Incident #404·AI Safety & Failures
Sound Intelligence's Aggression Detector Misidentified Innocuous Sounds
Explainability
Description
Sound Intelligence's "aggression detection" algorithm deployed by schools reportedly contained high rates of false positive, misclassifying laughing, coughing, cheering, and loud discussions.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- rock-hill-schools
- pinecrest-academy-horizon
Alleged Developers
- sound-intelligence
Harmed Parties
- students
- rock-hill-school-students
- pinecrest-academy-horizon-students
- epistemic-integrity
- educational-communities
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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