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Argentinian City Government Deployed Teenage-Pregnancy Predictive Algorithm Using Invasive Demographic Data

AI Incident Database · article · Jan 30, 2019 · UTC

In 2018, during the abortion-decriminalization debate in Argentina, the Salta city government deployed a teenage-pregnancy predictive algorithm built by Microsoft that allegedly lacked a defined purpose, explicitly considered sensitive information such as disability and whether their home had access to hot water.

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incident-report
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2018-04-11T00:00:00.000Z

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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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