Fujitsu / Post Office Ltd
Fujitsu / Post Office Ltd — organisation named in the Production AI Institute incident registry.
What changed
The UK Post Office prosecuted over 700 subpostmasters for theft and fraud based on accounting discrepancies produced by the Horizon IT system — a system known internally to have software bugs. Subpostmasters were imprisoned and bankrupted. The Post Office suppressed evidence of Horizon's defects fo…
Timeline
- 1 Jan 1999UK Post Office Horizon — AI as Infallible EvidenceIncident80%