BiasHigh
ETS Used Allegedly Flawed Voice Recognition Evidence to Accuse and Assess Scale of Cheating, Causing Thousands to be Deported from the UK
- Occurred
- Jan 1, 2014
- Published
- Feb 9, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
International testing organization ETS admits voice recognition as evidence of cheating for thousands of previous TOEIC test-takers that reportedly included wrongfully accused people, causing them to be deported without an appeal process or seeing their incriminating evidence.
Developers
- ETS
Deployers
- ETS
Harmed parties
- UK Home Office
- UK ETS test takers
- UK ETS past test takers
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Voice recognition errors led to wrongful accusations and deportations, indicating discriminatory impact and severe harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8