Description: A company's AI predicting a person's gender based on their name, email address, or username was reported by its users to show biased and inaccurate results.
Entidades
Ver todas las entidadesPresunto: un sistema de IA desarrollado e implementado por Genderify, perjudicó a Genderify customers y gender minority groups.
Estadísticas de incidentes
ID
115
Cantidad de informes
3
Fecha del Incidente
2020-07-28
Editores
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
Clasificaciones de la Taxonomía CSETv1
Detalles de la TaxonomíaIncident Number
The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
115
Special Interest Intangible Harm
An assessment of whether a special interest intangible harm occurred. This assessment does not consider the context of the intangible harm, if an AI was involved, or if there is characterizable class or subgroup of harmed entities. It is also not assessing if an intangible harm occurred. It is only asking if a special interest intangible harm occurred.
no
Notes (AI special interest intangible harm)
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There is no evidence or indication that the system led to any special interest intangible harms through its use or deployment.
Date of Incident Year
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2020
Date of Incident Month
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07
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Clasificaciones de la Taxonomía CSETv1_Annotator-1
Detalles de la TaxonomíaIncident Number
The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
115
Special Interest Intangible Harm
An assessment of whether a special interest intangible harm occurred. This assessment does not consider the context of the intangible harm, if an AI was involved, or if there is characterizable class or subgroup of harmed entities. It is also not assessing if an intangible harm occurred. It is only asking if a special interest intangible harm occurred.
yes
Notes (AI special interest intangible harm)
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It is unclear that any harmed entities can be characterized in this incident. Although the AI did exhibit bias against women, the extent of the harm stopped at the ineffectiveness of the tool.
Date of Incident Year
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2020
Clasificaciones de la Taxonomía CSETv1_Annotator-3
Detalles de la TaxonomíaIncident Number
The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
115