BiasMedium
Transgender Uber Drivers Mistakenly Kicked off App for Appearance Change during Gender Transitions
- Occurred
- Jul 4, 2018
- Published
- Aug 8, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Transgender Uber drivers reported being automatically deactivated from the app due to Real-Time ID Check failing to account for difference in appearance of people undergoing gender transitions.
Developers
- Uber
Deployers
- Uber
Harmed parties
- transgender Uber drivers
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Automated system failure causing discrimination against transgender individuals based on appearance changes.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8