Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon - Dexerto
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Armed officers swarmed a 16-year-old student outside a Baltimore high school when an AI gun detection system flagged Doritos as a firearm.

Concerns over AI surveillance in schools are intensifying after armed officers swarmed a 16-year-old student outside Kenwood High School in Baltimore when an AI gun detection system falsely flagged a Doritos bag as a firearm.

Allen was handcuffed at gunpoint. Police later showed him the AI-captured image that triggered the alert. The crumpled Doritos bag in his pocket had been mistaken for a gun.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    16·
    1 day ago

    It sure looked like a gun in the message, assuming that was the image that was sent out and not a dramatisation.

    Also, I think it worked exactly how it was supposed to. It SWATted a person of colour. Par for the course. As it was trained to do.

    • brvslvrnst@lemmy.ml
      5·
      1 day ago

      I think that’s a dramatization, based on the subtitle there

      Edit:

      This looks fake as fuck lol

    • calliope@retrolemmy.com
      4·
      1 day ago

      That is a marketing image from the gun-identifying software company and isn’t actually related to the article.

      The article said he was outside and the crumpled bag of Doritos was hanging out of his pocket. He wasn’t brandishing it like a firearm.