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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
Is Pokémon Go racist? How the app may be redlining communities of color
Through a crowdsourcing social media campaign in 2016, several journalists and researchers demonstrated that augmented reality locations in the popular smartphone game Pokemon Go were more likely to be in white neighborhoods.
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Reported occurrence date: 2016-03-01T00:00:00.000Z
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- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2016-03-01T00:00:00.000Z
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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