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The Guardian: US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun

Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious

"...An artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.

Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him.
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Allen said they made him get on his knees, handcuffed and searched him – finding nothing. They then showed him a copy of the picture that had triggered the alert...."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/24/baltimore-student-ai-gun-detection-system-doritos

#doritos #ai

US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun

Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious

The Guardian
Oct 24 at 4:45pmWeb
Show threadPaul Chambers🚧Oct 24
@ai6yr Coming soon to subways, bus stops, arenas, banks, Walmart, etc. ...this is just the beginning of this nonsense. Eventually, a Rambo cop, jacked up on his self-prescribing "buff me up" male medications, steroids, and hormones, will shoot and kill someone during the takedown.
Show threadteledyn 𓂀Oct 24

@ai6yr

Doritos? If an entire hospital can be considered a rocket base because a camera was shaded from sitting in the sun, then perhaps we count the blessing they began with "excessive force" instead of the "lethal" used elsewhere.

And it's a great way to teach Trust vs Police to children.

Show threadarceuthobiumOct 24
@ai6yr good thing the ED-209 has been thoroughly debugged.
Show threadDarwin WoodkaOct 24

@ai6yr

Get rid of this AI bullshit NOW

Show threadHep CatOct 24
@ai6yr Nevermind the AI system that generated an alert. Why did the police misidentify a picture of a bag of chips for a gun?!?
Show threadAI6YR BenOct 24
@heppycat More than a few people have been killed for holding cell phones.
Show threadme_valentijnOct 24
@heppycat @ai6yr
Cops will use whatever excuse they can get. And AI will be happy to provide it to them.
Show threadsu_liamOct 24
@heppycat @ai6yr No human looked at the picture, or they looked and decided the “expert system” must be seeing something they’re not. Either way, it’s people being consumers of thought rather than thinking.
Show threadpoleguy looking for lost toolsOct 24
@ai6yr If the AI system made a profit for the company that sold it to the police then it worked as designed. :-(