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Incident 454: Emotion Detection Models Showed Disparate Performance along Racial Lines

Description: Emotion detection tools by Face++ and Microsoft's Face API allegedly scored smiling or defaulted ambiguous facial photos for Black faces as negative emotion more often than for white faces.

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Alleged: Megvii and Microsoft developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Black people.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
454
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2018-11-09
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
CSETv1, MIT

CSETv1 Taxonomy Classifications

Taxonomy Details

Incident Number

The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
 

454

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

Date of Incident Year

The year in which the incident occurred. If there are multiple harms or occurrences of the incident, list the earliest. If a precise date is unavailable, but the available sources provide a basis for estimating the year, estimate. Otherwise, leave blank. Enter in the format of YYYY
 

2018

Date of Incident Month

The month in which the incident occurred. If there are multiple harms or occurrences of the incident, list the earliest. If a precise date is unavailable, but the available sources provide a basis for estimating the month, estimate. Otherwise, leave blank. Enter in the format of MM
 

12

Date of Incident Day

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Estimated Date

“Yes” if the data was estimated. “No” otherwise.
 

No

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
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Risk Subdomain

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

1.1. Unfair discrimination and misrepresentation

Risk Domain

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. Discrimination and Toxicity

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

AI

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

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 OccurrenceRacial Influence on Automated Perceptions of EmotionsEmotion-reading tech fails the racial bias test
Racial Influence on Automated Perceptions of Emotions

Racial Influence on Automated Perceptions of Emotions

papers.ssrn.com

Emotion-reading tech fails the racial bias test

Emotion-reading tech fails the racial bias test

theconversation.com

Racial Influence on Automated Perceptions of Emotions
papers.ssrn.com · 2018

Abstract

The practical applications of artificial intelligence are expanding into various elements of society, leading to a growing interest in the potential biases of such algorithms. Facial analysis, one application of artificial intellig…

Emotion-reading tech fails the racial bias test
theconversation.com · 2019

Facial recognition technology has progressed to point where it now interprets emotions in facial expressions. This type of analysis is increasingly used in daily life. For example, companies can use facial recognition software to help with …

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