BiasHigh
US CBP App's Failure to Detect Black Faces Reportedly Blocked Asylum Applications
- Occurred
- Jan 18, 2023
- Published
- Mar 11, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
CBP One's facial recognition feature was reportedly disproportionately failing to detect faces of Black asylum seekers from Haiti and African countries, effectively blocking their asylum applications.
Developers
- US Customs and Border Protection
Deployers
- US Customs and Border Protection
Harmed parties
- Haitian asylum seekers
- African asylum seekers
- Black asylum seekers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facial recognition failure disproportionately affected Black asylum seekers, causing significant harm to their legal rights.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8