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IRS Audited Black Taxpayers More Frequently Reportedly Due to Algorithm
The IRS was auditing Black taxpayers more frequently than other groups allegedly due to the design of their algorithms, focusing on easier-to-conduct audits which inadvertently correlated with the group's pattern of tax filing errors.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2008-07-18T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2023-01-30T00:00:00.000Z
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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