BiasMedium
UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women
- Occurred
- Oct 7, 2020
- Published
- Oct 7, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
UK passport photo checker shows bias against dark-skinned women.
Developers
- UK Home Office
- Government of the United Kingdom
Deployers
- UK Home Office
- Government of the United Kingdom
Harmed parties
- dark-skinned women
- dark-skinned people
- Women and girls
- Women
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI system exhibits discriminatory bias against dark-skinned women in passport photo verification.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8