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Remote Proctoring Facial-Detection Software Reportedly Failed to Detect Black Student During Lab Quiz
In February 2021, a Black college student, Amaya Ross, reportedly tried to take a remote biology lab quiz using proctoring software that could not detect her face. Ross said she spent 45 minutes changing lights, shades, position, and background before pointing an LED flashlight at her face so the app would work; the quiz itself was only 30 minutes.
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- incident-report
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- reported
- region
- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2021-02-01T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2022-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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