Privacy

3199 readers

431 users here now

Icon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon@programming.dev

danielintempesta@programming.dev

126

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

submitted 2 months ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago

Eating Doritos while black

[–] calliope@retrolemmy.com 4 points 2 months 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.