BiasMedium
St George's Hospital Medical School allegedly Automated Admissions with Discriminatory Results
- Occurred
- Mar 5, 1998
- Published
- Dec 1, 2016
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
From 1982 to 1986, St George's Hospital Medical School used a program to automate a portion of their admissions process that allegedly discriminated against women and members of ethnic minorities.
Developers
- Geoffrey Franglen
Deployers
- St George's Hospital Medical School
Harmed parties
- Women
- Minority groups
- Women and girls
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Historical case of AI-driven discrimination in admissions based on gender and ethnicity.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8