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AI Incident Database: Algorithm Assessing Risk Faced by Victims of Gender Violence Misclassified Low-Risk Cases, Allegedly Leading to Homicide of Women and Children in Spain
In Spain, the algorithm that assesses recidivism risk in gender violence, VioGén, has allegedly critically underestimated the level of risk in a series of cases that ended in homicide of women and children since its first deployment.
AI Incident Database · Incident 186Operator lens (medium): inspect D1 (input boundary), D6 (autonomy oversight), D8 (provider fallback).
Confidence
82%
Sources
3
Entities
9
Detected
Event summary
In Spain, the algorithm that assesses recidivism risk in gender violence, VioGén, has allegedly critically underestimated the level of risk in a series of cases that ended in homicide of women and children since its first deployment.
D1D6D8
Linked entities
- spanish-secretary-of-state-for-security
organisation | 70%
- spanish-ministry-of-interior
organisation | 70%
- victims-of-gender-violence
organisation | 70%
- women
organisation | 70%
- minors
organisation | 70%
- victims-of-domestic-abuse
organisation | 70%
- general-public
organisation | 70%
- general-public-of-spain
organisation | 70%
- victims-of-gender-violence-in-spain
organisation | 70%
Related graph edges
| Edge | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| ent-aiid-spanish-secretary-of-state-for-security to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-spanish-secretary-of-state-for-security to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-spanish-secretary-of-state-for-security to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-spanish-secretary-of-state-for-security to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-spanish-secretary-of-state-for-security to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-spanish-secretary-of-state-for-security to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-spanish-secretary-of-state-for-security to ent-psf-d8 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-spanish-secretary-of-state-for-security to ent-psf-d8 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-spanish-secretary-of-state-for-security to ent-psf-d8 | maps to | 60% |