In Reply to: He doesn't want to hear about affordability. posted by mh on November 07, 2025 at 12:39:04
An artificial intelligence (AI) detection system at Kenwood High School mistakenly flagged a student’s bag of potato chips as a gun, triggering a police response.
The 16-year-old had finished eating a bag of Doritos and crumpled it up in his pocket when he was done. But the school’s AI-based gun detection system mistook the crumpled foil for a firearm.
Moments later, multiple police cars arrived with officers drawing their weapons, dramatically escalating what should have been a non-event.
The student recalls:
“Police showed up, like eight cop cars, and then they all came out with guns pointed at me talking about getting on the ground. I was putting my hands up like, ‘what’s going on?’ He told me to get on my knees and arrested me and put me in cuffs.”
Systems like these scan images or video feeds for the shape and appearance of weapons. They’re meant to reduce risk, but they’re only as good as the algorithms behind them and the human judgment that follows.
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It didn't exactly foil an attempted shooter.