US EditionThis AI Was Supposed to Detect Guns in School. It Called the Cops on a Teen Eating Doritos
AI misidentification led to a Black teen being detained at Kenwood High School, highlighting concerns over racial bias and flawed weapon detection technology in schools.
- This year, Taki Allen, a 16-year-old student at Kenwood High School, was flagged by AI after eating and crumpling a Doritos bag mistaken for a gun.
- Districts turned to AI amid rising violence, and Kenwood used Omnilert, Virginia-based AI startup operating on 7,000 school cameras, forwarding verified alerts to Baltimore County Public Schools safety team this year.
- Responding to a 'man with a gun' call, local police officers arrived in multiple patrol cars and cuffed Allen twenty minutes later with guns pointed at him.
- Allen now plans to stay inside after practice and fears eating snacks in public, while no apology was issued to Allen or his family.
- Industry critics note that districts spent about $1,000,000 on systems after shootings while the industry has repeatedly overpromised and under-delivered, and experts warn algorithms show repeated racial bias flagging Black teens like Allen.
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Gun-Toting Police Swarm, Handcuff Young Black Man After AI Mistakes Doritos Bag For a Gun
Free Future home On Monday night a Black Baltimore teenager, Taki Allen, had finished football practice and was sitting outside his school waiting to be picked up. That school, which is supposed to protect its students, instead brought down on his head a traumatic and potentially deadly incident thanks to its video cameras and their “enhancement” with AI. Allen said he ate a bag of chips, crumbled it up, and put it in his pocket. Apparently an A…
Op-ed | Gun-Toting Police Swarm, Handcuff Young Black Man after AI Mistakes Doritos Bag for a Gun
A Black Baltimore teenager was swarmed by police after an AI-enhanced surveillance camera falsely identified a bag of chips in his pocket as a gun, leading to a traumatic and potentially deadly incident.
Police swarm student after AI security system mistakes bag of chips for gun - NEW YORK TIMES POST
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Police officers swarmed a 16-year-old high school student last week after an artificial intelligence (AI) gun detection system mistakenly flagged his bag of chips as a firearm, leaving officials and students shaken. Student Taki Allen was waiting for his ride at Kenwood High School in Essex, Maryland, last Monday when he placed an empty bag of chips in his pocket, according to WMAR-2 News. Moments late…
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