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Sound Intelligence's Aggression Detector Misidentified Innocuous Sounds

AI Incident Database · article · Jun 25, 2019 · UTC

Sound Intelligence's "aggression detection" algorithm deployed by schools reportedly contained high rates of false positive, misclassifying laughing, coughing, cheering, and loud discussions.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2019-06-25T00:00:00.000Z

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AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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