Incident 404: Sound Intelligence's Aggression Detector Misidentified Innocuous Sounds
Description: Sound Intelligence's "aggression detection" algorithm deployed by schools reportedly contained high rates of false positive, misclassifying laughing, coughing, cheering, and loud discussions.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Sound Intelligence developed an AI system deployed by Rock Hill Schools and Pinecrest Academy Horizon, which harmed students , Rock Hill School students and Pinecrest Academy Horizon students.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
404
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2019-06-25
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Ariella Russcol specializes in drama at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens, New York, and the senior's performance on this April afternoon didn't disappoint. While the library is normally the quietest room in the school, her ear…
Introduction
This companion article to our main story describes the testing and data analysis ProPublica conducted for the Sound Intelligence aggression detection algorithm on the Louroe Digifact A microphone. Here, we discuss the data and …
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.
