Incident 302: Students Allegedly Wrongfully Accused of Cheating via Medical School's Internal Software
Description: Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine allegedly falsely accused students of cheating during remote exams using an internally built system which tracked student activity patterns without their knowledge on its learning management platform.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Geisel School of Medicine's Technology staff and Canvas developed an AI system deployed by Geisel School of Medicine, which harmed Sirey Zhang , Geisel School of Medicine's students , Geisel School of Medicine's professors and Geisel School of Medicine's accused students.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
302
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2021-03-15
Editors
Sean McGregor
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
nytimes.com · 2021
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HANOVER, N.H. — Sirey Zhang, a first-year student at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, was on spring break in March when he received an email from administrators accusing him of cheating.
Dartmouth had reviewed Mr. Zhang’s online activ…
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.