Incident 375: Thai Wallet App's Facial Recognition Errors Created Registration Issues for Government Programs

Description: A Thai wallet app failed to recognize people’s faces, resulting in citizens and disproportionately elders unable to sign up for Thai government’s cash handout and co-pay programs or having to wait in long queues at local ATMs for authentication.

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Alleged: Krungthai Bank developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Thai citizens and elder Thai citizens.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
375
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2019-09-29
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.