BiasMedium
Frontline workers protest at Stanford after hospital distributed vaccine to administrators
- Occurred
- Dec 18, 2020
- Published
- Dec 21, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- Stanford Medical Center
Deployers
- Stanford Medical Center
Harmed parties
- Stanford Medical frontline workers
- Stanford Medical residents
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Algorithmic allocation favored administrators over frontline workers, causing discrimination and protest.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8