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Incident 171: Traffic Camera Misread Text on Pedestrian's Shirt as License Plate, Causing UK Officials to Issue Fine to an Unrelated Person

Description: A Bath resident was wrongly fined by the local officials because an automated license plate recognition camera misread the text on her shirt as a license plate number.

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Alleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by Bath government, which harmed Paula Knight , Bath officials and UK public.

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Incident ID
171
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2021-10-18
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam
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GMF, MIT

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Known AI Goal Snippets

One or more snippets that justify the classification.
 

(Snippet Text: This is one of the reasons the world is working so hard on robotaxis, and why traffic enforcement in large cities has moved to license-plate reading traffic cameras. In both cases, accuracy and reliability seem to be the biggest problems., Related Classifications: License Plate Recognition)

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A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

7.3. Lack of capability or robustness

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The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. AI system safety, failures, and limitations

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AI

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Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Unintentional

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Incident OccurrenceDriver Fined After Traffic Camera Thinks Pedestrian’s Shirt Is a License Plate
Driver Fined After Traffic Camera Thinks Pedestrian’s Shirt Is a License Plate

Driver Fined After Traffic Camera Thinks Pedestrian’s Shirt Is a License Plate

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Driver Fined After Traffic Camera Thinks Pedestrian’s Shirt Is a License Plate
thedrive.com · 2021

The purpose of automating any task is to reduce cost and labor. This is one of the reasons the world is working so hard on robotaxis, and why traffic enforcement in large cities has moved to license-plate reading traffic cameras. In both ca…

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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.

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