Description: Broward College’s use of remote proctoring system and reliance on its flagging algorithm allegedly led to a wrongful accusation of academic dishonesty in a biology exam of a Florida teenager.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Honorlock developed an AI system deployed by Broward College, which harmed unnamed Florida teenager.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
301
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2022-02-15
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
CSETv1_Annotator-1 Taxonomy Classifications
Taxonomy DetailsIncident Number
The number of the incident in the AI Incident Database.
301
AI Tangible Harm Level Notes
Notes about the AI tangible harm level assessment
3.1 - The student received a 0 on the exam and a "warning on her record" as a result of being flagged as engaging in academically dishonest behavior.
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
nytimes.com · 2022
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A Florida teenager taking a biology class at a community college got an upsetting note this year. A start-up called Honorlock had flagged her as acting suspiciously during an exam in February. She was, she said in an email to The New York T…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.