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.
the system “functioned as intended,” […] Baltimore County Public Schools echoed the company’s statement
“We want a system that sends armed cops primed to kill a black student”, says the community elected school board. “We believe that’s what our racist constituents want”, they continued.
From the image, it didn’t identify the Doritos as a gun. It was the wall’s bottom black paint at a corner that looked like a gun.This is such an interesting case of where malice and stupidity cross, because imagine being afraid of your students this much and being too stupid to know that a system like this would have false positives often. Imagine a tableau of probabilities:———————Is Gun | Not gun
Thinks gun | 0.95 | 0.005
Thinks not gun | 0.05 | 0.995
Seems good right?
Well, let’s say this system takes 100,000 pictures in a year. Let’s say we’re in a bad neighborhood and 10 separate pictures had a gun this year. So 99,990 pictures didn’t. Going by this table, only 9.5 out of 508.95 students will be correctly identified as threats. That’s is a false positive rate of 98%. To stupid people in power, this is the system “working as designed.” The false negative rate is decent. It ignores a gun in 0.5 pictures and ignores students in 99,490 pictures, so very close to 0.
Lmk if my math seems off
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.
Eating Doritos while black
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.
I think that’s a dramatization, based on the subtitle there
Edit:
This looks fake as fuck lol
I like the date and time, personally. We time travelers now?
I wonder how much the student will get in the lawsuit.
0 dollars. Police beat the shit out of students all the time
It’s unjust to force children and Teens to go to schools that use these creepy tools. They must be removed before a student gets killed by cops because of it
They’ll just say that kids getting shot by the cops is worth it to prevent kids shooting each other.
This is awful, but if we’re going to do futuristic dystopia, we should have more fun with it. Along those lines, it should have been a bag of Cheetos for being “dangerously cheesy.”
This infringement on civil rights brought to you by Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of Pepsi Co., and chewers like you.
This man’s crime? Still has Dorito dust on his fingers.
Cop: “That’s a crime in these parts.”
The actual dumbest timeline
I remember when Henrietta police did this with an umbrella. Didn’t even need AI.
You know that vintage meme you’d see hanging on pub walls: “drink coffee! Do stupid things faster and with more energy!”?
I guess ai surveillance is like that but for police ineptitude. Goody!
It kind of makes sense. Too much of that shit can kill you.
