honorlock had flagged her as acting suspiciously during an exam in February. She was, she said in an email to The New York T…

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