Incident #310·AI Safety & Failures
High False Positive Rate by SWP's Facial Recognition Use at Champion's League Final
Explainability
Description
South Wales Police (SWP)’s automated facial recognition (AFR) at the Champion's League Final football game in Cardiff wrongly identified innocent people as potential matches at an extremely high false positive rate of more than 90%.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- south-wales-police
Alleged Developers
- nec
Harmed Parties
- finals-attendees
- falsely-accused-finals-attendees
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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