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Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon (www.dexerto.com)
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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.

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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended”

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"yeah this time it wasn't a gun, but the kid is black for Christ's sake, what did you expect us to do? So obviously its functioning as intended."

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

This is pretty much my takeaway as well

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago

It successfully got a false positive that resulted in a black kid getting swarmed by police. Job well done, amirite?

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago

The purpose of a system is what it does, indeed.