Incident #91·AI Safety & Failures
Frontline workers protest at Stanford after hospital distributed vaccine to administrators
Explainability
Description
In 2020, Stanford Medical Center's distribution algorithm only designated 7 of 5,000 vaccines to Medical Residents, who are frontline workers regularly exposed to COVID-19.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- stanford-medical-center
Alleged Developers
- stanford-medical-center
Harmed Parties
- stanford-medical-frontline-workers
- stanford-medical-residents
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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