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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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[-] Colloidal@programming.dev 35 points 10 months ago

the system “functioned as intended,” [...] Baltimore County Public Schools echoed the company’s statement

"We want a system that sends armed cops primed to kill a black student", says the community elected school board. "We believe that's what our racist constituents want", they continued.

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