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Doritos, Drones, and Doubt: Baltimore’s AI Safety Experiment Just Pointed a Gun at Common Sense

In the age of artificial intelligence, it seems even a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos can get you held at gunpoint. That’s exactly what happened to 16-year-old Taki Allen outside Kenwood High School in Essex, Maryland, on October 20, after Baltimore County Public Schools’ (BCPS) AI-powered surveillance system mistook a crumpled chip bag in his pocket for a firearm. Within minutes, eight police cars…

Doritos, Drones, and Doubt: Baltimore’s AI Safety Experiment Just Pointed a Gun at Common Sense

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For Omnilert to Succeed, School Shootings Need to Continue

When a company that profits from school shootings publishes a report about how to stop them, you already know what’s not going to be on the list: getting rid of the guns. Omnilert’s new “School Shootings 2024” report reads like a self-congratulatory white paper from a corporation trying to sound like a public health agency. It lists every possible “solution” to school gun violence, including…

For Omnilert to Succeed, School Shootings Need to Continue

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AI software mistakes high school student's bag of chips for a weapon

Taki Allen was sitting outside Kenwood High School with friends, eating a bag of chips after football practice on Monday. Around 20 minutes