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.

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    2 days ago

    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.

    ETA: I guess what I’m getting at is

    Because: Human behaviour can be fixed. With the right measurements, biased people/racists can be retrained or taken off-duty.

    is bias in and of itself