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.
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.”