Incident #171·AI Safety & Failures
Traffic Camera Misread Text on Pedestrian's Shirt as License Plate, Causing UK Officials to Issue Fine to an Unrelated Person
Explainability
Description
A Bath resident was wrongly fined by the local officials because an automated license plate recognition camera misread the text on her shirt as a license plate number.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- bath-government
Alleged Developers
- unknown
Harmed Parties
- uk-public
- paula-knight
- bath-officials
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Topics
Explainability
Source
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