LLMMedium
Swedish Contraceptive App, Natural Cycles, Allegedly Failed to Correctly Map Menstrual Cycle
- Occurred
- Jul 21, 2018
- Published
- Jan 18, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Some women using the contraceptive app, Natural Cycles, reported unwanted pregnancies, revealing its algorithm's difficulties in mapping menstrual cycles.
Developers
- Natural Cycles
Deployers
- Natural Cycles
Harmed parties
- Women
- Natural Cycles users
- Women and girls
Classification
Category confidence: 60%
Severity confidence: 70%
Rationale: App algorithm failure causing unintended pregnancies, but not a classic LLM issue; fits best under tech failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8