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CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
36
AI Tangible Harm Level Notes
3.5 - Although no harm occurred because the mistake was identified, Risk to the affected party was imminent.
Special Interest Intangible Harm
no
Date of Incident Year
2018
Date of Incident Month
11
Date of Incident Day
21
CSETv1_Annotator-1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
36
CSETv1_Annotator-2 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
46
AI Tangible Harm Level Notes
Detected advertisement on bus as a jaywalker.
Special Interest Intangible Harm
no
Date of Incident Year
2017
Date of Incident Month
11
Date of Incident Day
23
CSETv0 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsProblem Nature
Robustness
Physical System
Software only, Other:CCTV cameras, displays
Level of Autonomy
Medium
Nature of End User
Amateur
Public Sector Deployment
Yes
Data Inputs
photographs of people's facial features
GMF Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsKnown AI Goal Snippets
(Snippet Text: Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking
, Related Classifications: Face Recognition)
Known AI Goal Classification Discussion
Face Recognition: i.e. the context of ‘not a living human’ was not detected in order to produce a negative result on the face detection part of the recognition pipeline.
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Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking
China's war on jaywalking went to the next level last spring when AI-based facial recognition systems were integrated into some cross…
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Cities across China have debuted crime-fighting facial recognition technology to much fanfare over the past year. But some of these jaywalker-busting devices aren’t as impressive as they seem.
A facial recognition system in the city of Ning…
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China’s facial recognition systems are used to catch all types of criminals, from thieves to jaywalkers, in real time. This week, one facial recognition camera publicly shamed a famous business woman for jaywalking after its systems caught …
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The police have since deleted the infraction and claim they've upgraded the facial recognition technology to "reduce the false recognition rate," although it's unclear just what they could have done to address this specific issue.
While com…
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While China has moved ahead of the rest of the world in making facial recognition technology a part of people’s everyday life, there are systems in the country that need tweaking. Making a compelling case for change is the recent experience…
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China is increasingly dependent on facial recognition systems to name and shame citizens who jaywalk, but it reportedly hit a snag this week.
A camera at an intersection in the eastern city of Ningbo named famous businesswoman Dong…
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China hasn't been shy about using facial recognition tech to catch jaywalkers, and publicly shame them.
The technology aims to dissuade bad behaviour by recognising the offender's face, checking it with a database, then posting their inform…
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While China has moved ahead of the rest of the world in making facial recognition technology a part of people’s everyday life, there are systems in the country that need tweaking.
Making a compelling case for change is the recent experience…
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IF YOU RELY on facial recognition for aspects of your criminal justice system, you'd better hope it's reliable. So it may be reassuring to people concerned that China would use the technology to casually violate human rights that it's foole…
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The face of Dong Mingzhu, chairwoman of Shenzhen-listed Gree Electric Appliances, is splashed on a huge screen erected along a street in Ningbo, a city in the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang, to display the images of people caught jayw…
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Chinese Face Recognition Mistakes Bus Ad For Jaywalker
China has been using gait recognition as well as face recognition to automate the ticketing of jaywalkers, much like cameras are used in the USA to ticket people who run red lights. How…
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Chinese police have admitted to wrongly shaming a famous businesswoman after a facial recognition system designed to catch jaywalkers mistook an advert on the side of a bus for her actual face.
Dong Mingzhu, president of Chian's biggest air…
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Chinese cities have widely deployed facial recognition systems on their streets to catch and fine jaywalkers, but sometimes they don’t work as planned.
At one intersection in the eastern city of Ningbo, the face of famous Chinese businesswo…
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A system deployed by the Chinese government to identify jaywalkers, reportedly using real-time facial recognition, has mistakenly identified a celebrity as an offender after scanning her face from an advertisement on the side of a passing b…
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AI facial recog – it's all about as terrifying as this hokey stock picture suggests (whose subject is not Dong Mingzhu).
#F_AI_L An Artificial Intelligence system in China publicly shamed one of the country’s most prominent business executi…
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Traffic Cam In China Mistakes Bus Ad For Real Human Face
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China’s surveillance system is becoming increasingly omnipresent, with an estimated 200 million cameras and counting. While this state of existence alone is unsettling, it’s even more troubling that the machines are fucking up …
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Traffic Cam In China Mistakes Bus Ad For Real Human Face
If you're caught jaywalking in China, your photo could be put on display as punishment. Just like a woman whose face was on a bus ad when it went by the camera. Police are fixing the …
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Over-zealous AI systems in China have accused a woman pictured on the side of a bus of jaywalking.
The face of Dong Mingzhu, who heads China's biggest air-conditioner maker, was briefly shown on a billboard used to shame those who flout tra…
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A woman has been flagged for jaywalking by facial recognition tech in a Chinese city, only she wasn’t even there.
The woman in question was Dong Mingzhu, Chairwoman of China’s biggest maker of air conditioners, Gree Electric Appliances.
Min…
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It's not a big deal to jaywalk in India. Eight times out of ten, no one will even notice. But if you jaywalk in China, you might have to face something extremely embarrassing. While China has moved ahead of the rest of the world making faci…
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Artificial intelligence designed to shame jaywalkers in Ningbo, China, has backfired in recent days by misidentifying a woman in an advertisement on the side of a city bus as a jaywalking culprit.
Dong Mingzhu, who was in the ad and is head…
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Last December Synced compiled its first “Artificial Intelligence Failures” recap of AI gaffes from the previous year. AI has achieved remarkable progress, and many scientists dream of creating the Master Algorithm proposed by Pedro Domingos…
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Dong Mingzhu, president of Gree electronic appliances, during the 2018 APEC Conference on July 7, 2018. [Photo/VCG]
China home appliance queen Dong Mingzhu was confirmed to enter her seventh year as the chairwoman of of Gree Electric Applia…
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