BiasMedium
Passport checker Detects Asian man's Eyes as Closed
- Occurred
- Dec 7, 2016
- Published
- Dec 7, 2016
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
New Zealand passport robot reader rejects the application of an applicant with Asian descent and says his eyes are closed.
Developers
- New Zealand
Deployers
- New Zealand
Harmed parties
- Asian people
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI system exhibits discriminatory behavior against Asian applicants due to facial recognition bias.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8