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.
It’s shocking just how biased the third is despite sounding (relatively) reasonable and unbiased. But bias is the entire nature of AI, that’s the whole point: biasing a machine to transform and distill data to arrive at a desired output.
Really, the instant anything is made into a process with or without AI there’s bias, and it’s inescapable.