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University of Texas at Austin AI failures

Every documented AI failure involving University of Texas at Austin 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-0153Public SectorMedium
Policy Violation

UT Austin scrapped its GRADE machine-learning PhD admissions system over entrenched bias

UT Austin's Department of Computer Science used GRADE, a machine-learning system trained on past admissions decisions, to score and organize PhD applications from 2013 through 2019. Critics identified that the system reproduced historical inequities by encoding institutional prestige bias and linguistic patterns from recommendation letters that disadvantaged underrepresented groups. The university discontinued GRADE in 2020, officially citing maintenance difficulties, though the announcement coincided with public criticism about its fairness.

Confidence
High (multi-source, primary)
University of Texas at Austin3 sourcesPrimaryPublicDec 2020

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