Incident 355: Uber Allegedly Wrongfully Accused Drivers of Fraud via Automated Systems

Description: Uber was alleged in a lawsuit to have wrongfully accused its drivers in the UK and Portugal of fraudulent activity through automated systems, which resulted in their dismissal without a right to appeal.

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Alleged: Uber developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Uber drivers.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
355
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2018-07-07
Editors
Khoa Lam

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.