Incident 99: Major Universities Are Using Race as a “High Impact Predictor” of Student Success
Description: Several major universities are using a tool that uses race as one factor to predict student success.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: EAB developed an AI system deployed by University of Massachusetts Amherst , University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee , University of Houston , Texas A&M University , Georgia State University and more than 500 colleges, which harmed Black college students , Latinx college students and indigenous students.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
99
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2012-01-01
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
Major universities are using their students’ race, among other variables, to predict how likely they are to drop out of school. Documents obtained by The Markup through public records requests show that some schools are using education rese…
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.
