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City of Gothenburg AI failures

Every documented AI failure involving City of Gothenburg on the AI Failure Index, classified by the mechanism that broke.

Failures
1
Highest severity
Medium
Span
2020
Failure modes
1
By failure mode
By severity
FI-0454Public SectorMedium
Agentic Action Error

Gothenburg school placement algorithm uses straight-line distance

The City of Gothenburg's school placement algorithm failed by using straight-line distance instead of actual routing to assign students to schools. This led to incorrect assignments and public outcry in May 2020.

Confidence
Medium (multi-source)
City of Gothenburg2 sourcesPressPublicMay 2020

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