Description: Oregon’s Department of Human Services (DHS) stopped using its Safety at Screening Tool, that is aimed to predict the risk that children wind up in foster care or be investigated in the future, and opted for a new process allegedly to reduce disparities and improve racially equitable decision-making.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Oregon Department of Human Services developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed children of minority groups and families of minority groups.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
238
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2018-10-01
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
lagrandeobserver.com · 2022
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WASHINGTON — Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say will make better, more racially equitable deci…
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.