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St George's Hospital Medical School allegedly Automated Admissions with Discriminatory Results

AI Incident Database · article · Mar 5, 1998 · UTC

From 1982 to 1986, St George's Hospital Medical School used a program to automate a portion of their admissions process that allegedly discriminated against women and members of ethnic minorities.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 1998-03-05T00:00:00.000Z

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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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